Music in medieval English nunneries
Subtitle: performing piety
By: Anne Bagnell Yardley.
Series: New medieval ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Church music -- England -- 500-1400.; Church music -- Catholic Church -- 500-1400.; Church music -- England -- 15th century.; Church music -- Catholic Church -- 15th century.; Nuns as musicians -- England.
Description: "What did nuns sing? How did they learn about music? How did the music affect their piety? This book answers these and many other questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wide range of historical sources, Anne Bagnall Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life. Formal monastic rules, medieval liturgical manuscripts, records from bishops' visitations to nunneries and other medieval documents provide evidence that even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and that many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.