Scudamore Organs, Or, Practical Hints Respecting Organs for Village Churches and Small Chancels - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. " There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes." Milton's // Penseroso. " The rescue of this noble instrument from the holes and corners to which modern Ecclesiologists have ofttimes assigned it, is part of our creed."--Dr. Rimbault, Pref. to Hist, of Organ, p. xxvi. I N what part of the church ought the organ to be placed? From Archæological precedent, as well as personal experience, I answer, " Above and towards the east end of the stalls." The organ will thus be well heard by both sides of the choir, it will direct and support their voices, and the organ and choir together will direct and support the voices of the congregation. Dr. Rimbault has carefully collected authorities showing that " in the mediæval ages this instrument was placed on one side of the choir, a position which seems to have been universal throughout Europe." The preponderance of English precedent is in favour of the north fide of the choir. The old organs at Westminster abbey and at Lincoln cathedral were on the north side of the choir, over the stalls. At the cathedrals of York and Winchester the organ was placed on the north side of the choir by the express command of King Charles the First; and the reason given by the king was, that, placed on the screen which divides the choir from the nave, the organ was an impediment in viewing the interior of the church. To this reason it might be added, that, if the naves of our cathedrals were to be rescued from their present degradation of being mere lobbies to the choir, and galleries of sculpture, so as to be used for a congregation of real worshippers, the ...
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