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• Max Reger and Karl Straube
  Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition
  by Christopher Anderson. Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-3075-7
• Anonimi Toscani (18th century) Sonate per Organo Volumes III-IV
  Editor: Jolando Scarpa. Publisher: Edition Walhall EW985 and EW989

B

• William Herschel (1735-1822): Full Organ Pieces (second set) (Manuals)
  edited by David Baker and Christopher Bagot Fitzjohn Music Publications
• The Organ
  by David Baker. Shire Publications, ISBN 0-7478-0560-1
• El órgano de Santa Marina la Real de Léon y la familia de Echavarría, organeros del Rey
  by José Maria Barrero Baladrón and Gerard A C De Graaf. Universidad de León, Secretariado de Publicaciones
• August Gern and the Frant Church Organ: A History
  by Paul Barber. Available from the author, The Coach House, Lime Close, Frant, Sussex, TN3 9DP
• Elizabeth Stirling and the Musical Life of Female Organists in Nineteenth-Century England
  by Judith Barger. ISBN 978-0-7546-5129-1
• Max Reger and Historicist Modernisms
  by Antonius Bittmann. Verlag Valentin Koerner
• The Amazing Pipe Organ
  by Barbara Brodbeck, illustrated by Andrew Dittmar. Fairway Press, ISBN 0-7880-1652-0
• Six centuries of Organ building in Devon
  by Nigel Brown. Published by At the sign of the Pipe.

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• The Camphuysen Manuscript
  Edited by Pieter van Dijk and Frank van Wijk
  Published by Ut Orpheus ECHOM2
• Clementi’s Selection of Practical Harmony vol 1
  Muzio Clementi: Edited by Andrea Coen
  Published by Ut Orpheus MC52.1
• The Complete Organ Volumes 1 to 6
  David Baker writes "This is an outstanding series that deserves high praise. I hope to see many more volumes being published soon". Pendragon Press have published the following volumes so far:
  • Volume 1: Playing the Organ Works of César Franck
    by Rollin Smith. ISBN 0-945193-79-3
  • Volume 2: Joseph Jongen and his Organ Music
    by John Scott Whiteley. ISBN 0-945193-82-3
  • Volume 3: Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral
    by Rollin Smith. Pendragon Press, ISBN 1-57647-004-0
  • Volume 4: The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré
    by Graham Steed. Pendragon Press, ISBN 1-57647-007-5
  • Volume 5: Albert Schweitzer as I knew him
    by Edouard Nies-Berger. Pendragon Press, ISBN 1-57647-039-3
  • Volume 6: Towards an Authentic Interpretation of the Organ Works of Cesar Franck
    by Rollin Smith. Pendragon Press (2^nd edition), ISBN 1-57647-076-8

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• Composing Music for Worship
  by Stephen Darlington and Alan Kreider. Canterbury Press, ISBN 1-85311-524-X
• Music Therapy
  by Rachel Darnley-Smith and Helen M. Patey. Sage, ISBN 0-7619-5777-4

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• English Eighteenth-Century Concertos: an Inventory and Thematic Catalogues
  by Owain Tudor Edward. Pendragon Press, ISBN 1-57647-098-9
• The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
  Edited by W P Edwards. Universe, ISBN 0-7893-1201-8
• Aristide Cavaillé-Coll - a Compendium of Known Stop Lists
  by Jesse Eschbach. Paderborn: Verlag Peter Ewers, ISBN 3-928243-05-5

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• Ibbs and Tillett : the Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire
  by Christopher Fifield. Ashgate, ISBN 1-84014-290-1
• Masterclass: Practical Help for Organists and Pianists
  by Roger Fisher. Animus
• Hearts to Heaven and Tempers Raise
  by Reginald Frary. Canterbury Press, ISBN 1-85311-666-1
• Maurice Duruflé: the Man and his Music
  by James E Frazier. University of Rochester Press, ISBN 978-1-58046-227-3
• The Nordic-Baltic Organ Book: History and Culture
  by Anna Frisk, Sverker Jullander and Andrew McCrea. GOArt Publications.

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• A Country Cathedral Organist Looks Back
  by David Gedge. Serendipity, ISBN 1-84394-168-6
• More from a Country Cathedral Organist
  by David Gedge. Gomer, ISBN 978-0-95585-960-1
• GOArt Organ Documentation Reports 1-2
  by various authors. GOArt Publications.
• GOArt Research Reports
  by various authors. GOArt Publications.
• The Organ in France
  by Wallace Goodrich. Wayne Leopold Editions, ISBN 978-1-881162-18-6
• Léonce de Saint-Martin à Notre-Dame de Paris
  by Jean Guérard. Paris: Les Editions de l'Officine, ISBN 2-915680-08-6

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• The Organs of Southwell Minster
  by Paul Hale. Available from The Minster Shop, Southwell, Notts, NG25 0HD. ISBN 978-0-9552580-9-1
• Star Organs of Britain 2006
  photographed by Andrew Hayden. Available from the author
• Star Organs of Britain 2007
  photographed by Andrew Hayden. Available from the author
• Star Organs of Britain 2008
  photographed by Andrew Hayden. Available from the author
• Pipe Organs Past & Present: St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Leatherhead
  by Linda Heath. http://www.parishchurch.leatherheadweb.org.uk/parkerorgan/
• 'To Fill, Forbear, or Adorne': the Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music
  edited by Rebecca Herissone.
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life
  by Peter Horton. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-826146-8
• Jumping to Conclusions: The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant, Polyphyony and Recitative
  by Richard Hudson. Ashgate
• The Schulze Dynasty: Organ Builders 1688-1880
  by Bryan Hughes. Musical Opinion, ISBN 0-9544074-1-5
• The House of Brindley Organ builders of Sheffield 1845-1939
  by Bryan Hughes. Musical Opinion

