BIBLIOGRAPHY (adapted from the American Institute of Organbuilder's bibliography)
Titles in red are suggested starters.
Adelung, Wolfgang, Organs of Our Time, Barenreiter, Kasel, 1972Andersen, P.G., Organ Building and Design, Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1969
* Audsley, G.A., The Art of Organbuilding, Dover, 1965 <-- Two large tomes, heavy reading but a classic work.
Barnes, Wm. H., The Contemporary American Organ, Carl Fischer, N.Y., <--- A classic work, and more practical.Barnes, Wm. H., Two Centuries of American Organbuilding, J. Fischer, 1970
Bedos de Celles (see Ferguson)
Bicknell, Stephen, History of the English Organ, 1996
Biggs, E. Power, The Organ in Sight and Sound (record and booklet) <--- Very likely out-of-print, but it might be possible to find it used or in a library. Very enjoyable.
Blanchard, Homer, Organs of Our Time, Praestant Press, 1982
Blanchard, Homer, The Bach Organ Book, Praestant Press, 1985
Blanton, J.E., The Organ in Church Design, Venture Press, Albany, TX, 1957
Blanton, J.E., The Revival of the Organ Case, Venture Press, Albany, TX, 1965
Bolt-Beranek-Newman, Acoustics
Bonavia-Hunt, Rev. Noel A., Modern Organ Stops, London Musical
Bonavia-Hunt, Rev. Noel A., The Organ Reed, J. Fischer, 1950
Bunjes, P.G., The Praetorius Organ, Concordia, St. Louis, 1966
Callahan, Chas., The American Classic Organ, A History in Letters, OHS, 1990Callahan, Chas., AeolianSkinner Remembered, 1996
Clutton, C., The British Organ
Culver, Musical Acoustics, McGrawHill, 1956
Döhnert, Ulrich, Die Orgeln G. Silbermanns in MitteldeutchlandDavy, Robt., The Organ of St. Etienne Abbey in Caen, Glatter-Götz, 1985
Donahue, T., The Modern Classical Organ, McFarland & Co., 1991
Douglass, Fenner, CavailléColl and the Musicians, Vol. I
Douglass, Fenner, The Language of the Classical French Organ, 1995
Egan, W. David, Architectural Acoustics, McGrawHill, 1988Ellerhorst, W., Handbuch Der Orgelkunde, Frits Knuf, Hilversum, 1966
Ferguson, Chas., The Organ Builder, English translation of Bedos, L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues, 17768 (1977); Vol. 1 complete text; Vol. 2 137 platesFerguson, J.A., Walter Holtkamp, American Organ Builder, Kent SU Press,1979
Fesperman, John, Two Essays on Organ Design, Sunbury, 1975
Fock, G., Arp Schitger und Seine Schule, Org. Lit. Foundation, 1974
Fox, David H., Robert HopeJones, OHS, 1992
Frank, Gerald, Johann Traugott Wandke, Boston Organ Club, 1990
Goebel, Jos., Theorie und Praxis des Orgelpfeifenklanges, Verlag das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt, 1967* Goode, Jack, Pipe Organ Registration, Abingdon, 1964 <---A good starter book about organ stops, stop nomenclature, and the basics of registration.
Grout, Donald A., A History of Western Music, W.W. Norton, N.Y., 1960
Harp, David, Music Theory Made Easy, Musical Idiot Press, 1999Harrison, G. Donald, King of Instruments, Vol. I (recording), Aeolian Skinner <--- Definitely out-of-print, the entire series of recordings might be obtainable used or from a library. A *must hear*... if you can find them.
