Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900

Nicholas Temperley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000947670
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, The Music of the English Parish Church; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in The New Grove. This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from various journals and symposia, both British and American, that are often hard to find and may be less familiar to many scholars and students in the field. Here we have studies of how singing in church strayed from artistic control during its neglect in the 16th and 17th centuries, how the vernacular 'fuging tune' of West Gallery choirs grew up, and how individuals like Playford, Croft, Madan, and Stainer set about raising artistic standards. There are also assessments of the part played by charity in the improvement of church music, the effect of the English organ and the reasons why it never inspired anything resembling the German organ chorale, and the origins of congregational psalm chanting in late Georgian York. Whatever the topic, Temperley takes a fresh approach based on careful research, while refusing to adopt artistic or religious preconceptions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Publisher’s Note
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• I ‘If any of you be mery let hym synge psalmes’: The Culture of Psalms in Church and Home
• II Middleburg Psalms
• III John Playford and the Metrical Psalms
• IV The Old Way of Singing: Its Origins and Development
• V The Anglican Communion Hymn
• V The Anglican Communion Hymn: Part 2. The Communion Hymn: A Continuous Tradition
• V The Anglican Communion Hymn: Part 3. The First Communion Hymn
• V The Anglican Communion Hymn: Part 4. From Wither to Wesley
• VI The Origins of the Fuging Tune
• VII Organs in English Parish Churches 1660-1830
• VIII Organ Music in Parish Churches, 1660-1730
• IX Croft and the Charity Hymn
• X The Hymn Books of the Foundling and Magdalen Hospital Chapels
• XI The Lock Hospital Chapel and its Music
• XII Jonathan Gray and Church Music in York, 1770-1840
• XIII Organ Settings of English Psalm Tunes
• XIV Ancient and Modern in the Work of Sir John Stainer
• Addenda and Corrigenda
• Index