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A book playing a large Gavioli fairground organ. Book music (French: Livre de musique) is a medium for storing the music played on mechanical organs, mainly of European manufacture. Book music is made from thick cardboard, containing perforated holes specifying the musical notes to be played, with the book folded zig-zag style.
Ethel Smith (born Ethel Goldsmith; November 22, 1902 [1] [2] – May 10, 1996) was an American organist who played primarily in a pop or Latin style on the Hammond organ.In the 1940s, she had founded the Ethel Smith Music Corporation for the publication of songs sheets.
Brimhall is perhaps best known for his easy arrangements of classical and American popular music for piano students. He studied at Loyola University, the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. [1] Brimhall is thought to be the most published arranger of printed music in history, [2] having sold over 75 million copies of over 500 ...
Virgil Fox. Virgil Keel Fox (May 3, 1912 in Princeton, Illinois – October 25, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach in the 1970s, staged complete with light shows. [1]
The Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644 is a set of 46 chorale preludes for organ – one of them is given in two versions – by Johann Sebastian Bach. All but three were written between 1708 and 1717 when Bach served as organist to the ducal court in Weimar ; the remainder and a short two-bar fragment came no earlier than 1726 ...
Songbook (Nick Hornby book) Songs in the Key of Z; Songs of Praise (hymnal) The Songs of the Tyne by Walker; Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand; Sounds Like London; A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story; Space Opera (1996 anthology) Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music; The Stereo Record Guide; The Story of ...
In France, baroque organ music (referred to as French classical music, despite being from the Baroque period) was almost exclusively liturgical in nature and composed and performed in a very systemized manner. In addition, the organs were built along standardized lines. The compositions were smaller scale compared with those in other countries.
Andante (Prelude) in D minor for organ, WAB 126/2 (c. 1846) Prelude in E flat major for organ, WAB 127 (c. 1835, doubtful authorship, possibly by Johann Baptist Weiss) Four Preludes in E flat major for organ, WAB 128 (c. 1835, doubtful authorship, possibly by Johann Baptist Weiss) Prelude (Perger Präludium) in C major for organ, WAB 129 (1884)