The Influence of the Organ in History Part 7

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=ORCHESTRAL AND BAND INSTRUMENTS.= A Short Account of the Instruments used in the Orchestra, and in Bra.s.s and Military Bands. By G. F.

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=ORGAN OF THE ANCIENTS FROM EASTERN SOURCES= (Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic). By HENRY GEORGE FARMER, M.A., Ph.D., Carnegie Research Fellow.

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=ART OF ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT IN THE CHURCH SERVICES.= What to Do and what to Avoid: being a Guide to the Organist in the effective rendering of the Music. By WALTER L. TWINNING, _F.R.C.O._, author of "Examination Test Questions," etc. Cloth, 6s. _net_ (paper covers, 3s. 6d. _net_).

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See page 25 for list of about sixty works in this series, including works by Wagner, Tchakovsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Berlioz, Glinka, Schubert, Gounod, Herold, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Balfe, Auber, Rossini, Weber, Wallace, Suppe, Adam, Thomas, Nicolai, Sterndale-Bennett, Cornelius and Flotow, chiefly arranged by Edwin Evans.

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=ORGANIST'S REPERTOIRE GUIDE.= An International Repertoire Guide (Historical, Educational and Descriptive) to Foreign, British and American Works. By HERBERT WESTERBY, B.B.C. Organ Recitalist (_author of_ "Liszt, Composer, and his Piano Works"). 4to, cloth, 17s. 6d. _net_.

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