Abstract
This study is primarily technical in approach, and is concerned with the design and construction of the pipe organs built by Samuel Green between 1772 and his death in 1796, and those completed by his widow, Sarah, during 1796–7. It derives from and collates three sources of information: primary documentary sources, including Green’s correspondence and business records; secondary sources, including commentaries and stop-lists—both in manuscript and published—by various writers on English organs of the late 18th century; and, principally, evidence discovered during examination of the material remains of organs known to have been built originally by Green. It is, therefore, an archaeological study of late 18th-century English organ building.
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A full transcription of these is given by J. Ward: Leigh Parish Church: notes on the old organ (1911)
and reproduced in an article by B. Hughes: ‘The Organs of the Parish Church of St Mary’s, Leigh, Lancashire’, The Organ, lvii (1978–9), 27
A. Freeman: ‘Samuel Green’, The Organ, xxiii (1944–5), 156
D. C. Wickens: ‘Studies in Green 2: the Lichfield Letters’, The Organ lx (1981–2), 153
A transcription is given by L. S. Barnard: ‘The Organs of Rochester Cathedral’, The Organ, xli (1961–2), 154.
H. Byard: ‘Cirencester Parish Church and its Organs’, The Organ, xxvi (1946–7), 97
B. Matthews: ‘Samuel Green and his relations’, The Organ, lvi (1977–8), 21
D. Dawe: ‘The Mysterious Pyke’, Musical Times, cxv (1974), 68
D. C. Wickens: ‘Studies in Green 1: who was H. O.?’, The Organ, lx (1981–2), 153.
The full text of the letter, with some minor errors, is given by A. Freeman ‘Samuel Green’, The Organ, xxiii (1943–4), 111
Described by B. Matthews: ‘Organographia R. C. M. MS 1161’, The Organ, li (1969–70).
A. Freeman: ‘Samuel Green’, The Organ, xxiii (1943–4), 110, 153; xxiv (1944–5), 17, 55
F. J. Britten: Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers (London, 1899; 8/1973, rev. and enlarged 9/1982 by C. Clutton as Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers).
Freeman mentions the Marquis of Anglesey’s organ in ‘Two Organ Builders of Note: the Englands’, The Organ, xxi (1941–2), 113.
The pre-1794 barrel organ is mentioned in N. Boston and L. Langwill: Church and Chamber Barrel-Organs (1967).
R. Bootman: ‘Shifting Movements’, The Organ, lvi (1977–8), 140
B. Matthews, ‘Samuel Green and his Relations’: The Organ, lvi (1977–8), 19
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Wickens, D.C. (1987). Sources and biography. In: The Instruments of Samuel Green. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09059-4_1
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