Organa Britannica: Organs in Great Britain 1660-1860 : a Complete Edition of the Sperling Notebooks and Drawings in the Library...
- ISBN-10
- 0838750435
- ISBN-13
- 9780838750438
- Category
- Organ (Musical instrument)
- Pages
- 1200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Author
- James Boeringer
Description
Divided into two parts, Organa Britannica provides in the first: a short history, a description of source material, a detailed glossary of terms, indexes of short and long biographies on organ builders and groups of organ builders, and a classification of species of organ cases by type. The second part provides a detailed inventory of early British organs, organized geographically. Illustrated.
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