Research Catalog

Title

In tuneful accord : the church musicians / Trevor Beeson.

Author

Beeson, Trevor.

Publication

London : SCM, 2009.

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Details

Description

x, 246 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Continuing his successful series of portraits of the many characterful individuals who have helped make the Church of England the institution that it is, Trevor Beeson turns his attention to the outstanding musicians who have definitively influenced its worship over the centuries. The image of Sung Evensong may seem timeless, but the patterns of Anglican worship have changed continuously. Beginning with the great Victorian modernizers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, we are taken on a memorable and entertaining musical tour that takes in the impact of the Wesleys, the publication of Hymns Ancient & Modern, the great organ builders, Willis and Walker, Vaughan Williams and the English Hymnal, the Royal School of Church Music, the hymn writing explosion and the electronic age. All this and more in Trevor's inimitable and sharply observant style."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Church musicians > Biography
• Church music > Church of England
• Church music

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The changing pattern of Anglican worship -- The Victorian musical inheritance -- The last of the old wine: John Goss -- The beginnings of reform: Samuel Sebastian Wesley -- Nineteenth-century hymn writers and composers -- Frederick Ouseley and St. Mchael's College, Tenbury -- The parish church choirs -- John Stainer at St. Paul's -- The revival of English music: Edward Elgar -- Glad, confident morning -- The abbey comes alive: Frederick Bridge -- Much-loved uncle Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Sydney Nicholson and the Royal School of Church Music -- The choristers -- The Viennese and Parisian innovators -- Mid-twentieth-century explorers -- The Oxbridge choirs -- The minor canons and precentors -- The York succession -- Two post-war giants -- A contemporary contrast -- Beyond atonal modernism -- Not forgetting the parishes -- Revolution in the cathedral and the rediscovery of the counter-tenor -- The twentieth-century renewal of hymnody -- Coda: three challenges.

Call Number

JME 10-270

ISBN

• 9780334041931 (hbk.)
• 0334041937 (hbk.)

OCLC

278425485

Author

Beeson, Trevor.

Title

In tuneful accord : the church musicians / Trevor Beeson.

Imprint

London : SCM, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Research Call Number

JME 10-270