O Sing unto the Lord
A History of English Church Music
- Contents
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1 In the Beginning
2 Music for a New Millennium
3 The Fifteenth Century: Possibilities and Promise
4 Keeping Your Head: The Approach of the Reformation, 1509–1547
5 The Children of Henry VIII: Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1547–1558
6 Church Music and Society in Elizabeth’s England, 1558–1603
7 Plots, Scots, Politics and the Beauty of Holiness, 1603–1645
8 Interregnum, 1644–1660
9 Restoration, 1660–1714
10 The Enlightenment, 1712–1760
11 West Galleries and Wesleys, Methodists and Mendelssohn, 1760–1850
12 Renewal, 1837–1901
13 Composers from S. S. Wesley to Elgar, 1830–1934
14 The Splintering of the Tradition, 1914–2015
Epilogue
Notes
Further investigations
Acknowledgements
Illustration credits
Index
History: British and Irish History | European History
Music: General Music
Religion: Christianity | Religion and Society
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