English church polyphony : singers and sources from the 14th to the 17th century / Roger Bowers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowers, Roger.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS633.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--England.

Church music.

England.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [1999]

Contents:

Church Polyphony, c.1320-1558: Performance and Notation

I The Performing Ensemble for English Church Polyphony, c.1320-c.1390 (Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, ed. Stanley Boorman. Cambridge, 1983)

II To Chorus from Quartet: The Performing Resource for English Church Polyphony, c.1390-1559 (English Choral Practice, 1400-1650, ed. John Morehen. Cambridge, 1995)

III The Vocal Scoring, Choral Balance and Performing Pitch of Latin Church Polyphony in England, c.1500-1558 (Journal of the Royal Musical Society 112. Oxford, 1987)

Choirs and Their Music From the Middle Ages to the Civil Wars

IV Canterbury Cathedral: The Liturgy of the Cathedral and its Music, c.1075-1642 (A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsey and M. Sparks. Oxford, 1995)

V The Musicians of the Lady Chapel of Winchester Cathedral Priory, 1402-1539 (Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45. Cambridge, 1994)

VI Lincoln Cathedral: Music and Worship to 1640 (A History of Lincoln Minster, ed. Dorothy Owen. Cambridge, 1994)

VII The Cultivation and Promotion of Music in the Household and Orbit of Thomas Wolsey (Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art, ed. S.J. Gunn and P.G. Lindley. Cambridge, 1991)

Composition and Employment in Cathedral and Household Chapel

VIII Fixed Points in the Chronology of English Fourteenth-Century Polyphony (Music & Letters 72. Oxford, 1990)

IX Some Observations on the Life and Career of Lionel Power (Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 102. Oxford, 1975-6)

X Obligation, Agency, and Laissez-faire: The Promotion of Polyphonic Composition for the Church in Fifteenth-Century England (Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. I. A. Fenlon. Cambridge, 1981).

Notes:

Previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0860787788

OCLC:

40534130