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THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ORGAN STUDIES
BIOS Journal Contents List
All back issues of BIOS Journal are available from Positif
Press, Oxford, at the reduced rates for BIOS Members shown
below.
Contents of Volumes 1–27 are as follows:
BIOS Journal, Volume 1, 1977 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by Michael Sayer
The English Organ Archive
Preliminary list of material deposited
The organs of the Lincolns
James Boeringer
Of Tombstones, Files and Coelacanths…
Bernard Edmonds
Thomas Wilkinson of Kendal and the organ in Preston Public Hall
Gerald Sumner
The Disley Renn: an essay in investigation
David Wickens
Organ Design for the English Liturgy
Nicholas Danby
Robert Dallam’s organ in York Minster, 1634
Michael Sayer
Organ and liturgy: the organs in St Joseph’s Church, Keighley and the
Church of the Sacred Heart, Henley-on-Thames
John Rowntree
Source-materials from the early 19th Century
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Two Flight & Robson barrel organs
Nicholas Plumley
BIOS Journal, Volume 2, 1978 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Digitus Dei Hoc: the organ and the English Church in the era of Smith
and Harris
Peter Williams
Bernard Smith (c.1629-1708) organist and organbuilder, his origins
John Rowntree
A note on the Smith four-tower organ-cases
Michael Gillingham
Organo Pneumatico: the construction and design of Bernard Smith’s organ
for the University Church, Cambridge, 1698
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Organ advisory work in the Anglican Communion. Some developments in recent
years in the North East
Donald Wright
Organs of St James’s Church, Poole, and the Goss family
Betty Matthews
The restoration of the organ in Sydney Town Hall
David Kinsela
Elgar’s Organ Sonata in G (op. 28): a study of the manuscript sources
and original interpretation
Christopher Kent
Notes: The organ case in Holsworthy Church (John Speller)
An early organ-maker’s will (Betty Matthews)
Book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 3, 1979 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by Nicholas Plumley
Organ Reform in England – some influences
John Rowntree
Towards an indigenous classical organ design
Martin Renshaw
The reform of the reform
Joseph von Glatter-Götz
Main roads to the modern Dutch organ
Meindert van der Galien
The new Organ Revival in Denmark
Ole Olesen
The well-tuned organ. An introduction to keyboard temperaments in 18th and
19th-century England
Alexander Mackenzie of Ord
A trial of unequal temperaments on the organ
C. A. Padgham, P. D. Collins and C. K. Parker
Colonial organs: being an account of some early English instruments exported
to the Eastern United States
Barbara Owen
The Harris/Byfield connection: some recent findings
Nicholas Plumley
Notes:
A lost organ case (Bernard Edmonds)
The Dallam family (Bernard Edmonds)
Book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 4, 1980 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by John Rowntree
The Englishness of the English organ case, some thoughts on organ case design
in England, 16601800
Nicholas Plumley
The Chayre Organ, an episode
Bernard Edmonds
An early 17th-century British organ, a preliminary study
Martin Renshaw
Organs of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Robert Pacey
The Samuel Green organ at Heaton Hall
David Wickens
“… an Honest Organ”
John Rowntree
The challenge of the classical organ, an organ teacher’s point of view
John Wellingham
J. C. Bishop, Ushaw College and the Lancashire Catholics.
Part 1, historical aspects
Gerald Sumner
English organ design in the Industrial Revolution
Michael Sayer
The Sixth International Organ Week, Bruges, 1979
John Brennan
Provincial and unscientific remarks by the organbuilder
Joseph von Glatter-Götz
New organs: Christ Church, Oxford; Trinity College, Cambridge; Paddington Green,
London
Note: The organ in Trinity College, Oxford (John Speller)
Book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 5, 1981 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by John Rowntree
