Complete Organ Method: A Classic Text on Organ Technique Contributor(s): Stainer, John (Author), Harker, F. Flaxington (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486430790 ISBN-13: 9780486430799 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $16.11 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Stainer's classic beginner's method was so popular that Schirmer, Ditson, and Presser each published its own edition within two years of each other! Of the competing American editions, it is the 1909 Schirmer edition prepared by F.Flaxington Harker--retained in the present Dover reprint--that has the best graphics. In addition to rudimentary exercises, Stainer has included a history of the organ and an explanation of the mechanics of its design, supplemented by fine illustrations throughout. Slightly abridged republication of the 1909 edition by G. Schirmer, New York. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Musical Instruments - Piano & Keyboard - Music | Instruction & Study - Exercises - Music | Instruction & Study - Techniques |
Dewey: 786.507 |
Series: Dover Books on Music |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 8.96" W x 11.84" (0.86 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Sir John Stainer is remembered today as a pioneer of English musicology. Beyond his duties as organist of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, he was a founder and president of the Musical Association, professor of music at Oxford, vice president of the Royal College of Organists, and later president of both the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society and the London Gregorian Association. |