Overview
- Examines the ideas of the sound producing and perception as they apply to organ building
- Brings together the investigation on Baroque pipe organ from the perspective of art history
- Introduces the spread of Baroque organ building tradition, discussing the possible crossing in a wide European area
Part of the book series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress (NAHP, volume 23)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Establishment of the Vox Humana Stop in Pipe Organ Building: Some Historical Observations
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From Italy to Lithuania: The Casparini Dynasty and the Consolidation of Lithuanian Baroque Organ Building
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Creating the Vox Humana’s Variety of Sounds
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About this book
The monograph focuses on the craftsmanship of complex and historically influential organ stop Vox humana. Its research and definition provides specific information distinguishing particular features in the variety of organ building traditions and discussing the differences in organ sound perception and production. The volume is aimed at art and music historians, as well as musicologists and scholars researching restoration techniques.
The book contains supplemental material with video and audio material as well as photo-documentation of authentic Vox humana examples. The material is placed in the online catalog, which may be accessed by scanning the QR code in the appendix of the book.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Diego Cannizzaro (b. 1968) graduated in piano (1992) and organ (1995) and completed Ph.D. in musicology (2004). He is a professor of organ and early keyboard at the Conservatory of Music ISSM Vincenzo Bellini in Caltanissetta, Italy. He is an organist at the Cathedral of Cefalù, the inspector for the historical organs of Sicily and a researcherat the E-Campus University – CUN, Cefalù. He holds a position of a President of Centro Studi Auditorium Pacis in Castelbuono, Palermo, and an artistic director of In Tempore Organi and Unda Maris festivals. He performed at the significant internationals festivals of organs in Europe and the USA. He published over 40 articles, monographic texts and essays about south Italian history of organ building. Diego was a guest lecturer at the Rimskij-Korsakov Conservatory in St Petersburg, Enghien and Ath Academies in Belgium, the National University of California, Real Consevatorio Superior de Madrid and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Rima Povilionienė (b. 1975) completed Ph.D. in humanities (2007). She is a full-time professor at the Department of Musicology of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT), the assistant editor-in-chief of the scientific yearly Lithuanian Musicology and an editor at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. She held a researcher position at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Kaunas University of Technology. Rima was on internships at the Institute of Musicology at Leipzig University (2004) and IRCAM (2012 and 2019). She was a guest lecturer at the Leipzig University, Tbilisi Conservatoire, Belgrade University of Arts, Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, etc. Rima has edited over 15 collections and published over 30 academic texts and nearly 200 critic reviews. Her monograph Musica Mathematica (in Lithuanian, 2013) was awarded the Vytautas Landsbergis Prize for the best musicological work of the year. The English edition of the monograph was published by Peter Lang in 2016. She is an editor of two collections for Springer (2017 and 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vox Humana Craftsmanship
Book Subtitle: Origins, Intersections and Influence on Lithuanian Pipe Organ Building
Authors: Girėnas Povilionis, Diego Cannizzaro, Rima Povilionienė
Series Title: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10290-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10289-9Published: 29 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10292-9Published: 30 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10290-5Published: 28 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2510-442X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4438
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 267
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aesthetics, Cultural Heritage, Music, Arts