Helmholtz, Herman, On the Sensations of Tone, Dover reprint, 1964
Hill, Arthur G., The Organ Cases of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Frits Knuf, Hilversum, 1966
Hopkins-Rimbault, The Organ, Frits Knuf, Hilversum, 1965
Isacoff, Stuart, Temperament, A. Knopf, 2001ISO Information (periodical), International Society of Organbuilders, Lauffen/Neckar, Germany, 1970 (199195 ISO News and Yearbook, now ISO Journal)
Jameson, J.B., Organ Design and Appraisal, H.W. Gray, N.Y., 1959Jorgensen, Owen, EqualBeating Temperaments, 1981
Jorgensen, Owen, Tuning, MSU, 1991
Junchen, D.A., Encyclopedia of the American Theater Organ, 3 vols., Showcase Publications, 1985, 1989, 199?
Kaufmann, Walter, Der Orgelprospect, 1949Keller, H., The Organ Works of Bach, C.F. Peters, N.Y., 1967
Klais, Hans G., The Organs in Wurzburg Cathedral, 1970
Klais, Hans. G., The Organ Stoplist, Praestant Press, 1975
* Klotz, Hans, The Organ Handbook, Concordia, 1969 <--- A very interesting, but technical, small book on the pipe organ.
Klotz, Hans, Uber die Orgelkunst der Gotik, der Renaissance, 1975
Knutsen-Harris, Acoustical Designing in Architecture, Wiley, N.Y., 1956
* Krapf, Gerhard, Werckmeister in English (1698), Sunbury, Raleigh, 1976 <---Translation of a historic treatise on the design, examination, and testing of pipe organs.
Lottemoser, W. & Meyer, J., OrgelAkustik, Verlag das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt, 1966
Mahrenholz, C., Die Orgel Register, Barenreiter, Kassel, 1968Mahrenholz, C., The Calculation of Organ Pipe Scales (English), Positif Press, 1975
Monette, L.G., The Art of Organ Voicing, Western Mich. U. Press, 1992
Ochse, Orpha, The History of the Organ in the United States, Indiana U. Press, Bloomington, 1975 <---An excellent starting point for learning the history of pipe organs in the USA.Ogasapian, John, Portrait of a 19thCentury American Organbuilder (Erben), 1980
Oosterhof and Boumann, Orgelbouwkunde, SMD, Leiden, 1971
Owen, Barbara J., The Organ in New England, Sunbury Press, 1979
Pape, Uwe, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, Pape Verlag, Berlin, 1977?Piltingsrud, H., Aging of Organ Leather, OHS, 1994
Pogue, David, Classical Music for Dummies, Hungry Minds, 1997
Reinburg, Peggy K., Arp Schitger, Organ Builder, Indiana, 1982Rensch, Richard, Scaling Slide Rule for Organ Pipes, 1986
Riedel, Scot, Acoustics in Worship Spaces, 1986
Robertson, R.E., A Practical Treatise on Organbuilding (1897), Organ Literature Foundation reprint
Schlick, Arnolt, Spiegel der Orgelmacher und OrganistenSchweitzer, A., Organ Building and Organ Playing in France and Germany, 1906
Seidel, J., Orgel und ihr Bau, 1853
Skinner, E.M., The Composition of the Organ, Melvin J. Light, Ann Arbor, 1981
Skinner, E.M., The Modern Organ, Org. Lit. Foundation?
Smets, Paul, Lehrbuch der Orgelkunst, Rheinhold Verlag, 1950
Smith, Herman, Modern Organ Tuning, Reeves, London
* Sumner, W.L., The Organ, MacDonald, 1973 <---Another classic tome on the organ...not light reading, but lots of photos, illustrations, stoplists and other interesting , even fascinating, material.
Thistlethwaite, The Making of the Victorian Organ, Cambridge PressTsöpfer, J.G., Die Theorie und Praxis des Orgelbaues (1881), Org. Lit. FoundatioVanPelt, Wm. T., The Hook Opus List, 18291916, OHS, 1991
Vente, M.A., Die Brabanter OrgelVente, M.A. & Peeters, Flor, The Organ and its Music in the Netherlands (recording and book)
Williams, Peter, The European Organ, Indiana U. Press, Bloomington, 1966
Williams, P. and Owen, B., The Organ, (The New Grove) Norton, NY, 1988