Roman Catholic church music in England, 1791-1914 : a handmaid of the liturgy? / by T.E. Muir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muir, T.E., 1954-

Series:

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--England--19th century.

Church music.

Church music--Catholic Church.

England.

Physical Description:

xviii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]

Contents:

Heritage, history and liturgy. The historical background ; The liturgical framework

Catholic music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Plainchant in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Music at the London embassy chapels and their successors

Ultramontane influences on Catholic church music. Plainchant reinterpreted ; The revival of renaissance polyphony

Music for extra-liturgical services. Catholic vernacular hymnody c. 1842-1913 ; Music for benediction

The iron frame: Catholic music during the early twentieth century. The new legislative framework ; Plainchant from Solesmes ; Renaissance polyphony with an English inflexion: the work of Sir Richard Terry ; Catholic church music in the early twentieth century: visions of uniformity-diverse reality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-277), discography (page 270), and index.

ISBN:

9780754661054

0754661059

OCLC:

180574834