English organ-building, 16421685
Stephen Bicknell
John Loosemore
Bernard Edmonds
Organ music in parish churches, 16601730
Nicholas Temperley
Notes relating to the organization of organ-building in England, to c.1740
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
The preservation of a national heritage, Australia’s historic organs
John Maidment
J. C. Bishop, Ushaw College and the Lancashire Catholics.
Part 2, the organs
Gerald Sumner
An introduction to Brice and Richard Seede: organbuilders of Bristol
Christopher Kent
The Sack…or one organ in search of a builder… Some notes on the
1708 organ in Pembroke College, Cambridge
John Rowntree
New organs:
Pembroke College, Cambridge; University College School, London;
Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Reports, book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 6, 1982 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by James Berrow
The organ-builder as artist – opportunities and constraints
Ian Bell
Technique – a key to interpretation
Sheila Lawrence
Training organists in Holland
Stephen Taylor
The classical organ in Australia, its influence on teaching
Douglas Lawrence and John Maidment
A question of touch
Peter Collins
The organ in Wollaton Hall
Stephen Bicknell
Ancient British organs
Bernard Edmonds
The Dallams in Brittany
Michel Cocheril
Attitudes to musical instrument conservation and restoration
Grant O’Brien
Sir John Dykes Bower, 19051981
Michael Gillingham
Restoration:
The Grove organ, Tewkesbury Abbey
New organs:
Newcastle R.C. Cathedral; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge;
Robinson College, Cambridge
Reports, book & music reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 7, 1983 (Members’ rate £7.50)
editorial committee
John Blow and the earliest English Cornet Voluntaries
Geoffrey Cox
Spanish Netherlands keyboard music, 15961633
Richard Vendome
Bach, Mendelssohn and the English organist: 181045
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
The Choir Organ in the Kristine Church, Falun
Mats Åberg and Herwin Troje
Thomas Haxby of York (1729-96) an extraordinary musician and musical instrument
maker
David Haxby and John Malden
Thomas Haxby and the organ of Louth Parish Church, 17679
C. J. Sturman and J. C. Pillans
‘Queen’s’ and after… some thoughts on the Organ Revival
in Britain
John Rowntree
Some aspects of mid-nineteenth-century organ case design and organ position
James Berrow
Rebuilt organs: Peterborough Cathedral;
Ludlow Parish Church
New organs: Merchant Taylor’s School, Northwood;
St Mary the Virgin, Putney
Restored organs: St Albans Church, Macclesfield
Book reviews, music reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 8, 1984 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Yorkshire organ-builders of the nineteenth century
Bernard Edmonds
A Victorian export to Australia: the Brindley organ in the Albert Hall, Launceston,
Tasmania
John Stiller
W. T. Best as consultant
Cecil Clutton
Sir Frederick Ouseley (18251889)
Christopher Kent
The origins of the Dallams in Lancashire
Gerald Sumner
The Dallams and the Harrises
Betty Matthews
Preserving the heritage: the problems of redundant organs
Marilyn Wilson
German organ building in the nineteenth century
Werner Walcker-Mayer and Reinhard Raue
‘Queen’s and after…’ from the other side of the stop
knobs
Peter Collins
Rebuilt organ: Christ’s College, Cambridge
New organs: All Saints Church, Northampton;
St John’s Church, Totnes
Notes:
The Orgelfuss and the Orgelstuhl (Susi Jeans)
Repairs to the organ in Chichester Cathedral, 16023
(Alison McCann)
Report, book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 9, 1985 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by John Rowntree
The English pre-Reformation liturgical organ repertory
Patrick Russill
Organ music by William Byrd (1542/31623)
Richard Turbet
The organ in Britain before 1600 – some observations
Stephen Bicknell
Yorkshire organ-builders: the earlier years
Bernard Edmonds
The Dallam organ in Magdalen College, Oxford, a new account of the Milton organ
John Harper
Organ pitch in seventeenth-century England
Dominic Gwynn
The transposing organ
Stephen Bicknell
Phrasing and articulation in organ music of the High Baroque
Peter le Huray
New organs: Oundle School Chapel; All Saints, Friern
Barnet; St Peter Mancroft, Norwich
Book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 10, 1986 (Members’ rate £7.50)
edited by Stephen Bicknell
BIOS – The first ten years
Donald Wright
