The English Chorister: A History

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Beginnings
• 2. Anglo-Saxon Choir Children
• 3. Choristers of the High Middle Ages
• 4. The Great Flowering
• 5. Pre-Reformation Choristers
• 6. Turmoil
• 7. From Elizabeth I to Cromwell
• 8. Chorister Actors
• 9. Restoration
• 10. Georgian Nadir
• 11. The Seeds of Reform
• 12. The Fruits of Reform
• 13. Foundations, Liturgy and Music
• 14. The Twentieth-Century Choir School
• 15. Challenge and Presponse
• 16. Choristership
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Bibliographies
• Index.