English Choral Practice, 1400–1650

Contents

• 1. To chorus from quartet: the performing resource for English church polyphony, c. 1390-1559;
• 2. Editing and performing musica speculativa;
• 3. The sound of Latin in England before and after the Reformation;
• 4. English pronunciation c. 1500-c. 1625;
• 5. Byrd, Tallis and Ferrabosco;
• 6. John Baldwin and changing concepts of text underlay;
• 7. Sacred songs in the chamber;
• 8. The education of choristers in England during the sixteenth century;
• 9. The 'burden of proof': the editor as detective.