Roman Catholic church music in England, 1791-1914 :
[Book]
a handmaid of the liturgy? /
by T.E. Muir
Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2008
xviii, 288 p.
ill. ;
24 cm
Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-277), discography (p. 270), and index
Heritage, history and liturgy. The historical background ; The liturgical framework -- Catholic music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Plainchant in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Music at the London embassy chapels and their successors -- Ultramontane influences on Catholic church music. Plainchant reinterpreted ; The revival of renaissance polyphony -- Music for extra-liturgical services. Catholic vernacular hymnody c. 1842-1913 ; Music for benediction -- The iron frame: Catholic music during the early twentieth century. The new legislative framework ; Plainchant from Solesmes ; Renaissance polyphony with an English inflexion: the work of Sir Richard Terry ; Catholic church music in the early twentieth century: visions of uniformity-diverse reality