O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music

This history of English church music is "one of the wittiest and most whimsically irreverent works of scholarship in recent memory" (The Christian Century).

For as long as people have worshipped together, music has played a key role in church life. Here, 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.

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