Roman Catholic church music in England, 1791-1914
Subtitle: a handmaid of the liturgy?
By: by T.E. Muir.
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780754661054
Subjects: Church music -- England -- 19th century; Church music -- Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-277), discography (p. ), and index.
Table of contents: title: Heritage, history and liturgy. Nineteenth-century English Catholic music : a neglected heritage ; The historical background ; The liturgical framework; title: Catholic music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Plainchant in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; title: Music at the London embassy chapels and their successors; title: Ultramontane influences on Catholic church music. Plainchant reinterpreted ; The revival of renaissance polyphony; title: Music for extra-liturgical services. Catholic vernacular hymnody c. 1842-1913 ; Music for benediction; title: 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.