English Cathedral Music And Liturgy In The Twentieth Century

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English Cathedral Music and Liturgy in the Twentieth Century

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143205
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book English Cathedral Music and Liturgy in the Twentieth Century written by Martin Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Twentieth Century Church Music

Author : Erik Routley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Church Music written by Erik Routley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964.

Choral Music in the Twentieth Century

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671223
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical works for chorus are among the great masterpieces of 20th-century art. This guide, the first truly comprehensive volume on the choral music of the last century, covers the spectacular range of music for vocal ensembles, from Saint-Saens to Tan Dun. The book will be essential to every choral conductor and a valuable resource for choir members, choral societies and choruses.

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

Author : T.E. Muir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061837
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? written by T.E. Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship

Author : Paul F. Bradshaw
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334049423
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship written by Paul F. Bradshaw and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work incorporates the insights and expertise of leading liturgists and scholars of liturgy at work today, comprising 200 entries on important topics in the field, from vestments and offertories to ordination and divine unction. It is systematically organized and alphabetically arranged for ease of use. It also includes comprehensive bibliographies and reading lists, to bring the work fully up to date and to encourage further reading and research

Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice

Author : William J. Gatens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521268080
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice written by William J. Gatens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-11-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical assessment of Victorian cathedral music, unique in its detailed treatment of the cultural intellectual, philosophical and religious issues that shaped the composer's creative world and so influenced compositional practice. Among the issues investigated by William Gatens are the status of music in Church and society, the Victorians' views on the moral dimension of music, the aesthetic implications of Christian orthodoxy and notions of stylistic propriety. The careers and works of seven eminent composers - Thomas Attwood, T. A. Walmisley, John Goss, S. S. Wesley, F. A. G. Ouseley, John Stainer and Joseph Barnby - are discussed in some detail with emphasis on anthems and fully composed service settings. These provide specific illustrations of stylistic trends and the practical effects of theoretical principles. The study seeks to correct some of the misunderstandings and distortions that were common among earlier twentieth-century writers on the subject.

O Sing unto the Lord

Author : Andrew Gant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646976X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book O Sing unto the Lord written by Andrew Gant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as people have worshipped together, music has played a key role in church life. With O Sing unto the Lord, Andrew Gant offers a fascinating history of English church music, from the Latin chant of late antiquity to the great proliferation of styles seen in contemporary repertoires. The ornate complexity of pre-Reformation Catholic liturgies revealed the exclusive nature of this form of worship. By contrast, simple English psalms, set to well-known folk songs, summed up the aims of the Reformation with its music for everyone. The Enlightenment brought hymns, the Methodists and Victorians a new delight in the beauty and emotion of worship. Today, church music mirrors our multifaceted worldview, embracing the sounds of pop and jazz along with the more traditional music of choir and organ. And reflecting its truly global reach, the influence of English church music can be found in everything from masses sung in Korean to American Sacred Harp singing. From medieval chorales to “Amazing Grace,” West Gallery music to Christmas carols, English church music has broken through the boundaries of time, place, and denomination to remain familiar and cherished everywhere. Expansive and sure to appeal to all music lovers, O Sing unto the Lord is the biography of a tradition, a book about people, and a celebration of one of the most important sides to our cultural heritage.

Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783747293
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century written by George Corbett and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relationship between the sacred and the composition, performance, and appreciation of music. Through the theme of ‘annunciations’, this volume interrogates how, when, why, through and to whom God communicates in the Old and New Testaments. In doing so, it tackles the intimate relationship between Scriptural reflection and musical practice in the past, its present condition, and what the future might hold. Annunciations comprises three parts. Part I sets out flexible theological and compositional frameworks for a constructive relationship between the sacred and music. Part II presents the reflections of theologians and composers involved in collaborating on new pieces of sacred choral music, alongside the six new scores and links to the recordings. Part III considers the reality of programming and performing sacred works today. This volume provides an indispensable resource for scholars and artists working at the interface between theology and the arts, and for those involved in sacred music. However, it will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the ways in which the Divine communicates through word and artistry to humanity.