John Abbey, organ-builder, his work in France (1)
Jean-Albert Villard
Formative influences on Sweelinck’s keyboard style: preliminary outline
of a case for re-assessment
Martin Souter
Organ preservation and scholarship in the United States
John Ogasapian
The organ in the Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass
Fritz Noack and Richard Jones
The Normans 18601920
Herbert Norman
Some notes on the organ in Adlington Hall
John Mander
A neglected late-eighteenth-century organ treatise
Philip Sawyer
A heritage in perspective – a study of New Zealand’s historic pipe
organs
Michael Cox
Thomas Dallam at Norwich Cathedral
Betty Matthews
Note: The versatility of George Ashdown Audsley
(18381925) (R. Huby)
New and rebuilt organs:
South Lancing Church, Sussex; Chichester Cathedral
Book reviews, recent recordings and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 11, 1987 (Members’ rate £8.00)
edited by Christopher Kent
The organ of St. Mary’s Chapel, Lulworth Castle:
An introduction to the restoration
Donald Wright
An historical survey
Christopher Kent
An appreciation of the organ case at Lulworth
Michael Gillingham
The early music of the Chapel and its relationship to the organ
John Rowntree
The Donaldson organ in the Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Stephen Bicknell
Wotton, the organmaker of Lambert Simnel fame: was he William
or Thomas?
Susi Jeans
Parish church organs: the interaction of design, liturgy and management
Peter Marr
Christian Smith and the organ of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey
Betty Matthews
The Duke of Wellington’s funeral: a chapter in the history of the organs
of St Paul’s Cathedral
Austin Niland
Note: Tenbury MS.1467: the notebook of the Revd
Leighton G. Hayne (Christopher Kent)
New and restored organs:
St Andrew’s & St George’s Church, Edinburgh;
Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire; Richard Seede
chamber organ in Pamber Priory, Hants.
Music reviews
BIOS Journal, Volume 12, 1988 (Members’ rate £8.00)
edited by Nicholas Plumley
Problems in the preservation and restoration of organs
Alfred Reichling
Reviving the classical organ-building tradition in Britain
Dominic Gwynn
John Abbey, organ-builder, his work in France (2)
Jean-Albert Villard
Organbuilding between reconstruction and new construction
Hans Gerd Klais
‘A sweet pretty instrument’ – Sir Samuel Hellier’s
obsession
Percy Young
Thomas Elliot, organ-builder, Part one: historical,
Part two: the instruments
Bernard Edmonds and Nicholas Plumley
GG compass pedals and the British organ repertoire before c.1850
Christopher Kent
New organs:
The City of London School; Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford
Book reviews, letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 13, 1989 (Members’ rate £8.00)
edited by Philip Sawyer
The organ in nineteenth-century Scotland
Jim Inglis
The introduction of new organ stops in English organ-building in the 18th and
19th centuries. (Part one)
David Wickens
A revolution in registration – Marsh to Mendelssohn:
a view of English organ music 17881847
Christopher Kent
The organ music of William Russell, an anticipation of the romantic organ
Gillian Ward Russell
Rose Yard
Bernard Edmonds
The organ of St Andrew’s, Holborn
Betty Matthews
The National Pipe Organ Register – recent developments
Margaret Wright and Donald Wright
Australia’s multi-cultural organ heritage – 200 years of organ
imports
John Maidment
‘Anon’ organs – their identification by style recognition and
comparison
Graeme Rushworth
The organ in St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, 186673
Richard Walsh
Building a classical English organ
Dominic Gwynn
New organ: The Anglican Church, The Hague, Holland
Music reviews
BIOS Journal, Volume 14, 1990 (Members’ rate £8.50)
edited by Richard Hobson
Magdalen College MS 347: an index and commentary
Francis Knights
Possible textural and thematic references in J. S. Bach’s Fugue in E
flat, BWV 552
Philip Sawyer
The Organ Concertos of J. S. Bach, their origins and legitimacy
Ralph Schureck
Tuning and temperament and the British organ 1750–1850: a century of
change viewed through the repertoire
Christopher Kent
The development of bellows systems in British organs, c.9901790
Dominic Gwynn
Dr. Edward Hodges of Bristol and New York: an “organ expert” on
both sides of the Atlantic
Barbara Owen
A passage-board to India
James Berrow
Preston Public Hall – a new lease of life for the 1882 organ by Thomas
Wilkinson?
