The choral tradition : an historical and analytical survey from the sixteenth century to the present day / Percy M. Young.
| Author/creator | Young, Percy M. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Hutchinson, 1962. |
| Description | 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The sixteenth century. The nature and purpose of sixteenth-century music ; 'The Westron Wynde' mass by John Taverner ; Missa Papae Marcelli and Stabat mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; 'Penitential psalms' and motets by Orlandus Lassus ; The three masses of William Byrd ; Motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Jacob Handl, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Peter Philips ; The triumphs of Oriana -- The seventeenth century. New styles ; Giacomo Carissimi: oratorios ; Claudio Monteverdi: madrigals, masses and vespers ; Heinrich Schütz ; Other German composers ; Dietrich Buxtehude ; Michel Richard de Lalande ; Dixit dominus ; Henry Purcell -- The period of Bach and Handel. Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel ; The conditions of choral composition ; The cantatas ; Christmas oratorio ; Messiah ; Other oratorios ; The passion settings of Handel and Bach ; Mass in B minor ; Magnificat ; Contemporaries of Bach and Handel -- The period of Haydn and Mozart. Local conditions in Austria ; Missa brevis (K. 192) ; 'Coronation' mass ; 'Pater dominicus' mass ; Vesperae ; Early masses of Haydn ; Lates masses of Haydn ; Miscellaneous works of Haydn ; Requiem: Mozart ; The creation and The seasons -- The nineteenth century. The growth of choral societies ; Cherubini ; Beethoven ; Schubert ; Spohr and Gounod ; Literary influences ; Faust in Mendelssohn, Schumann and Berlioz ; 'Sacred' music by Berlioz and Mendelssohn ; Mediocrity in spate ; Germany and Austria: the works of Brahms and Bruckner ; Requiem: Verdi ; Elgar's Dream of Gerontius ; Some French works ; Other schools ; Progress in America -- The twentieth century. New points of view ; The Motu proprio of 1903 ; The influence of Nietzsche and Whitman ; Nationalism and Romanticism ; Technique ; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor and Sancta Civitas ; Gustav Holst: The hymn of Jesus ; Constant Lambert: The Rio Grande ; Igor Stravinsky: Symphonie de psaumes ; Ernest Bloch: Avodath hakodesh (Sacred service) ; Heinrich Kaminski: Magnificat and Passion ; The choral works of Benjamin Britten ; The American tradition and some significant works. |
| Abstract | "It is an astonishing fact that to the majority of music-lovers all but a handful of the great choral works have hitherto remained a closed book. And yet, as Dr. Young contends, to be ignorant of the choral masterpieces of, for example, Palestrina, Byrd, Monteverdi and Bach is to be ignorant of perhaps the clearest musical index to the life and thought of Western civilization. Fortunately an increasing public interest in choral music is now reflected in the large number of performances of choral works, and in the growing volume and variety of choral recordings being issued. The Choral Tradition has therefore arrived on the musical scene at a most propitious moment. Dr. Young's survey embraces the choral achievements of nearly 500 years, ranging from The Westron Wynde mass of John Taverner (c. 1495-1545) and the Stabat mater of Palestrina to such significant works of the present century as Stravinsky's Symphony of psalms. During his critical assessment of every great period of choral writing and of the composers who contributed to it, Dr. Young analyses in detail over 350 individual works, with frequent musical examples. His appendix lists the choral and instrument requirements of the principal works under review, while his bibliography includes over 150 titles for further reference. Dr. Young says that he himself has probably learnt most about the nature and purpose of music through his long acquaintance with choral works and their performance. The Choral Tradition is therefore a major work by a man whose life, as composer, conductor, author and teacher, is dedicated to the cause of music and the community it serves."--Dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies. |
| Biographical note | "Dr. Percy M. Young was educated at Christ's Hospital, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin. As composer, conductor, lecturer and adjudicator, he has identified himself with every aspect of musical life in this country, and has extended his activities to many parts of the continent. He has published books on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn and Handel, and has also contributed to Grove's Dictionary and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In addition to his own substantial output of compositions, Dr. Young has completed a number of Elgar's works from the composer's sketches, while one of his recent commissions has been to produce a new, definitive edition of Handel's oratorio, Saul."--Dust jacket. |
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