The English Plainchant Revival
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 June 1999
- ISBN 9780198165958
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 242x162x28 mm
- Weight 768 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous music examples, figures 0
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Short description:
The revival of plainchant in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England was a turning point in the history of Anglican and Catholic musical worship. It led in its time to not only the preservation of much-loved melodies, but also to heated controversy. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, plainchant had returned as a central part of traditional liturgy.
This study provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.
Long description:
This study provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Part I examines the eighteenth-century Catholic revival, in particular the work of John Frances Wade, a Roman Catholic plainchant scribe and publisher. His work centred on the Roman Catholic foreign embassy chapels in London during the waning years of the recusancy period, and his collaboration with contemporary publishers and musicians is evidenced in numerous contemporary letters, music manuscripts, and printed works. In Part II the starting point for the Roman Catholic revival is Novello's A Collection of Sacred Music and for the Anglican revival, Reinagle's A Collection of Psalm & Hymn Tunes. Pro-Gregorian enthusiasts monitored the progress of the revival well into the nineteenth century, but it was not until the late 1830s that plainchant became a cause célèbre in Anglican and Catholic worship alike. A multiplicity of plainchant publications followed well into the 1870s, with Thomas Helmores ranking first among them. By this time plainchant had become an integral, albeit controversial, part of musical worship in both churches.
Bennett Zon brings together a host of previously undiscovered or unknown eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, drawing mainly upon printed and manuscript works. Contemporary periodical and occasional literature provide further insight into their musical and social contexts.
This is as much a source book for ecclesiastical history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it is a chronicling of the plainchant revival, and it will be of interest to ecclesiastical historians, plainchant enthusiasts, church musicians, and bibliographers.
Comprehensive ... a vital reference manual for scholars wishing to pursue further research in this field.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Conventions of Terminology, Reference, and Presentation
Abbreviations
Location of Manuscripts and Printed Books
Preface
Part I: The Plainchant Revival in the Eighteenth-Century Roman Catholic Church in England
Introduction to Part 1
A General Introduction to Post-Tridentine Liturgical Books and Plainchant in Europe
Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Roman Catholic History in England
Plainchant in the English Catholic Church, 1748-1799
The Works of John Francis Wade
Manuscripts by Scribes Other than Wade
Part II: The English Plainchant Revival in the Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches
Introduction to Part II: The Revival of Plainchant in the Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholic Church in England
English Catholic Plainchant, the beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the 1850s
Roman Catholic Plainchant Apologetics, the 1840s to 50s
Nineteenth-Century Anglican Plainchant Sources
Anglican Plainchant Apologetics, the 1820s to 60s
Epilogue: Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Revival in England
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