Donald Wright and Gerald Sumner
New organs:
St. Andrew’s, Holborn; St. Matthew’s, Westminster;
Oriel College Chapel, Oxford; Mill Hill School Chapel;
St. Oswald’s Church, Durham; St. Albans I.O.F. organ;
St. Marylebone Parish Church
Book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 15, 1991 (Members’ rate £8.50)
edited by Stuart Campbell
The Hamiltons of Edinburgh, a preliminary investigation
Alan Buchan
The introduction of new organ stops in English organ-building in the 18th and
19th centuries. (Part two – 1850 to 1870)
David Wickens
The builders of Scotland’s organs – a survey
Jim Inglis
‘Cant Organe’: a lost technique?
Isobel Woods Preece
The restoration of historic organs in the Netherlands
Jan Jongepier and Kenneth Walton
Grosvenor Chapel and the 18th-century English organ
Mark Lindley and William Drake
New organs:
New organs in and around Edinburgh;
Fairmilehead Parish Church, Edinburgh;
St. Mary’s Church, Haddington; Dunblane Cathedral
Book reviews and music reviews
BIOS Journal, Volume 16, 1992 (Members’ rate £8.50)
edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Obituary: Peter le Huray, 1930–1992
Organ pitch and organ accompaniments in Elizabethan and Jacobean church music
Peter le Huray
‘The psalms set full for the organ’ by John Reading
David Burchell
Organ or orphanage? Religious controversy surrounding the rôle of organ
music in German Lutheran worship in the Baroque era
Geoffrey Webber
Organ and liturgy – 1992
John Rowntree
Young Mr Newton and the overblown pipe
John Mainstone
The Hill-Gauntlett Revolution: an epitaph?
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Lulworth Castle Chapel organ:
1) The reconstruction of the organ
William Drake
2) Some reflections
John Rowntree
The G. P. England organ at Blandford Forum
David Wickens
Buckingham restor’d
Peter Bumstead
Charles Quarles: some notes
B. B. Edmonds
New organs:
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1
Great St Mary’s, Cambridge
Book & music reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 17, 1993 (Members’ rate £9.00)
edited by Christopher Kent
Brice Seede, organbuilder of Bristol: some further findings
Christopher Kent
The development of English key actions up to 1800
Dominic Gwynn
Plagiarism or emulation: the Gerard Smith organ contract for St George’s
Church, Hanover Square
Richard Platt
An apparently controversial instrument
Relf Clark
Evans & Barr Ltd., a worthy legacy of Ulster organbuilding
Joseph McKee
The organ in St George’s Church, Hanworth – a late-nineteenth-century
Hill
Clifford Embleton
Some thoughts on communication
Stephen Taylor
Samuel Wesley’s contribution to the development of English organ literature
Robin Langley
Parry’s Chorale Fantasia: ‘When I survey the Wonderous Cross’
Jeremy Dibble
Traveller’s tales
Betty Matthews
Music reviews, book reviews and letters to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 18, 1994 (Members’ rate £9.00)
edited by Relf Clark
Introduction
Relf Clark
Stephen Taylor & Sons, organ-builders of Leicester
B. B. Edmonds
Reflections on the tonal ideas of Arthur Harrison and how he achieved them
David C. Wickens
Arthur Harrison, R. Meyrick Roberts, George Dixon and the remodelling of the
Durham Cathedral organ in 1904/5
Richard Hird
Two concert organs
Mark Venning
The organ of St George’s Church, Worcester in the early life of Edward
Elgar
Christopher Kent
The French influence in High Victorian Lancashire
Gerald Sumner
