Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714

by Ian Spink

Overview

Ian Spink, a leading authority on seventeenth-century English music, has carried out a remarkable new investigation of the musical sources of the Restoration period, and of the archives of every cathedral and choral foundation. For the first time, perhaps, the true character and shape of this period of musical history is revealed, taking in the work of the great men of the age, including Purcell, Locke, and Handel, and many lesser masters such as Humfrey, Blow, Clarke, Weldon, and Croft.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198161493
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/1996
Series:	Oxford Studies in British Church Music
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.29(d)

About the Author

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

Table of Contents

	Abbreviations	xiii
Part I.	The Choral Service and Its Music
1.	Liturgy and Chant	3
2.	Services and Anthems	20
3.	Choirs and Places	41
4.	Organs and Organ Music	57
5.	Sources and Performance	75
Part II.	The Chapel Royal and Its Composers
6.	The Older Generation: Lawes, Cooke, and Locke	101
7.	Captain Cooke's Boy's: Humfrey, Blow, and Turner	115
8.	Henry Purcell	146
9.	The Younger Generation: Clarke, Weldon, and Croft	169
10.	Postscript: George Frideric Handel	186
Part III.	Cathedrals and Collegiate Foundations
	Bristol	193
	Cambridge: King's, St John's, and Trinity Colleges	195
	Canterbury	206
	Carlisle	215
	Chester	217
	Chichester	220
	Dublin	222
	Durham	229
	Ely	236
	Exeter	254
	Gloucester	259
	Hereford	265
	Lichfield	272
	Lincoln	278
	London: Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral	290
	Norwich	304
	Oxford: Christ Church, Magdalen, New, and St John's Colleges	314
	Peterborough	332
	Rochester	335
	Salisbury	338
	Wales: Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, and St David's Cathedrals	349
	Wells	354
	Winchester Cathedral and College	361
	Windsor: St George's Chapel and Eton College	370
	Worcester	393
	York	399
	Collegiate Parish Churches: Manchester, Ripon, Southwell, and Wimborne	407
	Appendices
A.	Directions for Singing Services at Ely, 1702-1708	413
B.	Dean Paul's Articles of Inquiry into the Vicars Choral of Lichfield, 1663	417
C.	Lichfield Cathedral Statutes, 1694: 'Chapter 8. Concerning the Vicars'	421
D.	Domestic Statutes of the Vicars Choral of Lichfield, 1694	425
E.	Extracts from Ely Cathedral Statutes, 1666	429
F.	Prefaces to Thomas Tudway's Services and Anthems (1715-20)	434
	Bibliography	451
	Index	467

Editorial Reviews

"Spink's very rich book is the first to put masses of information drawn from sources modern and ancient, familiar and nearly unknown, into anything approaching a useful synthetic form....Scholars are in considerable debt to Spink; all serious musical libraries must buy this book."—Choice

"Through his advocacy and interpretation, Spink has provided an extraordinary survey of the musical sources and the archives of the important foundations of the Restoration period."—Choral Journal

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