In Tuneful Accord

by Beeson, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780334041931
• ISBN10: 0334041937
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Scm Pr

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 and the hymn writing explosion and the electronic age. All this and more in Trevor's inimitable and sharply observant style.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
The Changing Pattern of Anglican Worship	p. 1
The Victorian Musical Inheritance	p. 13
The Last of the Old Wine	p. 17
The Beginnings of Reform	p. 23
Nineteenth-Century Hymn Writers and Composers	p. 33
Frederick Ouseley and St Michael's College, Tenbury	p. 42
The Parish Church Choirs	p. 46
John Stainer at St Paul's	p. 53
The Revival of English Music	p. 59
Glad, Confident Morning	p. 68
The Abbey Comes Alive	p. 78
Much-Loved Uncle	p. 85
Sydney Nicholson The Royal School of Church Music	p. 95
The Choristers	p. 103
The Viennese and Parisian Innovators	p. 111
Mid-Twentieth-Century Explorers	p. 122
The Oxbridge Choirs	p. 131
The Minor Canons and Precentors	p. 147
The York Succession	p. 159
Two Post-War Giants	p. 167
A Contemporary Contrast	p. 178
Beyond Atonal Modernism	p. 185
Not Forgetting the Parishes	p. 199
Revolution in the Cathedral and the Rediscovery of the Counter-Tenor	p. 208
The Twentieth-Century Renewal of Hymnody	p. 215
Coda - Three Challenges	p. 225
Further Reading	p. 228
Index of Musical Items	p. 230
General Index	p. 235
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