Transcriptions
Relf Clark
Another Worcestershire organ-builder and the organ of All Saints’ Church,
the Parish of Malvern Wells and Wyche, Malvern, Worcestershire
James Berrow
Stanford and the organ recitals at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1872–1890:
a documentary study
Jeremy Dibble
Letters to the editor, book reviews and music review
BIOS Journal, Volume 19, 1995 (Members’ rate £9.00)
edited by James Berrow and Dominic Gwynn
A tale from two cities: John Nicholson of Worcester,
Manchester Cathedral and Ouseley, 1861
James Berrow
The English Trumpet Voluntary at the time of Henry Purcell
Geoffrey Cox
The Haywards of Bath
Betty Matthews
Organs associated with Handel’s visit to Dublin
Brian Boydell
St Michan’s Church, Dublin: the installation of the organ in 1725 and
the duties of the organist
Barra Boydell
Carrying on ancient traditions: the work of Thomas Hill 1870–1893
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
The development of English reeds, from Robert Dallam to John Gray
Dominic Gwynn
Joseph Hart – A Suffolk organ-builder
Peter Bumstead
Obituary: Stephen Dykes Bower, 1903–1994
James Berrow
Book reviews
BIOS Journal, Volume 20, 1995 (Members’ rate £9.50)
edited by John Brennan
Introduction from the Publisher
John Brennan
The screen organs in Peterborough Cathedral, 1660–1870
C. H. Davidson
Gothic and Renaissance: organ cases by Frederick Sutton and G. F. Bodley at
Hoar Cross and Temple Newsam
Michael Hall
Restoring the Dallam organs in Brittany
Michel Cocheril
Before the First Lesson: A study of some Eighteenth-Century Voluntaries in
relation to the instruments on which they were played
John L. Speller
George Dixon; a reappraisal
Relf Clark
The eighteenth-century English organ and the collective psyche: a vehicle for
national ideals
Pierre Dubois
The Organ-builder and the Organist: Thomas Elliot and Samuel Wesley
Philip Olleson
Contemporary organ design in Spain
Simon Platt
A conversation with Nicholas Danby
John Brennan
Book reviews, music review and letter to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 21, 1997 (Members’ rate £9.50)
edited by Dominic Gwynn
Organs in Ely Cathedral before 1851
José Hopkins
Organ-building in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dublin, and its English
connection
Denise M. Neary
Chirk Castle Organ and Organbook: an insight into performance practice involving
a seventeenth-century ‘transposing’ organ
William Reynolds
Dean Bargrave’s organ at Canterbury
James Collier
The Battle of the Organs, the Smith organ at The Temple and its organist
David Knight
A description of the organ from the eighteenth century, in William Emerson’s
Principles of Mechanics of 1758
Dominic Gwynn
‘The Perfection of Harmony Itself’: the William Hawkes Patent Organ
and its temperament
Philip Olleson
Mills of Albion: large Russell organs of the 1820s
Martin Renshaw
Early nineteenth-century Scottish chamber organs: pipe markings and other identifiers
Alan Buchan
Book reviews
The 1996 ISO Congress and GdO conference, and related
articles in the ISO Yearbook and Ars Organi
Dominic Gwynn
BIOS Journal, Volume 22, 1998 (Members’ rate £9.50)
edited by James Berrow
BIOS Journal Contributors, 1998
‘The Highest Style of Art.’ An introduction to the life and legacy
of
T. C. Lewis (1833–1915)
Christopher Gray
Some reflections on small organ design, 1855–1949
Relf Clark
The Shrider organ from Westminster Abbey: Lord Thynne, organ donor?
