Author: Edward F Rimbault.
From the fifteenth Century to the period of the Great Rebellion. An unwritten Chapter in the history of the Organ.
Now available as a facsimile on CDrom, this 110 page treatise was first presented at the Royal College of Organists in 1864. The work details the development of the Organ in England and its early English Makers. With an appendix consisting of transcriptions of documents apertaining to the Organ. Including:
- Extracts form the Fabric Rolls of York Minster Relating to Organ Matters (A.D. 1399-1536)- Extracts from the Libri Computi of Magdalen College Oxford (A.D. 1481-1695)- The Agreement between Anthony Duddyngton and the Church Wardens of All-Harrows', Barking for the Organ (A.D.1599) [from the original document preserved in the Church Chest]- The Charges about the Organ of King's College Chapel, etc., [from the Books of Kings College Cambridge]ETC....
The author, Edward Francis Rimbault, was a musicologist, composer and organist and was responsible for reviving interest in early organ music and makers in England.
