Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900
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Anglican liturgical music
Author_Nicholas Temperley
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Charles I
Church Music
Communion Hymns
Conferred
Congregational Singing
congregational singing research
English Parish Church
English parish music evolution
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Foundling Hospital
Fuging Tune
Gloria Patri
hymn tune analysis
Hymn Tunes
Lock Hospital
Lord's Supper
Lord’s Supper
Magdalen Chapel
Magdalen Hospital
Metrical Psalm Tunes
Metrical Psalms
Nunc Dimittis
organ repertoire England
Original Hymns
Parish Church
Parish Clerks
Psalm Book
Psalm Tunes
psalmody history
St Michael Le Belfrey
STC
West Gallery choirs
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754659983
- Weight: 778g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, The Music of the English Parish Church; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in The New Grove. This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from various journals and symposia, both British and American, that are often hard to find and may be less familiar to many scholars and students in the field. Here we have studies of how singing in church strayed from artistic control during its neglect in the 16th and 17th centuries, how the vernacular 'fuging tune' of West Gallery choirs grew up, and how individuals like Playford, Croft, Madan, and Stainer set about raising artistic standards. There are also assessments of the part played by charity in the improvement of church music, the effect of the English organ and the reasons why it never inspired anything resembling the German organ chorale, and the origins of congregational psalm chanting in late Georgian York. Whatever the topic, Temperley takes a fresh approach based on careful research, while refusing to adopt artistic or religious preconceptions.
Nicholas Temperley is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
