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Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England : the work of Gray & Davison, 1772-1890 /
The London firm of Gray (later Gray & Davison) was one of Britain's leading organ-makers between the 1790s and the 1880s.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Music in Britain, 1600-2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Online Supplement
- Introduction
- PART I The Grays
- 1. Beginnings
- Antecedents
- Training
- Workshop
- New premises
- Robert and William Gray, organ-builders
- Growth of the business
- Death of Robert Gray
- 2. An expanding business: William Gray
- London contracts
- Provincial organs
- Useful connections
- Gray and Son
- Last country organs
- Death of William Gray
- 3. 'That good, honest, estimable man ... John Gray'
- Enlarging the workshop
- Financial turnover, clients and stock
- Site work and staff
- John Gray's earliest organs: the 1820s
- Blackburn Parish Church, 1824-32
- The 1830s: new organs and rebuilds
- Changing fashions: the later 1830s
- Robert Gray, pedalist and mechanic
- 4. Instruments: 1772-1840
- Introduction
- Pianofortes
- Combination organs
- Chamber organs
- Barrel organs
- Church organs
- PART II The Davisons
- 5. Frederick Davison
- Frederick Davison and the Wesleys
- Hill & Davison, organ-builders
- The German system
- Innovation and dissolution
- PART III Gray & Davison
- 6. Gray & Davison
- Partnership
- Workforce and trade, 1840-9
- The last long-compass organs
- Royal connections
- Conservatism and change: Eton and Chester
- Breaking the mould: the introduction of the 'German' plan
- Consolidation
- Dr Gauntlett again
- St George's Hall, Liverpool
- John Gray: final years and death
- 7. Frederick Davison: 'a very straightforward and respectable tradesman'
- Liverpool branch
- London trade and workshop, 1849-77
- New developments: the Great Exhibition, 1851
- Henry Smart and Glasgow City Hall
- Magdalen College, Oxford: the influence of the concert organ
- Crystal Palace: the Handel Festival organ
- Magnum opus: Leeds Town Hall
- Church organs and ecclesiology
- The 1860s: a new consensus
- Into the 1870s: Bolton Town Hall
- 8. Limited Company: 1877-90
- Establishing the company
- Frederick Rothwell
- Business and output, 1877-89
- Instruments, 1877-85
- Decline and temporary recovery
- Crisis: the death of Frederick Davison
- Closure and a new start
- 9. Instruments: 1840-90
- Domestic organs
- Concert organs
- Church organs
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index