Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part 1 Vernacular Church Music: 'If any of you be mery let him sing psalms': the culture of psalms in church and home
• Middleburg psalms
• John Playford and the metrical psalms
• The old way of singing: its origins and development
• The Anglican communion hymn
• The origins of the fuging tune. Part 2 Artistic Church Music: Organs in English parish churches, 1660-1830
• Organ music in parish churches, 1660-1730
• Croft and the charity hymn
• The hymn books of the Foundling and Magdalen Hospital chapels
• The Lock Hospital chapel and its music
• Jonathan Gray and church music in York, 1770-1840
• Organ settings of English psalm tunes
• Ancient and modern in the work of Sir John Stainer
• Addenda and corrigenda
• Index.