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The Organ & Organ Music: Dictionaries & Translations

A guide to the organ (musical instrument) and its music, aimed at supporting students studying organ.

Translations of Choral Repertoire

Liturgical Terms

Organ Dictionaries

General Dictionary of Choral Music

 

 

Baines, Anthony. The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1992.  [Ref. ML 102 I5 B162]

 

 

The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.  Ed. Stanley Sadie. 3 vols. London: Macmillan

                              Press, 1984.  [Ref. ML 102 I5 N53+ 1984]

The Organ: An Encyclopedia. ed. Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel. New York: Routledge, 2006.

                              [Ref. ML 102 O68 O6+]

 

Pape, Uwe, ed.  Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer. 3 vols.  Berlin : Pape Verlag, c2009-  [ML106 G37 L63, vol. 1 to date; vol. 2 to be published October 2012]

               Praet, Willfried. Orgelwoordenboek / Organ Dictionary. Zwijndrecht: CEOS, 1989.  [ML 108 O68]

 

 

 

 c. Church Music

               Carpenter, Bil.  Uncloudy Days:  The Gospel Music Encyclopedia.  San Francisco:  Backbeat Books, 2005. 

                              [Ref ML 102 G676 C2]

Carroll, Joseph Robert.  Compendium of Liturgical Music Terms. Toledo: Gregorian Institute of

America, 1964.  [Ref. ML 108 C319 C7]

Cusic, Don.  Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music:  Pop, Rock, and Worship.  Santa Barbara, Calif.:  Greenwood Press, 2010.  [ML105 E562+]

Davidson, James R.  A Dictionary of Protestant Church Music. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press,

1975.  [Ref. ML 102 C56 D252]

               Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. ed. W. K. McNeil. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Encyclopédie des musiques sacrées. Ed. Jacques Porte. 4 vols. Paris: Editions Labergerie,1968-70. 

[Ref. ML 102 C561 E5]

               Fischer, Albert Friedrich Wilhelm. Kirchenlieder-Lexikon: hymnologisch-literarische Nachweisungen

über ca. 4500 der wichtigsten und verbreititsten Kirchenlieder aller Zeiten in alphabetischer

Folge nebst einer Übersicht der LiederdichterGotha, 1878-79.  Reprint: Hildesheim: Olms, 1967.  [Ref. ML 102 H9 F529 1878a]

Hughes, Dom Anselm.  Liturgical Terms for Music Students. Boston: McLaughlin & Reilly, 1940.

[Ref. ML 108 H893 L7]

               Hustad, Don.  Dictionary-Handbook to Hymns for the Living ChurchCarol Stream: Hope Publishing,

1978.  [ML 102 H95 H9]

               Julian, John.   A Dictionary of Hymnology. London: J. Murray, 1892.  [ML 102 H95 J9]  2nd ed.,

1907. Reprinted 1908, 1915, 1958, and 1985: Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel.  2 vols.

                              [Ref. ML 102 H95 J9 1985]

               Key Words in Church Music. Ed. Carl Schalk. St. Louis: Concordia, 1978.  [ML 102 C56 K4]

               Komponisten und Liederdichter des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs. Ed. Wolfgang Herbst. Göttingen:

                              Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.  [BV 325 K66]

               Kornmüller, Utto.  Lexikon der kirchlichen Tonkunst.  Brixen: A. Weger, 1870.  [ML 102 C56 K8]

2nd ed.: Regensburg: Coppenrath, 1891-95.  Reprint: Hildesheim: Olms, 1975.

                              [Ref. ML 102 C56 K8 1891a]

Kümmerle, Salomon. Encyklopädie der evangelischen Kirchenmusik. 4 vols. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann,

                              1888-95. [oYUL]  Reprint: Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1974.  [Ref. ML 102 C56 K9 1888a]

Long, Siobhan.  The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. [ML 102 C56 L849]

Nicholson, David, comp. A Dictionary of Plainsong. 2 vols. [Private ed., S.l., 1971]

                              [Ref. ML 102 C45 N6+]

Ortigue, Joseph Louis d'.  Dictionnaire liturgique, historique et théorique de plain-chant et de musique

d'église...religieuse. Paris: Migne, 1853.  [oYUL]  Reprint: New York: Da Capo, 1971.

                              [Ref. ML 102 C459 O7+]

               Poultney, David. Dictionary of Western Church Music. Chicago: American Library Association, 1991.

[Ref. ML 102 C56 P8]

               Swain, Joseph Peter. Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006.

                              [ML 102 C56 S9]

Weissenbäck, Andreas.  Sacra musica: Lexikon der katholischen Kirchenmusik. Klosterneuberg bei

Wien: Augustinus-Druckerei, 1937.  [ML 102 S123 W4]

               Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary. Ed. Edward Foley. Collegeville, MN: Litrugical Press, 2000.

                              [Ref. ML 102 C56 W9]

               Choral Music

               Unger, Melvin P. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

[Ref. ML102 C5 U5]

 

 

 

Dictionaries of Sacred Music