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1. How did the organ come to be accepted by the Church? Some earlyanswers; Part I. Organs, Music and Architecture: 2. Some thoughts onmelody and harmony; 3. Organs and polyphony; 4. Organs, politics andchant; 5. When might organs have been heard?; 6. When were the bellsheard? Architectural plans and the placement of organs; 8. Organs inthe Westwork and elsewhere; Part II. Organs and Documentation: 9.Organs in the Carolingian and Byzantine courts; 10. The organs of theUtrecht psalter; 11. Other early illustrations; 12. References to'actual organs' before c. 1300; Part III. Organs and WrittenTechnology: 14. Vitruvius, Hero, Muristos and the organ of Aquincum;15. The technologies of Theophilus; 16. Details of 'real organs' in theearly medieval writings; 17. Details of 'real organs' in miscellaneoussources; 18. Wood and metal technologies in early organ-building; 19.Conjectural developments in late medieval organ-building; 20. How didthe organ come to be accepted by the church? Some newer hypotheses.