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"A good quire of voices" : the provision of choral music at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Eton College, c. 1640-1733 / Keri Dexter.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1531.8.E86 D48 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dexter, Keri.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Eton College--Choral organizations.
Eton College.
St. George's Chapel (Windsor Castle). Choir.
St. George's Chapel (Windsor Castle).
Choral music--England--Eton.
Choral music.
Choral music--England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead).
Choirs (Music).
History.
England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead).
Choirs (Music)--England--Eton--History--17th century.
Choirs (Music)--England--Eton--History--18th century.
Choirs (Music)--England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)--History--17th century.
Choirs (Music)--England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)--History--18th century.
England--Eton.
Physical Description:
xvi, 579 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
Contents:
Windsor Castle and St George's Chapel 1
Eton College Before the Civil War 4
Sources and Methods 6
An Overview of the Musical Sources 9
2 Continuity of Service(s): the Choir of Eton College, 1640-75 11
Continuity of Service(s) and the Directory for Public Worship 12
Eton under Charles II: Restoring Choral Worship 29
The Hidden Legacy of the Civil War and Commonwealth 35
3 The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor, 1660-1733 43
Choristers and their Master 44
The Recruitment and Succession of Lay Clerks 64
Appointment Procedures and Terms of Probation 80
The Changing Role of the Petty Canon 93
Choirs Salaries and Additional Earnings 104
4 St George's Chapel: Links with Eton and the Chapel Royal 113
Pluralism and the Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor 113
Royal Chapels and the Chapel Royal 131
5 The St George's Chapel Partbooks, Copyists and Repertoire 143
The Windsor Music Copyists 144
SGC 1-4: The Windsor Repertoire, 1660-c.1683 151
Lbl Add. MS 17784, Barnard and the 'True' Windsor Repertoire 174
The Evolution of the Early Post-Restoration Repertoire 190
Early Eighteenth-Century Dissemination and Performance 193
I Biographical Directory of the St George's Chapel and Eton College Choirs, 1600-1760 211
II Catalogue of Music Manuscripts 359
Directory of Windsor and Eton Copyists 362
Eton College Organ Books (ECR 299) 365
Catalogue of Incipits for Unidentified Works 396
St George's Chapel Partbooks
SGC 1 398
SGC 1a 411
SGC 2 421
SGC 2a 433
SGC 3 443
SGC 4 459
SGC 5-10 473
SGC 11 498
SGC 12 509
SGC 13 520
SGC 18-20 532
SGC 46 533
Selected St George's Chapel Organ Books
SGC 55 537
SGC 57 540.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-564) and index.
ISBN:
0754605604
OCLC:
49240070

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