Vox Humana Craftsmanship (eBook)

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument - a pipe organ, in which various components blend into a complex whole to produce a wide range of timbres. The sound produced by wooden and metal pipes of a variety of sizes is an integral part of the instrument's unique character, while the organ stop is like its signature, from which one can judge about the size and style of the instrument, an organ building school or even an organ master, to which it is attributable. Precise identification of the name of the stop in accordance to both the pipework itself and the authentic inscriptions on the pipes is instrumental in investigating the geographic origins and authorship of an organ. 

Girenas Povilionis (b. 1976) completed Ph.D. in humanities (2006). He is an associate professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT); a senior specialist at the Lithuanian Centre for Culture Heritage; an organ historian, researcher and restorer; and gives lectures at the LAMT. Currently Girenas is restoring some famous Baroque organs in Lithuania: Adam Gottlob Casparini's 1775-76 organ at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, a 25-stop romantic organ by Juozapas Radavicius at Žemaiciu Kalvarija, Pivašiunai. Among his restored projects: the organs at Telšiai Cathedral, Žemale, Kartena, Kaunas Cathedral, and others.

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 researcher at 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 Povilioniene (b. 1975) completed Ph.D. in humanities (2007). She is a full-time professor at the Department of Music Theory 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).