The registration of J. S. Bach's organ works : a study of German organ-building and registration practices of the late baroque era / by Thomas Fredric Harmon.

Contents The German, French, and Italian organs at the end of the seventeenth century. Germany ; France ; Italy -- The German organ in the first half of the eighteenth century. Eugen Casparini ; Andreas and Gottfried Silbermann ; Zacharias Hildebrandt -- Organs associated with Bach. Youthful period ; Arnstadt ; Muhlhausen ; Weimar ; Cothen ; Leipzig ; The Bach organ ideal -- German registration practices at the time of Bach. Matthaeus Hertel ; Andreas Werckmeister ; Johann Mattheson ; Vincent Lubeck ; Janovka, Samber, and Vogt ; Johann Gottfried Walther ; Johann Friedrich Walther ; Daniel Magnus Gronau ; Gottfried Silbermann ; Johann Friedrich Agricola ; Jakob Adlung ; Christoph Gottlieb Schroter ; General trends -- Bach's registrations. Organo pleno ; A due claviere ; Specific manual indications ; Specific registration indications ; Dolce and cantabile ; Bach's orchestrations -- Modern performance. The music ; The organ -- Appendix. Organ specifications. Specifications for a large organ: Andreas Werckmeister ; Neuenfelde: kirche ; Hamburg: St. Jacobi ; Paris: St. Gervais ; Denno (in Trentino): village church ; Gorlitz: St. Peter and Paul ; Magdeburg: St. Johannis ; Freiberg: Domkirche ; Dresden: Sophienkirche ; Rotha: St. Georgenkirche ; Grosshartmannsdorf: kirche ; Stormthal bei Leipzig: Dorfkirche ; Naumburg: St. Wenzelskirche ; Eisenach: Hauptkirche zu St. Georgen ; Ohrdruf: St. Michaelis-kirche ; Luneburg: St. Michaelis-kirche ; Luneburg: St. Johannis-kirche ; Hamburg: St. Catharinen-kirche ; Arnstadt: neue kirche ; Lubeck: St. Marienkirche ; Muhlhausen: hauptkirche divi blasii ; Dresden: Frauenkirche ; Weimar: Schloss-kirche ; Halle: Kirche zu unsere lieben frauen ; Leipzig: Paulinerkirche ; Leipzig: Thomaskirche ; Leipzig: Nikolaikirche ; Leipzig: St. Johannis kirche ; Potsdam: Garnison-kirche ; Danzig: St. Johanniskirche.
Abstract This study correlates the transition in German organ-building principles of the early eighteenth century and the corresponding registration techniques of the composer-performers as a key to the enigmatic problem of stylistically authentic registration of the Bach organ works.
General noteAn authorized facsimile produced by microfilm xerography.
Dissertation notePh.D. Washington University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Music 1971.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 366-372).
Reproduction noteJoyner- Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International, 1979. 22 cm.

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