A Short History of English Church Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of English Church Music write by Erik Routley. This book was released on 1997-01-01. A Short History of English Church Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this is a brief history of church music as it has developed through the English tradition. Described as a quick journey, it provides a broad historical survey rather than an in-depth study of the subject, and also predicts likely future trends.
O Sing unto the Lord
O Sing unto the Lord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook O Sing unto the Lord write by Andrew Gant. This book was released on 2015-09-24. O Sing unto the Lord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the role church music has played in ordinary lives and how it reflects those lives back to us. The author considers why church music remains so popular and frequently tops the classical charts and why the BBC's Choral Evensong remains the longest-running radio series ever. He shows how England's church music follows the contours of its history and is the soundtrack of its changing politics and culture, from the mysteries of the Mass to the elegant decorum of the Restoration anthem, from stern Puritanism to Victorian bombast, and thence to the fractured worlds of the twentieth century as heard in the music of Vaughan Williams and Britten. This is a book for everyone interested in the history of English music, culture and society.
A Little History Of The English Country Church
A Little History Of The English Country Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Little History Of The English Country Church write by Roy Strong. This book was released on 2012-05-31. A Little History Of The English Country Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; from the cataclysm of the Reformation, to the gentrified cleric we meet in Jane Austen novels, Roy Strong takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what men and women experienced through the age when they went to church on Sunday. ‘Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church, of its life today, or its history will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative, account’ Country Life
Our Church
Our Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Church write by Roger Scruton. This book was released on 2014-02-01. Our Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.
Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?
Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? write by T.E. Muir. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have since been forgotten. Apart from compositions in the latest Classical Viennese styles and their successors, much of the music performed constituted a revival or imitation of older musical genres, especially plainchant and Renaissance Polyphony. Furthermore, many pieces that had originally been intended to be performed by professional musicians for the benefit of privileged royal, aristocratic or high ecclesiastical elites were repackaged for rendition by amateurs before largely working or lower middle class congregations, many of them Irish. However, outside Catholic circles, little attention has been paid to this subject. Consequently, the achievements and widespread popularity of many composers (such as Joseph Egbert Turner, Henry George Nixon or John Richardson) within the English Catholic community have passed largely unnoticed. Worse still, much of the evidence is rapidly disappearing, partly because it no longer seems relevant to the needs of the modern Catholic Church in England. This book provides a framework of the main aspects of Catholic church music in this period, showing how and why it developed in the way it did. Dr Muir sets the music in its historical, liturgical and legal context, pointing to the ways in which the music itself can be used as evidence to throw light on the changing character of English Catholicism. As a result the book will appeal not only to scholars and students working in the field, but also to church musicians, liturgists, historians, ecclesiastics and other interested Catholic and non-Catholic parties.
