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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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