Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

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CUP Archive, 1978 M12 14 - 454 pages
In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments in great detail, drawing on many contemporary sources to illuminate the music and its social and religious background.

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Contents

Cathedral Choirs of the Old Foundation
15
some Rubrics from the 1549
27
The Elizabethan Settlement
31
The Chapel Royal
57
The Chapel Royal Choir during the Reigns
68
Some Performance Problems
90
The Major Liturgical Sources of preRestoration
91
The Main Secular Sources of preRestoration Anthems
98
The Wanley PartBooks
173
Edwardian and Early Elizabethan Services
183
Tallis English Compositions
195
Thomas Tomkins and his Contemporaries
274
833
304
William Child his Contemporaries and the Stile
340
91
356
Published for the recreation of all such
370

a Comparison of some Primary
104
Trends and Influences
135
the order of Common Prayer
157
Some Sixteenth and Early SeventeenthCentury
161
Edwardian and Early Elizabethan Church Music
172
95
383
Bibliography
427
Index
443
104
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