English Chorister - A History

Informationen zum Autor Alan Mould was an ex-headmaster of St John's College choir school, Cambridge. His other publications include Choirs and Spaces Where They Cling. Klappentext Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. They are treasured as a unique part of our religious and cultural heritage, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Yet their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, in Georgian neglect and Victorian revival, to their CD-celebrated triumphs of today and the introduction of girls, has never before been told. The English Chorister, with its vivid, sometimes bizarre, sometimes hilarious detail, will interest musicologists, church historians and a wide general readership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Beginnings 2. Anglo-Saxon Choir Children 3. Choristers of the High Middle Ages 4. The Great Flowering 5. Pre-Reformation Choristers 6. Turmoil 7. From Elizabeth I to Cromwell 8. Chorister Actors 9. Restoration 10. Georgian Nadir 11. The Seeds of Reform 12. The Fruits of Reform 13. Foundations, Liturgy and Music 14. The Twentieth-Century Choir School 15. Challenge and Presponse 16. Choristership Acknowledgements Abbreviations Bibliographies Index

Product details

• Authors: Alan Mould, Mould Alan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2007
• EAN: 9781847250582
• ISBN: 978-1-84725-058-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Musikgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, MUSIC / Religious / General, General and world history, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres