Music in medieval Britain / by Frank Ll. Harrison.
| Author/creator | Harrison, Frank Ll. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Routledge and Paul, [1958] |
| Description | xix, 491 pages : illustrations, 16 plates, map, music ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the history of music Studies in the history of music (London, England) UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The institutions and their choirs. Secular cathedrals ; Collegiate churches and household chapels ; Colleges ; Monasteries -- The liturgy and its plainsong. Ordinal and customary ; Psalm and canticle ; Antiphon ; Respond ; Tract ; Hymn, sequence and prose ; Lesson ; Ordinary of the mass; tropes ; Benedicamus Domino ; Commemorations and memorials ; Votive mass ; Processions ; Ceremonies of holy week and Easter ; Plainsong books; the tonale -- The polyphony of the liturgy from 1100 to 1400. Ceremonial in choir ; Polyphony and the ritual ; Polyphony in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; Benedicamus and conductus; clausula and motet ; Characteristics of English polyphony ; Rondellus-motet and Rondellus-conductus ; Descant in the fourteenth century ; Polyphony to English words -- The institutions and the cultivation of polyphony from 1400 to the Reformation. Colleges ; Household chapels ; Collegiate churches ; Secular cathedrals ; Monasteries ; Cathedrals of the new foundation ; Parish churches ; The medieval organ ; The ritual use of the organ ; Polyphony and devotion -- Mass and motet. French and English style in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries ; The first group of composers in the Old Hall Manuscript ; English and French style from 1413 to c. 1430 ; The later composers in the Old Hall Manuscript ; Dunstable and his contemporaries ; The development of the festal mass ; The festal mass in the sixteenth century ; The shorter mass -- Votive antiphon and magnificat. Origin and development of the votive antiphon ; The Eton antiphons ; The votive antiphon in the sixteenth century ; The shorter votive antiphon ; The magnificat -- Other ritual forms; the carol. Ritual antiphon ; Respond ; Tract ; Hymn ; Sequence and prose ; Lesson ; Processional music ; Apostle's creed and Lord's prayer ; Benedicamus ; Carol ; The break with Medieval tradition -- Appendix I. Deed of appointment of Richard Hygons as master of the choristers at Wells (1479) -- Appendix II. Deed of appointment of Thomas Ashwell as cantor at Durham (1513) -- Appendix III. Extract from a Magdalen College inventory (1522) -- Appendix IV. Extract from a King's College inventory (1529) -- Appendix V. Extracts from a Winchester College inventory (1531) -- Appendix VI. Extracts from the statutes of the new foundation of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (1539). |
| Abstract | This book breaks new ground in the treatment of the history of medieval music. Drawing on unpublished archives and previously untapped printed sources, the author gives a comprehensive account of the choral foundations of monastic and secular cathedrals, of abbeys and parish churches, and of colleges, collegiate churches and household chapels, assessing the part played by each type of institution in the musical history of the British Isles. This new investigation is complemented by a study of the history and forms of the plainsong of the English medieval liturgies, and against this dual background the development of polyphonic music form the Norman conquest to the Reformation is traced in continuous relation to its institutional setting and its ritual framework. The book contains the first detailed survey of English music between Dunstable and the Elizabethans, and shows it to have been one of the most brilliant and active periods in English musical history. The results of new research into the lives of composers and the membership of later medieval choirs are incorporated in an index and register of musicians. |
| Local note | Little-36695 - $10.00 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-453) and index. |
| LCCN | 59001688 |