Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

by Peter Le Huray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521294188
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/14/1978
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Music
Edition description:	Reprinted with corrections
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

1. Music and the English Reformation; 2. The Elizabethan Settlement; 3. The Chapel Royal; 4. Some Performance Problems; 5. Trends and Influences; 6. '… the order of Common Prayer as it is to be sung in Churches'; 7. Edwardian and Early Elizabethan Church Music; 8. The Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: William Byrd and his Contemporaries; 9. Thomas Tomkins and his Contemporaries; 10. William Child, his Contemporaries and the Stile Ntiovo in England; 11. Published '… for the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke'.