On the Historical Development of the Liturgy

Author : Anton Baumstark
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814660967
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book On the Historical Development of the Liturgy written by Anton Baumstark and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, Anton Baumstark delivered two lectures on the development of the Roman Rite to a gathering at the Abbey of Maria Laach. Abbot Ildefons Herwegen offered to publish those lectures, but Baumstark decided to write a book on the topic instead, which was published two years later as On the Historical Development of the Liturgy. It would be another sixteen years before he produced Comparative Liturgy, for which he is better known. Together the two books lay out Baumstark's liturgical methodology. Comparative Liturgy presents his method; On the Historical Development of the Liturgy offers his model. For nearly a century, On the Historical Development of the Liturgy has been valued by specialists in the field of liturgical studies, both for its description of comparative liturgy and for the portrayal of patterns Baumstark discerns in liturgical development. Also significant are the hypotheses Baumstark proposes and the evidence he brings to bear on problems in liturgical history. In this annotated edition, Fritz West provides the first English translation of this work by Anton Baumstark.

A Short History of English Church Music

Author : Erik Routley
Publisher : London [etc.] : Mowbrays
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of English Church Music written by Erik Routley and published by London [etc.] : Mowbrays. This book was released on 1977 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book which, as the author says 'is for those who are intelligently interested in English church music and in people'. Erik Routley is a scholar whose knowledge of Anglican church music is greater than that of many professional church musicians. His previous work on hymnody is well known and his Hymns and Human Life, among other books, has given pleasure and illumination to many. In the present work he broadens this field by approaching the difficult task of producing a brief history of church music as it has developed through the English tradition. This task is accomplished with vitality and enthusiasm. We are taken from as far back as medieval church music right through to the present and shown how the essential characteristics of each period provided a relevant contribution to the mainstream of influence shaping Anglican church music as we know it today. Dr. Routley's assessment of key works is both informative and perceptive. It enables him in his final chapters to bring the reader right up to date and to indicate ways in which new styles of music may emerge in this area in the future."--Back cover.

Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820

Author : Ruth Mack Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198164241
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820 written by Ruth Mack Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents, for the first time, a history of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and its transmission to churches in Scotland and the United States. In the mid-sixteenth century Reformation, the complex ritual of the Latin rite was replaced by a one-volumeBook of Common Prayer in English. The general nature of the new rubrics, expecially for music, left many of the details of performance to be worked out in traditional ways. Thus the music evolved from its Latin roots in oral, and later written practice. The body of music that makes up the chantingpractice of Anglican and related churches around the world is indeed diversified. Some texts of the liturgy are harmonized in four or more voice parts, often with organ accompaniment, and others are sung in plainsong. The largest group of chants, those for the psalms and canticles, has anidiosyncratic written form and a performance practice that continues to evolve in oral tradition. This music is commonly known as Anglican chant. Its origins in the seventeenth century and its codification in the eighteenth are explored in the choral establishments of the Church of England andparish churches in England, Scotland, and the United States.

Twenty Centuries of Catholic Church Music

Author : Erwin Esser Nemmers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Centuries of Catholic Church Music written by Erwin Esser Nemmers and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principles of liturgical music have, in recent years, become a subject of bitter, yet confused controversy, and until now a general source of information or background on the subject has been unavailable in English. Furthermore, most European books, because they are old, have long been out of print. The author's present work, therefore, at last offers the kind of material for which there has been great need as well as much demand. The author has written for anyone interested in or concerned with the subject of church music--whether musically trained or not. To make it easy, footnotes have been used to give an explanation of particular musical terms where they are necessary for an understanding of the text, and these definitions are cumulated in the appendix for the convenience of a ready reference. Introducing the subject by a survey of early church music up to the year A.D. 400, the author gives major treatment to the three great schools of liturgical music: Gregorian, polyphonic, and modern. He also discusses the development and use of organ music for the church and concludes with a history of American Catholic Church music. Readers will greatly appreciate the many new and original illustrations that highlight the book, the translation of the Encyclical on Sacred Music by Pius X, and the list of leading Catholic Church music periodicals. For the home library or the public book shelf, for the average reader who wishes to be generally informed as well as the student and scholar, here is reading that is interesting, informative, and an important American contribution to the existing literature on this vital aspect of Catholic worship. --Dust jacket.

