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Organ Resources

Locate information and materials related to the organ in the Music Library

Organ Instruction & Study

Improvising in Traditional 17th- and 18th-Century Harmonic Style: A Volume Based on the Musical Language of the Mature Baroque by John R. Shannon; edited by Wayne Leupold.
Call Number: MT 191 .I5 S53 2010
Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing by Jon Laukvik.
Call Number: MT 180 .L382 1996
Making Music on the Organ by Peter Hurford.
Call Number: MT 180 .H941 1993

Organists

J.S. Bach as Organist: His Instruments, Music, and Performance Practices by George Stauffer and Ernest May (eds.).
Call Number: ML 410.B12 J13
French Masters of the Organ: Saint-Saëns, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupré, Langlais, Messiaen by Michael Murray.
Call Number: ML 396 .M871 1998
Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition by Christopher Anderson.
Call Number: ML 410 .R33 A631 2003
Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music by James E. Frazier.
Call Number: ML 416 .D87 F73 2007
Pierre Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame by Anthony Hammond.
Call Number: ML 416.C62 H36 2012
Anton Heiller: Organist, Composer, Conductor by Peter Planyavsky.
Call Number: ML 410 .H435 P5313 2014

Reference & General Works

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ by Nicholas Thistlethwaite and Geoffrey Webber (eds.).
Call Number: ML 550 .C351 1998
The Organ: An Encyclopedia by Douglas E. Bush and Richard Kassel (eds.).
Call Number: ML 102 .K5 E531 2003 v.3
The Organ: Its History and Construction by E.J. Hopkins and E.F. Rimbault.
Call Number: ML 552 .H79 1987
Bibliography of Organ Music by W.B. Henshaw.
Call Number: ML 128 .O6 H47 2009
Twentieth-Century Organ Music by Christopher S. Anderson (ed.).
Call Number: ML 607 .T84 2012
Catalogue of Music for Organ and Instruments by James H. Laster.
Call Number: ML 128 .O6 L341 2005
Bio-bibliographical Index of Organ Music: Composers, Works, Editions, 1150-2000, 57 Countries: A Selection by Klaus Beckmann.
Call Number: ML 128 .O6 B43 2001
A Directory of Composers for Organ by John Henderson.
Call Number: ML 128 .O6 H461 1996
Organ Literature: A Comprehensive Survey by Corliss Richard Arnold.
Call Number: ML 600 .A75 1995
Understanding the Pipe Organ: A Guide for Students, Teachers and Lovers of the Instrument by John R. Shannon.
Call Number: ML 552 .S43 2009
Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog by Adel Heinrich.
Call Number: ML 128 .O6 O73 1991
Ricercare: Verzeichnis Cantus-Firmus-Gebundener Orgelmusik by Martin Bieri.
Call Number: ML 128 .C6 B541 2001
Organ Construction by J. W. Hinton.
Call Number: ML 552 .H6611 1992
The Modern Classical Organ: A Guide to Its Physical and Musical Structure and Performance Implications by Thomas Donahue.
Call Number: ML 557 .D661 1991
The Organ Department, School of Music, The University of Michigan: Reflections, 1947-1997 by Marilyn Mason and Margarete Thomsen (eds.).
Call Number: MT 4 .A6 M68 1997
Pipe Organs of Ann Arbor: Including Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan Carillons by James O. Wilkes.
Call Number: ML 561.8 .A56 W55 1995

Owen, Barbara. "Organ." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Reference: ML 100 .N53 2001
Also available electronically: "Organ" in Oxford Music Online