Victorian cathedral music in theory and practice
This is a critical assessment of Victorian cathedral music, unique in its detailed treatment of the cultural intellectual, philosophical and religious issues that shaped the composer's creative world and so influenced compositional practice.
Print Book, English, 1986
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1986
ix, 227 : music ; 24 cm
9780521268080, 9780521104838, 0521268087, 0521104831
13004539
Part I. Victorian cathedral music in theory: issues that shaped the composer's creative world: 1. The malaise of neo-puritanism; 2. Morality, singing and church music; 3. Orthodoxy and the composer; 4. Properties and constraints; Part II. Victorian cathedral music in practice: selected composers and their works: 5. Thomas Attwood, forefather of Victorian cathedral music; 6. Thomas Attwood Walmisley and John Goss, the first Victorian generation; 7. Samuel Sebastian Wesley, a frustrated romantic; 8. Sir Frederick Ouseley: the timeless idiom and beyond; 9. John Stainer and Joseph Barnby: the High Victorian idiom; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Includes indexes