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• IBO Information Leaflets

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K

• The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J.S. Bach and his Music in England, 1750-1830
  edited by Michael Kassler. Ashgate, ISBN 1-84014-666-4
• Handel, the Man and his Music
  by Jonathan Keates. Bodley Head, ISBN 9780224082020
• Singing in English (High Voice)
  by Mary King. ISMN: M060117619;ISBN: 978-0-85162-542-3

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• Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms
  by Alison Latham. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860698-2
• L'Oeuvre d'Orgue d'Olivier Messiaen - Oeuvres d'avant Guerre
  by Olivier Latry and Loïc Mallié. Carus-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-89948-106-8 (3-89948-106-2)
• Reminiscence and Recollection: Watkins Shaw, 1911-1996
  by Richard Lyne.

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• Orgues en Belgique, Pays-Bas et Allemagne
  by Éric Mairlot. L'Orgue Francophone. ISSN 0985-3642
• Martin Šaško and his school of organbuilders
  by Marian Alojz Mayer
• Cecilia McDowall: Rise heart; they lord is risen
  SSATB (unacc.) Oxford University Press ISBN 078-O-19-352269-4
• Méthodes & Traités: Série 1 - France, 1600-1800
  edited by Jean Saint-Arroman and Jean-Christophe Tosi. Editions Fuzeau

N

• The Organist's Dictionary of Real Meanings; Horatio Netherwallop
  Organist Publications Ltd, PO Box 538, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 9EY. ISBN 978-0-9550749-1-2
• The Box of Whistles: the History and Recent Development of Organ Case Design
  by John Norman. Azure, ISBN 978-1-9026-9431-3

O

• The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms
  by Barbara Owen. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-531107-5

P

• Seven Voluntaries – Charles Avison junior
  (edited by Simon Fleming and David Patrick)
  Twelve Short Preludes on Old English Psalm Tunes – William Thomas Best
  (edited by David Patrick).

Q

• Toccata on Victimae Paschali Laudes
  by Iain Quinn. GIA Publications G-7414

R

• The Percy Whitlock Companion
  edited by Malcolm Riley. ISBN 978-0-9555669-0-5
• The Word Revealed: A festival service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible
  Royal School of Church Music RS40; ISBN 978-0-85402-184-0
• A Supplement to Historic Organs of New South Wales, the Instruments, their Makers and Players, 1791-1940
  by Graeme D Rushworth. ISBN 0-9588448-1-X

S

• Christian Flor. Todes-Gedancken auff meinen lieben Gott, und andere Clavierwerke
  Editors: Arndt Schnoor and Jörg Jacobi, Published by Edition Baroque eba4052.
• Three Books
  Godwin Sadoh
• Percy Whitlock, Organist and Composer: a biographical study
  by William Sessions. Ebor Press, 2003 (2^nd edition)
• The Organs and Organists of Hereford Cathedral
  by Watkins Shaw and Roy Massey. Hereford Cathedral Organ Committee, ISBN 0-90464-216-X
• Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding his Music
  by Andrew Shenton. Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-6168-9
• Sing God's Glory: Hymns for Sundays and Holy Days Years A, B & C
  edited by Alan Luff, et al. Canterbury Press
• Saint-Saëns and the Organ
  by Rollin Smith. Pendragon Press, ISBN 0-945193-14-9
• Stokowski and the Organ
  by Rollin Smith. Pendragon Press, ISBN 1-57647-103-9
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck
  by Kerala J Snyder. ISBN 978-1-58046-23-2
• Joel Speelstra: Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide; with a foreword by Hans Davidsson
  University of Rochester Press, 2004. (Eastman Studies in Music; 26). ISBN 1-58046-135-2; ISSN 1071-9989
• The North German Organ Research project at Göteborg University
  edited by Joel Speerstra. GOArt Publications.
• Is That the Right Tune?
  by Brian Spinney.
• The Digital Musician: an Introduction to MIDI, Digital Instruments and Beyond
  by Geoffrey Stanton.
• The Straube Code: Deciphering the Metronome Marks in Max Reger's Organ Music
  by Henrico Stewen. Sibelius Academy, Church Music Department, ISBN 978-952-5531-38-1; ISSN 0787-7838
• Alan Luff (Editor): Strengthen for Service: 100 Years of the English Hymnal 1906-2006
  English Hymnal Company and The Canterbury Press, ISBN 1-85311-662-9
• Sunday by Sunday: Music for the Second Service Lectionary
  compiled by Anne Harrison, John Henderson, Peter Moger and David Ogden. RSCM/Canterbury, ISBN 978-1-85311-840-1

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• With Rare Diligence and Accuracy
  The Organ Building of Peter Adolph Albrechtsen in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Danish/Norwegian Culture.
  by Hans Jacob Hoyem Tronshaug. GOArt Publications.

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• This Heaving Ocean of Tones
  Nineteenth-Century Organ Registration Practice at St Marien, Lübeck
  by Joachim Walter. GOArt Publications.
• The Organs of Gloucestershire
  by Roy Williamson. Published by the Author at 17, Blenheim Court, Winchcombe, GL54 5PW
• Full with Wills: My Life in Music - a Memoir
  Arthur Wills. ISBN 1-905203-89-6
• C'est La Folie
  by Michael Wright. ISBN 05930 54695

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