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Restoration Cathedral Music, 1660-1714

  • Hardback
  • 504 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 3.2 cm

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For music enthusiasts and church musicians alike

Reveals hidden treasures of Anglican choral music

You will deepen your understanding of historical music

Discover the rich tapestry of Restoration cathedral music from 1660-1714.

The Restoration of Charles II stimulated one of the greatest triumphs of Anglican cathedral music. A group of gifted men, led by Henry Purcell, succeeded in transforming the carefully preserved and revived traditions of the Golden Age of Tudor and earlier Stuart periods into a contemporary style that vigorously embraces the idioms of the French and Italian Baroque. But although perhaps a dozen masterpieces of the period remain in the cathedral repertory, few of us can have had any idea of the riches and variety of music awaiting rediscovery. Ian Spink, a leading authority on seventeenth-century English music, has carried out a remarkable new investigation of the musical sources of the period and of the archives of every cathedral and choral foundation. The result is not only a largely unfamiliar picture of the musical life and circumstance of choral foundations, from the Chapel Royal to remote Carlisle, but also a fresh assessment of the music taking in not only the work of the great men of the age - Purcell, Locke, Handel - but also many lesser masters such as Humfrey, Blow, Clarke, Weldon, and Croft.
For the first time, perhaps, the true character and shape of the Restoration period of musical history is revealed.

Restoration Cathedral Music, 1660-1714 and Singing the Faith - Full Music Edition
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  • Author

    Ian Spink

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    December 1995

  • Weight

    908g

  • Page Count

    504

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 3.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198161493

  • ISBN-10

    0198161492

  • Eden Code

    4562713

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