Produced by Chris Curnow, Hunter Monroe, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGAN IN HISTORY. [Illustration: PNEUMATIC ORGAN FROM A MS. PSALTER OF EADWINE IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.] THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGAN IN HISTORY. Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University BY DUDLEY BUCK. PROFESSOR AND LECTURER OF THE DEPARTMENT. _New Edition, with Illustrations._ LONDON: W. REEVES, 83, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. Office of "The Musical Standard." LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. I.--PNEUMATIC-ORGAN FROM A MS. PSALTER OF EADWINE IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (_Frontispiece_). II.--PERUVIAN PAN'S PIPES, DOUBLE SET. FROM A TOMB IN AFRICA 10 III.--EARLY FORM OF THE REGALS. FROM LUCINIUS' MUSURGIA, SEN PRAXIS MUSICÆ, 1536 19 IV.--FROM GORI'S THESAURUS DIPTYCHORUM. SAID TO BE FROM AN ANCIENT MS. OF THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE 22 V.--A POSITIVE ORGAN. FROM AMBROSIUS WILPHLINGSEDER'S EROTEMATA, MUSICES PRATICAE, NUREMBERG, 1563 31 VI.--A CURIOUS ENGRAVING SHOWING AN ORGANIST PERFORMING UPON AN INSTRUMENT WITH BROAD KEYS. FROM FRANCHINUS GAFFURIUS' THEORICA MUSICA, 1492 34 VII.--THE ANCIENT MODE OF ORGAN BLOWING. FROM PRAETORIUS' THEATRUM INSTRUMENTORUM, 1620 46 VIII.--TERRA-COTTA MODEL OF HYDRAULIC ORGAN. CIR. 150 A.D. CARTHAGE MUSEUM. FROM HERMANN SMITH'S "THE MAKING OF SOUND IN THE ORGAN AND IN THE ORCHESTRA" 47 IX.--REV. F. W. GALPIN'S WORKING REPRODUCTION OF THE ROMAN HYDRAULUS. FROM HERMANN SMITH'S "THE MAKING OF SOUND IN THE ORGAN AND IN THE ORCHESTRA" 48 SECTION I. [Illustration: PERUVIAN PAN'S PIPES, DOUBLE SET. FROM A TOMB IN AFRICA.] THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGAN IN HISTORY. SECTION I. Ladies and Gentlemen:-- It having become my duty to deliver this, the inaugural lecture of the organ department attached to this institution, I have found myself considerably embarrassed as to choice of subjects. The trouble lay in the quantity of material at hand, and not in any lack of it.