David Knight
A study of English organ pipe scaling
David C. Wickens
The George Pike England organ in the Church of Nossa Senhora do Monte, Island
of Madeira
Christopher Kent
‘A organ should be An Organ’: Samuel Sebastian Wesley and the organ
in St George’s Hall, Liverpool
Peter Horton
The notorious Dr Rimbault (1816–1876)
Percy Young
Henry Philip Dicker, organ-builder
Nigel Browne
Book reviews, historical recordings and letter to the editor
BIOS Journal, Volume 23, 1999 (Members’ rate £10)
edited by Relf Clark
Editorial
Relf Clark
The organ in St Helen’s Abingdon: twentieth-century events
David C. Wickens
The influence of the Baroque Revival on the work of Hill, Norman &
Beard, 1950–1974
John Norman
A survey of the work of John Compton (1874–1957)
Ian Bell
The Westminster Abbey organ in the twentieth century
David Knight
The British neo-classical organ and its music – time for a reappraisal?
Andrew McCrea
Harrisons’ great adventure
Mark Venning
Carlton Cumberbatch Michell – a sketch
Stephen Bicknell
The performance chronicles of Hubert Walter Hunt
Christopher Kent
St Bees revisited
Relf Clark
Book and CD reviews
Notes for contributors
Guidance for those writing for the Journal, compiled by
Relf Clark, Andrew McCrea and John Brennan
BIOS Journal, Volume 24, 2000 (Members’ rate £10)
edited by Relf Clark
Editorial
Alan Buchan
A musical apparatus of somewhat complex and intricate mechanism
Christopher D. S. Field
The organs of St Cecilia’s Hall, University of Edinburgh
John Kitchen
The 1843 Hill organ of the Music Hall, Edinburgh from contemporary local sources
Playing and studying Bach – where next?
Peter Williams
Some developments in church music in NE Scotland, from 1700 to 1880
David Welch
The organ at St Stephen’s, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
Richard J. Morton
In search of a grandfather, Thomas William Lewis 1863–1942: organ- builder
and author
Yvonne Carnill-Lewis
James Bruce of Edinburgh
Alan Buchan
Book Reviews
Relf Clark and Daniel Moult
Notes for contributors
Guidance for those writing for the Journal, compiled by
Relf Clark, Andrew McCrea and John Brennan
BIOS Journal, Volume 25, 2001 (Members’ rate £10)
edited by William McVicker
Editorial
William McVicker
The early career of J. C. Bishop, organ-builder, 1807–29
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
The restoration of the 1829 J. C. Bishop organ at St James’s, Bermondsey
Dominic Gwynn
Some significant dates in the history of St James’s, Bermondsey, and
its organ
John Bowles
The role of the Pedals in the accompaniment of English Hymnody,
1810–1860
David Burchell
A note on Thomas Adams and his showroom demonstrations
Andrew McCrea
The Swell pedal and sforzando in the latter half of the nineteenth century
William McVicker and Gerald Sumner
The John Reading manuscripts of Dulwich College
John Carnelley
Who built the organ for the Sultan?
Greg Bak
Benjamin R. Grindrod and the Tubeon
Nigel Stark
Book reviews
Letters to the Editor
Notes for contributors
BIOS Journal, Volume 26, 2002 (Members’ rate £10)
edited by Nigel Browne and Alastair Johnston
A brief for the Symphonic Organ
Jack M. Bethards
The Art of Organ Transcription – ethos and practicalities: some thoughts
David Briggs
The Organ, Academia, and the Future
Thomas Murray
The Testament of Theresa Willis
Stephen Bicknell
William John Grant
Alastair Johnston
Thomas Casson, a mere introduction
Relf Clark
Organ-builder history from fire insurance policies
Joan Jeffery
John Garth, the galant organ voluntary, etc.
Geoffrey Brown
Documents relating to three organs in Lichfield Cathedral
Martin Renshaw
Book reviews
Letters to the Editor
Notes for contributors
Guidance for those writing for the Journal, compiled by
Relf Clark, Andrew McCrea and John Brennan
BIOS Journal, Volume 27, 2003 (Members’ rate £10)
edited by David Ponsford
Editorial
David Ponsford
Towards a revised canon for the organ works of J.S. Bach
David Humphreys
Mirrors of Eternity: Genre, Affekt and Emblem in
Buxtehude’s Te Deum laudamus
Michael Griffiths
Towards a reappraisal of François Couperin’s organ masses
David Ponsford
The use of Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Chorales in English
Organ Music of the Nineteenth Century
Graham Barber
The adoption of Equal-Temperament Tuning – A performer’s imperative
or a fashionable fad?
