The music of the English church / by Kenneth R. Long.

Author/creator Long, Kenneth R.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
Description479 pages : music ; 26 cm
Subjects
Church music--Church of England. --History and criticism.
Church music--England. --History and criticism.

Partial contents The English Reformation -- The place of music in worship -- Music at the time of the Reformation -- The earliest Anglican composers -- Characteristics of late Renaissance style -- William Byrd -- Some late Renaissance composers -- Church music and the Puritans -- The English baroque -- Blow and Purcell -- The eighteenth century -- Church music under the late Georgians -- The nineteenth century -- Some Victorian composers -- Victoriana -- The Awakening -- The twentieth century -- The music of the twentieth century.
Contents The English Reformation. A brief history of the Book of Common Prayer ; The first Prayer book of 1549 ; Church musicians and the Reformation ; Merbecke's Booke of Common Praier Noted ; The modern revival of Merbecke ; The 'parish church' and 'cathedral' traditions -- The place of music in worship. The parish church tradition ; The cathedral tradition -- Music at the time of the Reformation. Origins and development of Renaissance style ; The sixteenth century ; The sixteenth century in England ; Setting Latin and English texts ; Notation and performance ; Sacred and secular: dual-purpose music ; The organ in Britain -- The earliest Anglican composers. Manuscript and early printed sources ; Christopher Tye ; Thomas Tallis ; Tallis: the Latin works ; Tallis's English church music ; Thomas Caustun ; Robert Johnson ; John Merbecke ; Osbert Parsley ; Robert Parsons ; John Sheppard ; William Mundy ; Robert White ; Richard Farrant -- Characteristics of late Renaissance style. Melody ; Rhythm ; Modes and tonality ; Counterpoint and harmony ; Form and texture ; Underlaying the words ; Word-painting ; Pitch and notation ; Tudor and Jacobean 'fingerprints'. Common melodic idioms, cadence formulae, the Nota Cambiata, decorated suspensions, false relations, simultaneous clashes -- William Byrd. The Latin masses ; The motets ; English service music ; Sacred music with English words -- Some late Renaissance composers. Thomas Morley ; Thomas Tomkins ; Tomkins's church music ; Tomkins: the services ; Tomkins: the anthems and full anthems ; Tomkins: the verse anthems ; Characteristics of Tomkins's style ; Thomas Weelkes ; Weelkes: the music ; Weelkes: the services ; Weelkes: the full anthems ; Weelkes: the verse anthems ; Orlando Gibbons ; Gibbons's church music ; Gibbons: the services ; Gibbons: the full anthems ; Gibbons: the verse anthems ; Gibbons: the hymn-tunes ; Characteristics of Gibbons's style ; Some lesser composers ; John Amner ; Adrian Batten ; Michael East ; Thomas Ravenscroft ; William Smith ; John Ward ; Composers of transition ; Peter Philips ; Martin Peerson ; Richard Dering ; Robert Ramsey -- Church music and the puritans --
Contents The English Baroque. Monody and recitative ; 'Affective' melody and harmony ; Regular barring and accentuation ; The key system and harmonic thinking ; Figured bass and continuo playing ; The influence of harmony on melody ; English 'recitative musick' ; The growing importance of the solo voice ; Problems of form ; The Chapel Royal after 1660 ; Use of stringed instruments ; Anthems and services ; Church music outside the Chapel Royal ; The organ after 1660 ; Music in the parish churches ; The gallery minstrels ; Anglican chanting -- Nicholas Lanier ; Walter Porter ; Richard Portman ; Henry Lawes ; William Lawes ; William Child ; Benjamin Rogers ; Christopher Gibbons ; Henry Cooke ; George Jeffreys ; Matthew Locke ; Robert Creighton ; Henry Aldrich ; The 'Restoration' composers ; Pelham Humfrey ; Robert Smith ; Michael Wise ; Daniel Roseingrave ; Thomas Tudway ; William Turner ; Henry Hall -- The English Baroque: Blow and Purcell. John Blow ; Blow: the verse anthems ; Blow: the full anthems ; Blow: the services ; Henry Purcell ; Purcell: the full anthems ; Purcell: the verse anthems ; Purcell: the Latin anthems ; Purcell: the services ; Daniel Purcell -- The eighteenth century. General ; Manuscript and printed collections ; The end of the English baroque ; Jeremiah Clarke ; Wiliam Golding ; William Croft ; John Weldon ; Maurice Greene ; William Boyce ; Minor figures. Benjamin Cooke, John Travers, James Nares -- Church music under the late Georgians. Jonathan Battishill ; Thomas Attwood ; Samuel Wesley ; William Crotch -- The nineteenth century. The state of the church ; Cathedral music ; Reformers of cathedral music. John Jebb, S. S. Wesley, Miss Maria Hackett, John Stainer ; Music in the parish churches ; The growth of hymnody ; The organ ; Characteristics of Victorian church music -- Some Victorian composers. Samuel Sebastian Wesley ; Wesley: the twelve anthems ; Wesley: other anthems ; Wesley: the services ; Wesley's hymn-tunes ; Robert Lucas Pearsall ; John Goss ; Thomas Attwood Walmisley ; The Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley ; William Sterndale Bennett ; George M. Garrett -- Victoriana. Henry J. Gauntlett ; The Rev. John Dykes ; Sir Joseph Barnby ; Sir John Stainer ; Sir Arthur Sullivan -- The awakening. Sir Hubert Parry ; Sir Charles Stanford ; Stanford: the services ; Stanford: the anthems ; Charles Wood -- The twentieth century. The state of the church ; Music in the twentieth century ; The state of parish church music ; The radio and gramophone ; Reforming, training and examining agencies ; Singing the psalms. Metrical psalms, psalm singing to Gregorian tones, psalm singing to Anglican chants, psalm singing to the Gelineau method ; Hymnody in the twentieth century ; The organ in the twentieth century -- The music of the twentieth century. The main stream ; Alan Gray ; Basil Harwood ; Thomas Tertius Noble ; Sir Henry Walford Davies ; John Ireland ; Sir Edward Bairstow ; Sir Sydney Nicholson ; Sir William Harris ; The Tudor and Jacobean revival ; The folk-song influence ; The reactionaries -- Ralph Vaughan Williams ; The jazz influence ; The impressionists. 'Peter Warlock', Herbert Howells ; Benjamin Britten ; 'Pop' music in church ; 'Folk' music ; The new music.
Abstract Concerned with the growth and development of the art of liturgical music and the circumstances under which it was written and performed, this book shows English church music as part of the far wider pattern of western European musical culture and examines the effect upon it of such great continental movements as the Renaissance and Baroque. The author seeks to project it against its religious, political, economic and social background, and to trace the parallel developments in parish music and organ building.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 441-451) and indexes.

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