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• Title:O sing unto the Lord : a history of English church music / Andrew Gant.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gant, Andrew, 1963- author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Profile Books, 2015.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML2931 .G36 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Church music--England.
  
• Description:x, 454 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the role church music has played in ordinary lives and how it reflects those lives back to us. The author considers why church music remains so popular and frequently tops the classical charts and why the BBC's Choral Evensong remains the longest-running radio series ever. He shows how England's church music follows the contours of its history and is the soundtrack of its changing politics and culture, from the mysteries of the Mass to the elegant decorum of the Restoration anthem, from stern Puritanism to Victorian bombast, and thence to the fractured worlds of the twentieth century as heard in the music of Vaughan Williams and Britten. This is a book for everyone interested in the history of English music, culture and society."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1781252475
  9781781252475
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. In the Beginning
  2. Music for a New Millennium
  3. Fifteenth Century: Possibilities and Promise
  4. Keeping your Head: The Approach of the Reformation, 1509
  1547
  5. Children of Henry VIII: Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1547
  1558
  6. Church Music and Society in Elizabeth's England, 1558
  1603
  7. Plots, Scots, Politics and the Beauty of Holiness, 1603
  1645
  8. Interregnum, 1644
  1660
  9. Restoration, 1660
  1714
  10. Enlightenment, 1712
  1760
  11. West Galleries and Wesleys, Methodists and Mendelssohn, 1760
  1850
  12. Renewal, 1837
  1901
  13. Composers from S. S. Wesley to Elgar, 1830
  1934
  14. Splintering of the Tradition, 1914
  2015.