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The English Chorister: A History (Hambledon Continuum)
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Product Description
Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. They are treasured as a unique part of our religious and cultural heritage, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Yet their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, in Georgian neglect and Victorain revival, to their CD-celebrated triumphs of today and the introduction of girls, has never before been told. "The English Chorister", with its vivid, sometimes bizarre, sometimes hilarious detail, will interest musicologists, church historians and a wide general readership.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #134925 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-22
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 366 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"...this timely history, going back to medieval times, helps explain the enduring appeal and mechanics of choirs."; --Unite Magazine, November 06 Mavis Compion"
About the Author
Alan Mould is an ex-headmaster of St John's College choir school, Cambridge. His other publications include Choirs and Spaces Where They Cling.
Customer Reviews
Chorister history
Going back 1400 years this is a comprehensive history of full time choristers. The only history of its kind. Some great stories of the tricks the young choristers got up to and some of the tricks the Directors of Music employed to try and catch the best.
