Organ Resources

DDM-Online contains bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory and ethnomusicology as well as in related musical, scientific and humanistic disciplines.
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Professional association serving the organ and choral music fields. The AGO, serving members in approximately 300 chapters throughout the United States and abroad, seeks to set and maintain high musical standards and to promote understanding and appreciation of all aspects of organ and choral music.

The Ann Arbor chapter of the American Guild of Organists, membership consists of university professors, students of all ages, local music teachers, church musicians, performers, choral conductors and singers, scholars, composers, music historians, clergy, organ builders, and people who just love the organ.

The Organ Historical Society celebrates, preserves, and studies the pipe organ in America in all its historic styles, through research, education, advocacy, and music. The OHS has an online database of pipe organs with more than 60,000 entries; a historic organ citation program that has recognized more than 400 instruments; the world’s largest collection of pipe organ-related archives, books, journals, pamphlets, and other ephemera; annual conventions that take place in locations around the country; publications including a quarterly journal and award-winning scholarly books on the pipe organ; and an online store with organ-related books, CDs, videos, and sheet music.

APOBA provides a way for people to take advantage of the expertise of the top people in the field, many of whom bring the experience of several generations who have preceded them. Currently there are 30 member firms, both builders and suppliers, across North America.

Searches across multiple Oxford reference resources (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music) covering all aspects of music, including biographies, definitions of terms, musical examples, lists of works, and more.
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