The Cambridge Companion to the Organ

1. Origins and development of the organ Nicholas Thistlethwaite; 2. Organ construction Stephen Bicknell; 3. The physics of the organ John Mainstone; 4. Temperament and pitch Christopher Kent; 5. The organ case Stephen Bicknell; 6. Organ-building today Stephen Bicknell; 7. The fundamentals of organ playing Kimberly Marshall; 8. A survey of historical performance practices Kimberly Marshall; 9. Organ music and the liturgy Edward Higginbottom; 10. Italian organ music to Frescobaldi Christopher Stembridge; 11. Iberian organ music before 1800 James Dalton; 12. The French classical organ school Edward Higginbottom; 13. English organ music to c.1700 Geoffrey Cox; 14. Catholic Germany and Austria before 1800 Patrick Russill; 15. The north German organ school before 1800 Geoffrey Webber; 16. The organ music of J. S. Bach David Yearsley; 17. German organ music after 1800 Graham Barber; 18. French and Belgian organ music after 1800 Gerard Brooks; 19. British organ music after 1800 Andrew McCrea; 20. North American organ music after 1800 Douglas Reed; Appendix The church modes Christopher Stembridge.