In Tuneful Accord: The Church MusiciansContinuing his successful series of portraits of the many characterful individuals who have helped make the Church of England the institution that it is, Trevor Beeson turns his attention to the outstanding musicians who have definitively influenced its worship over the centuries. The image of Sung Evensong may seem timeless, but the patterns of Anglican worship have changed continuously. Beginning with the great Victorian modernizers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, we are taken on a memorable and entertaining musical tour that takes in the impact of the Wesleys, the publication of Hymns Ancient & Modern, the great organ builders, Willis and Walker, Vaughan Williams and the English Hymnal, the Royal School of Church Music and the hymn writing explosion and the electronic age. All this and more in Trevor's inimitable and sharply observant style. |
Contents
The Changing Pattern of Anglican Worship | 1 |
The Victorian Musical Inheritance | 13 |
The Last of the Old Wine John Goss | 17 |
The Beginnings of Reform Samuel Sebastian Wesley | 23 |
NineteenthCentury Hymn Writers and Composers | 33 |
Frederick Ouseley and St Michaels College Tenbury | 42 |
The Parish Church Choirs | 46 |
John Stainer at St Pauls | 53 |
MidTwentiethCentury Explorers | 122 |
The Oxbridge Choirs | 131 |
The Minor Canons and Precentors | 147 |
The York Succession | 159 |
Two PostWar Giants | 167 |
A Contemporary Contrast | 178 |
Beyond Atonal Modernism | 185 |
Not Forgetting the Parishes | 199 |
The Revival of English Music Edward Elgar | 59 |
Glad Confident Morning | 68 |
The Abbey Comes Alive Frederick Bridge | 78 |
MuchLoved Uncle Ralph Vaughan Williams | 85 |
Sydney Nicholson and the Royal School of Church Music | 95 |
The Choristers | 103 |
The Viennese and Parisian Innovators III | 111 |
Revolution in the Cathedral and the Rediscovery of the CounterTenor | 208 |
The TwentiethCentury Renewal of Hymnody | 215 |
Coda Three Challenges | 225 |
Further Reading | 228 |
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