Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice

Contents

• 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.