'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks
new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through
a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of
religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity
formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern
period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and
emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part,
traditional historical narratives of the English Reformation have
been distinctly tone deaf. Recent scholarship has begun to take
increasing notice of some elements of Reformed musical practice,
such as the congregational singing of psalms in meter. This book
marks a significant advance in that area, combining an
understanding of theory as expressed in contemporary religious and
musical discourse, with a detailed study of the practice of church
music in key sites of religious worship. Divided into three
sections - 'Discourses', 'Sites', and 'Identities' - the book
begins with an exploration of the classical and religious
discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of
music, and its use in religious worship. It then moves on to an
investigation of the actual practice of church music in parish and
cathedral churches, before shifting its attention to the people of
Elizabethan England, and the ways in which music both served and
shaped the difficult process of Protestantisation. Through an
exploration of these issues, and by reintegrating music back into
the Elizabethan church, we gain an expanded and enriched
understanding of the complex evolution of religious identities, and
of what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation
England.
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