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This book is the most thorough and extensive history of English parish church music ever published, covering the period from the late middle ages to the present day. Through the ages English parish churches have resounded to all manner of music, ranging from the rich choral polyphony of Henry VIII's or Victoria's reigns to the bare unaccompanied psalm tunes of the seventeenth century. Temperley has found in this neglected field a wealth of fascinating music, as well as a host of intellectual problems to intrigue the scholar. A recurring theme of the book is the conflict between two... more
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Andrew GantThis book deals very deliberately with a side of English church music which is fascinating, and important, and wonderful, and rich, but largely ignored. (Source)

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The English Carol

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Andrew GantRoutley not only knows his subject inside out he also just loves it, but not uncritically. Above all he writes with this wonderful twinkle in his eye. (Source)

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Andrew GantThis book is, in a phrase that he uses, a description of the funeral rites of Catholic England. (Source)

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In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments in great detail, drawing on many contemporary sources to illuminate the music and its social and religious background. less
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Andrew GantLe Huray looks at how the Reformation affected composition for the English Church from the day that it started. (Source)

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The author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read--a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Ambitious, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible & covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.

Christianity will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus' message spread...
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Andrew GantHe refers back to the Old Testament, and the history of Christianity before Christ. It’s a hugely ambitious book. (Source)

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