English Church Composers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Church Composers

English church music began to assume a definite shape and character soon after the Reformation. The encouragement given to the practice of music by the successive sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty, both by their precept and example, laid the foundation of a school of music distinctly national, which would pro bably have had its due influence over other schools had it been suffered to develop itself Without interruption. Beginning With the humblest and most ...