The Music of the English Parish Church: Volume 1Cambridge University Press, 1979 - 492 pages This book is the most thorough and extensive history of English parish church music ever published, covering the period from the late middle ages to the present day. Through the ages English parish churches have resounded to all manner of music, ranging from the rich choral polyphony of Henry VIII's or Victoria's reigns to the bare unaccompanied psalm tunes of the seventeenth century. Temperley has found in this neglected field a wealth of fascinating music, as well as a host of intellectual problems to intrigue the scholar. A recurring theme of the book is the conflict between two incompatible goals for Protestant parish church music: artistic performance and popular expression. Professor Temperley suggests that the Elizabethan metrical psalm tunes were survivors of a mode of popular music that preceded the familiar corpus of ballad tunes. Passed on by oral transmission through several generations of unregulated singing, these once lively tunes changed gradually into very slow, quavering chants. This later style, which came to be called 'the old way of singing', is fully described and explained here for the first time. Temperley guides the reader through the complex social, theological and aesthetic movements that played their part in the formation of the late Victorian ideal of the surpliced choir in every chancel, and he makes a fresh assessment of that old bugbear, the Victorian hymn tune. His findings show that the radical liturgical experiments of the last few years have not dislodged the Victorian model for the music of the English parish church. |
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... Victorian settlement ( 1850-1900 ) The ritualist controversy The middle ground : choral service Music for choral worship 244 249 253 262 266 268 276 286 The deluge of hymns 296 Character of the Victorian hymn tune 303 Organ ...
... Victorian settlement ( 1850-1900 ) The ritualist controversy The middle ground : choral service Music for choral worship 244 249 253 262 266 268 276 286 The deluge of hymns 296 Character of the Victorian hymn tune 303 Organ ...
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Contents
Tunes found in all musical editions of The whole book of psalms | 1 |
The Reformation era 153459 | 7 |
The establishment of Anglicanism 15591644 | 40 |
Commonwealth and Restoration 16441700 | 77 |
Psalm tunes printed or recommended during | 83 |
Urban parish church music 16601790 | 100 |
Incidence of organs in parish churches of selected areas in 1801 | 112 |
Country psalmody 16851830 | 141 |
Contents of successive editions of Chethams Psalmody | 183 |
Makeup of sample parish church bands | 197 |
Reform movements 17601830 | 206 |
Tunes most frequently found on church barrel organs | 236 |
The rediscovery of tradition 180050 | 244 |
The Victorian settlement 18501900 | 268 |
Characteristics of services in London and suburban parish | 279 |
The twentieth century | 315 |
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