Alexander Mackenzie of Ord
Islington Tenders
Joan Jeffery
The Bureau Organ in St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, Some initial notes
John Rowntree
The Reverend B.B. Edmonds, 1910–2003
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Book, Music and CD Reviews
Letters to the Editor
Notes for contributors
Guidance for those writing for the Journal, compiled by
Relf Clark, Andrew McCrea and John Brennan
BIOS Journal Complete Index for Volumes 1 to 15
compiled by Michael Popkin
In five sections: Locations, Organbuilders, Subjects,
People (non-organbuilders) and Authors.
(96 pages, price: £8.50)
BIOS Journal Complete Index for Volumes 16 to 25
compiled by Michael Popkin
In five sections: Locations, Organbuilders, Subjects,
People (non-organbuilders) and Authors.
(80 pages, price: £8.50)
Other publications containing ‘Journal-like’ essays:
ASPECTS OF KEYBOARD MUSIC (Price £14.95)
Essays in Honour of Susi Jeans
Edited by Robert Judd
The first edition of this Festschrift (in typescript form) was presented to
Lady Jeans on the occasion of her 75th birthday. It is a collection of twelve
essays by friends, colleagues and former pupils, many of whom are members of
BIOS and have regularly contributed to the BIOS Journal. Like the BIOS Journal,
it covers a wide range of topics related to the organ and its music.
The contents are as follows:
The Influence of Susi Jeans
Cecil Clutton
Dom Bedos, Engramelle, and Performance Practice
Peter le Huray
The English Beat
H. Diack Johnstone
J. S. Bach and the Livre d’Orgue of Nicolas de Grigny
Christopher Kent
The Organ Works of Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber
Hugh J. McLean
Michigan’s Klingendes Wunder: the Fisk re-creation of a Silbermann organ
at the University of Michigan
Marilyn Mason
Thomas Swarbrick – the end of a line
Betty Matthews
A new completion for Bach’s unfinished Fugue BWV 906/2
Davitt Moroney
The 18th-Century British Keyboard Concerto after Handel
Timothy J. Rishton
Continuo accompaniment for full voices: some explanations and difficulties
in the music of Peter Philips
John Steele
Oxford, Christ Church Mus.MS.89: Techniques of Verset Composition
Richard Vendome
How did the Organ come to be a Church Instrument? Further questions about music
and the Church of Rome
Peter Williams
Bibliography of the Publications of Susi Jeans
compiled by Guy Oldham
Paperback edition, 190pp, illustrated, format 155 x 220 mm
Price £14.95 (plus 90p postage)
FANFARE FOR AN ORGAN-BUILDER (Price £21.95)
Essays presented to Noel Mander to celebrate
the sixtieth anniversary of his commencement
in business as an organ-builder
Edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
‘It is with great pleasure that I commend this volume of essays in honour
of Noel Mander. I ask that he will accept them as a token of the respect, affection
and esteem that we all, writers and readers, have for him and his achievements.’
Christopher Dearnley,
Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, London
1968 to 1990
The contents are as follows:
Foreword
Christopher Dearnley
A conversation with Noel Mander
Ian Bell
Noel Mander – some personal memories
Michael Gillingham
Things new and old: the work of N. P. Mander Ltd, 1945–1983
Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Wren, Smith and the Box of Whistles story
Austin Niland
Attitudes to old organs in the British Isles – a short account
Stephen Bicknell
The sixteenth-century English organ repertoire, reviewed in the light of the
Suffolk fragments
Christopher Kent
An Elliot organ in Boston, Massachusetts
Barbara Owen
The early chamber organs of Joseph William Walker
Nicholas Plumley
Retrospect: an extemporisation
B. B. Edmonds
Paperback edition with full-colour cover, 168pp,
84 illustrations, format: 170 x 240 mm.
Price £21.95 (plus 95p postage)
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