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791-1914

Author : T.E. Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315606835
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791-1914 written by T.E. Muir and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Author : Ann Buckley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108654002
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland written by Ann Buckley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From music written in praise of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English saints to the selection of Gospel readings by the Dominicans, this book introduces readers to the richness of medieval liturgical culture from across Britain and Ireland. Each of its three main sections opens with a chapter that offers a contextual frame for its key themes. With contributions from leading experts in pre-Reformation music and its sources, the book's focus on Insular liturgy – rather than that of only one part of Britain or Ireland – allows readers to learn about the devotional, political and creative networks at play in shaping liturgical practices: personal, secular, monastic, lay, and professional. The opening part includes broader discussions of Uses, including that of Salisbury, and case studies explore Insular witnesses to devotional activities in honour of both local cults and widely known figures, including St Columba, St Margaret, St Katherine, and the Magi.

English Church Polyphony

Author : Roger Bowers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English Church Polyphony written by Roger Bowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the essays in this volume is the identification of the resources which between c.1320 and 1642 the English church saw fit to provide for the performance of the music of its liturgy. Individual essays describe the music and the choirs of Canterbury and Lincoln Cathedrals, Winchester Cathedral Priory and the private chapel of Cardinal Wolsey, while the personnel of the chapels of Edward III, the Black Prince and John of Gaunt emerge from study of the texts of compositions of the 14th century. From the alignment of contemporary musical and archival sources there arises a web of conclusions relating to the size of ensemble, vocal scoring and sounding pitch envisaged by its composers for English church polyphony of the period c.1320-1559. These essays thus encompass the two most profound of the revolutions to which the music of the English church was subject at this period: the inauguration and widespread adoption of choral polyphony in the years c.1455-85 and the liturgical and doctrinal Reformation of 1547 to 1563.

Church Music in History and Practice

Author : Charles Winfred Douglas
Publisher : New York, Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Church Music in History and Practice written by Charles Winfred Douglas and published by New York, Scribner. This book was released on 1937 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solidly based on the scientific research of scholars, but free from needless professional technicalities, this volume treats both the liturgical text of church services and the words of the hymns together with the music that has grown up with them as parts of an indivisible whole attuned to the worship of God. The lecture series given by Canon Douglas at the invitation of the Committee of the Hale Foundation at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary has served as the basis for the extensive synthesis which the author has accomplished in this volume. In preparing the work he has had in mind primarily the needs of Clergy, Seminarians and Organists, as well as interested laymen, and it is his purpose to teach as clearly and concisely as possible the underlying principles of musical worship, too often forgotten or never acquired. His work first traces the relationship between worship and music from the beginning of the Christian Church to the present time. The author has not attempted to give a detailed history of the art of music, but has followed the development of Christian liturgical worship and the Christian Hymns with the music that expressed them in significant periods of Church History. He then arrives at practical and intelligent conclusions regarding the present musical worship of the Church and promulgates, and illustrates the principles that should govern the composition, the choice, and the performance of liturgical Church Music today." -- BOOK JACKET.

Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550

Author : Craig Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088343
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550 written by Craig Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the early musical life of the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame. All aspects of the musical establishment of Notre Dame are covered, from Merovingian times to the period of the wars of religion in France. Nine discrete essays discuss the history of Parisian chant and liturgy and the pattern and structure of the cathedral services in the late Middle Ages; Notre Dame polyphony and the composers most closely associated with the cathedral, among them Leoninus, Perotinus and Philippe de Vitry; the organ and its repertoire; the choir, the musical education and performing traditions; and the relationship of the cathedral to the court.