English Choral Practice, 1400-1650John Morehen This is the first book to survey the performing practices in English choral music in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the period of the English Reformation. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, consider in depth such areas as the growth and development of the 'church' choir, related issues of vocal tessitura, performing pitch, the systems of pronunciation appropriate for Latin- and English-texted music, and the day-to-day training of choristers. There is also an investigation of the local circumstances under which many of the important manuscripts of the period were compiled, which reveals an unsuspectedly close interrelationship between domestic music and music for the church. In addition, a study of surviving sources reveals that they give little more than a general guide as to their composers' and copyists' intentions. |
Contents
To chorus from quartet the performing resource for English church polyphony c 13901559 | 1 |
Editing and performing musica speculativa | 48 |
The sound of Latin in England before and after the Reformation | 74 |
English pronunciation c 1500 c 1625 | 90 |
Byrd Tallis and Ferrabosco | 109 |
John Baldwin and changing concepts of text underlay | 143 |
Sacred songs in the chamber | 161 |
The education of choristers in England during the sixteenth century | 180 |
The burden of proof the editor as detective | 200 |
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Agnus alto anthem antiphon Baldwin bass boys Byrd Byrd's Cambridge Cantiones cantus firmus Cathedral chant Chapel Royal choir choral choristers church polyphony Clef-set composers composition contratenor contratenor and tenor countertenor Credo David Wulstan descant ditto-sign Dobson Early English Church edition Elizabethan England English Church Music English Pronunciation ensemble Eton Choirbook evidence example faburden Fayrfax Ferrabosco five-part Full/CF GB-Lbl Add GB-Ob Gloria tibi trinitas Huray John John Taverner Lady Mass Latin Lbl Add liturgical London manuscript Mass melisma mensuration modern Morley motets musicians notation notes Old Hall manuscript original overall compass Oxford partbooks passages performance period Peter le Huray phonetic pieces plainsong polyphony quam glorifica range repertory rhyme Royal Musical Association semitones Service singers singing sixteenth century songs sounding pitch sources standard sung surviving syllable Tallis Tallis's Taverner Tenbury tenor Thomas Thomas Morley timbres treble underlay vocal scoring voices vowel William words