A collection of twelve essays by colleagues and former pupils covering a wide range of topics related to the organ and its music. The first edition of this Festschrift, in typescript form, was presented to Lady Jeans on the occasion of her 75th birthday, and the book was published just before her death in 1993.
The contents are as follows:
The Influence of Susi Jeans by Cecil Clutton
Dom Bedos, Engramelle, and Performance Practice by Peter le Huray
The English Beat by H. Diack Johnstone
J. S. Bach and the Livre d’Orgue of Nicolas de Grigny by Christopher Kent
The Organ Works of Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber by Hugh J. McLean
Michigan’s Klingendes Wunder: the Fisk re-creation of a Silbermann organ at the University of Michigan by Marilyn Mason
Thomas Swarbrick – the end of a line by Betty Matthews
A new completion for Bach’s unfinished Fugue BWV 906/2 by Davitt Moroney
The 18th-Century British Keyboard Concerto after Handel by Timothy J. Rishton
Continuo accompaniment for full voices: some explanations and difficulties in the music of Peter Philips by John Steele
Oxford, Christ Church Mus. MS.89: Techniques of Verset Composition by Richard Vendome
How did the Organ come to be a Church Instrument? Further questions about music and the Church of Rome by Peter Williams
Bibliography of the Publications of Susi Jeans compiled by Guy Oldham