Author: Trevor Beeson
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334048133
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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This is a superbly entertaining overview of the Church of England over the last fifty years. The image of Sung Evensong may seem timeless, but the patterns of Anglican worship have changed continuously. Beginning with the great Victorian modernisers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, we are taken on a memorable and entertaining musical tour that takes in: the impact of the Wesleys, the publication of "Hymns Ancient & Modern", the great organ builders, Willis and Walker, Vaughan Williams and the "English Hymnal", the Royal School of Church Music, The hymn writing explosion and the electronic age. All this and more presented here in Trevor's inimitable and sharply observant style.
Author: Jabez Thomas Sunderland
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Author: Charles Stanley Hervé
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385471214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
Pages : 2284
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Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: Andrew Gant
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646962X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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In this expansive cultural history, Andrew Gant traces English sacred music from the Latin chant of late antiquity to the great proliferation and diversification of styles seen in contemporary repertoires. The book explores church music in its great variety of forms and performance contexts: cathedral music and music performed at small country parishes, hymns sung in church and at gatherings, all the way up to today’s mixture and hybridization of the traditional and contemporary styles. Most of all, it illuminates how political battles and sweeping changes in worship affected the church music profession; how musicians, clergy, and worshipers responded; and how the repertory was reinvented many times over as a result. This work was first brought out by Profile Books in 2015. The author has contributed a new preface for our edition, offering reflections on English church music in its American contexts.
Author: Matthias Range
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The first in-depth study of the ceremonial and music performed at British royal and state funerals over the past 400 years.
Author: Beatrice-May Butt
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143191
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This book examines the stylistic development of English cathedral music during a period of liturgical upheaval, looking at the attitudes of cathedral clergy, liturgists, composers, leading church music figures and organisations to music and liturgy. Arguments that were advanced for retaining an archaic style in cathedral music are considered, including the linking of musical style with liturgical language, the recommending of a subservient role for music in the liturgy, and the development of a language of fittingness to describe church music. The roles of the RSCM and other influential bodies are explored. Martin Thomas draws on many sources: the libraries and archives of English cathedrals; contemporary press coverage and the records of church music bodies; publishing practices; secondary literature; and the music itself. Concluding that an arresting of development in English cathedral music has prevented appropriate influences from secular music being felt, Thomas contrasts this with how cathedrals have often successfully and dynamically engaged with the world of the visual arts, particularly in painting and sculpture. Presenting implications for all denominations and for patronage of the arts by churches, and the place of musical aesthetics in the planning of liturgy, this book offers an important resource for music, theology, liturgy students and ministry teams worldwide.
