Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

T.E. Muir

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138259713
• eBook ISBN: 9781317061830
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have since been forgotten. Apart from compositions in the latest Classical Viennese styles and their successors, much of the music performed constituted a revival or imitation of older musical genres, especially plainchant and Renaissance Polyphony. Furthermore, many pieces that had originally been intended to be performed by professional musicians for the benefit of privileged royal, aristocratic or high ecclesiastical elites were repackaged for rendition by amateurs before largely working or lower middle class congregations, many of them Irish. However, outside Catholic circles, little attention has been paid to this subject. Consequently, the achievements and widespread popularity of many composers (such as Joseph Egbert Turner, Henry George Nixon or John Richardson) within the English Catholic community have passed largely unnoticed. Worse still, much of the evidence is rapidly disappearing, partly because it no longer seems relevant to the needs of the modern Catholic Church in England. This book provides a framework of the main aspects of Catholic church music in this period, showing how and why it developed in the way it did. Dr Muir sets the music in its historical, liturgical and legal context, pointing to the ways in which the music itself can be used as evidence to throw light on the changing character of English Catholicism. As a result the book will appeal not only to scholars and students working in the field, but also to church musicians, liturgists, historians, ecclesiastics and other interested Catholic and non-Catholic parties.

Index

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.

Abt, Franz 165

Academy of Ancient Music 110

Acton, Lord 55

Adeste Fideles 17, 68−70, 76, 141, 157

Alcuin 224

Alexander VII 50

Alfieri, Pietro 96, 112, 173

Allegri, Gregorio 110, 171−2

Allen, Herbert 215−18, 235

Amigo, Peter 213

Ampleforth community 103, 247

Andrewes, Hilda 246

Andrews, Peter Paul 96−7

Andrews, William Eusebius 95

Anerio, Felice 63, 130, 241

Anglican Church 2, 16, 25, 110, 142, 167, 210−11, 251

Annus Qui 46, 59−60, 190

Apostolicum Mysterium 59

Arcadelt, Jacob 224

architecture 24−8, 96

Archpriest Controversy 17

Arkwright, G.E.P. 110

Arne, Thomas 20, 67, 70

Arnold, J.H. 2

Arrezzo, Congress of (1882) 200

Arundel Hymns 148−57, 162, 224

Arundell, Lord 71, 79

Auer, Joseph 3

Augustine, St 44, 60, 224

Austin, John 142

Aylward, J. 140, 175

Bach, J.S. 77, 167, 176, 182, 247

Baini, Giuseppe 110−12, 205, 236

Baldi, Joano 71

Bar Convent, York 52

Barbandt, Charles 76−7

Barnby, Joseph 251

Barrett, Joseph 70

Bavarian Embassy Chapel 20, 75−7, 81

Beaumont College 82, 237, 252

Beaumont Review 252

Beethoven, Ludwig Van 1, 81

Bellarmine, St Francis 192

Belmont Abbey 103, 104, 107, 210−11

Benedict XIV 46, 59, 190

Bened...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations and Terminology
• Preface
• General Editor’s Series Preface
• Introduction: Nineteenth-Century English Catholic Music: A Neglected Heritage
• I HERITAGE, HISTORY AND LITURGY
• II CATHOLIC MUSIC IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES
• III ULTRAMONTANE INFLUENCES ON CATHOLIC CHURCH MUSIC
• IV MUSIC FOR EXTRA-LITURGICAL SERVICES
• V THE IRON FRAME: CATHOLIC MUSIC DURING THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
• Conclusion: Catholic Church Music in the Early Twentieth Century: Visions of Uniformity – Diverse Reality
• Select Bibliography
• Index