English Cathedral Music And Liturgy In The Twentieth Century

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317143208

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English Cathedral Music and Liturgy in the Twentieth Century by Martin Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Erik Routley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Church music
ISBN : UOM:39015025170732

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Twentieth Century Church Music by Erik Routley Pdf

First published in 1964.

Author : T.E. Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317061830

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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? by T.E. Muir Pdf

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.

Author : Paul F. Bradshaw
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334049425

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New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship by Paul F. Bradshaw Pdf

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

Author : William J. Gatens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521268087

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Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice by William J. Gatens Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Platten
Publisher : Sacristy Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781910519769

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Holy Ground by Stephen Platten Pdf

Cathedrals are one area of the church’s life where increasingly the unchurched and the half-believer encounter God, and where the institutions of our society instinctively engage with the Christian gospel. Holy Ground digs deep into the life of England’s cathedrals, and discusses such diverse topics as finance, growth, heritage, liturgy, development, music and art.

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574671227

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Choral Music in the Twentieth Century by Nick Strimple Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Gant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226469621

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O Sing Unto the Lord by Andrew Gant Pdf

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 : Erik Routley
Publisher : London [etc.] : Mowbrays
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042408455

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A Short History of English Church Music by Erik Routley Pdf

"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.

Author : Ruth Mack Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anglican chants
ISBN : 0198164246

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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820 by Ruth Mack Wilson Pdf

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.

Author : T.E. Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church music
ISBN : 1315606836

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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791-1914 by T.E. Muir Pdf

Author : Erwin Esser Nemmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Church music
ISBN : UOM:39015028462854

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Twenty Centuries of Catholic Church Music by Erwin Esser Nemmers Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas Temperley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521023378

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The Music of the English Parish Church: Volume 2 by Nicholas Temperley Pdf

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. 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. This volume provides an anthology of parish church music of all kinds from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, newly edited from primary sources for study or for performance.

Author : Stephanie Rocke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000300192

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The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass by Stephanie Rocke Pdf

The mass is an extraordinary musical form. Whereas other Western art music genres from medieval times have fallen out of favour, the mass has not merely survived but flourished. A variety of historical forces within religious, secular, and musical arenas saw the mass expand well beyond its origins as a cycle of medieval chants, become concertised and ultimately bifurcate. Even as Western societies moved away from their Christian origins to become the religiously plural and politically secular societies of today, and the Church itself moved in favour of congregational singing, composers continued to compose masses. By the early twentieth century two forms of mass existed: the liturgical mass composed for church services, and the concert mass composed for secular venues. Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the liturgical texts, defines the concert mass, explains how and why the split occurred, and provides examples that demonstrate composers’ gradual appropriation of the genre as a vehicle for personal expression on serious issues. By the end of the twentieth century the concert mass had become a repository for an eclectic range of theological and political ideas.

Author : Charles Winfred Douglas,Winfred Douglas
Publisher : New York, Scribner
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X030462233

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Church Music in History and Practice by Charles Winfred Douglas,Winfred Douglas Pdf

"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.