Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from
Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music
and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the
role church music has played in ordinary lives and how it reflects
those lives back to us. The author considers why church music
remains so popular and frequently tops the classical charts and why
the BBC's Choral Evensong remains the longest-running radio series
ever. He shows how England's church music follows the contours of
its history and is the soundtrack of its changing politics and
culture, from the mysteries of the Mass to the elegant decorum of
the Restoration anthem, from stern Puritanism to Victorian bombast,
and thence to the fractured worlds of the twentieth century as
heard in the music of Vaughan Williams and Britten. This is a book
for everyone interested in the history of English music, culture
and society.
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