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Grett and solompne singing': Instruments in English Church Music before the Civil War T he spirit of enquiry that characterizes current work on performance practices of the past appears as yet to have had little impact on the world of English church music. The principal reason for this may be the belief that Anglican choral singing has continued in an unbroken tradition from at least the Restoration up to the present day. Even the music of Tallis and Byrd has never entirely disappeared from its repertory, making it all too easy, when listening to such music sung by today's cathedral or college choirs, to imagine that one is hearing, as it were, the real thing. Here, I shall be concerned with just one of many issues: the use of instruments in the Anglican Church during the 16th and early 17th centuries. Were any instruments employed other than the organ? If so, which ones and under what circumstances? Choral polyphony in England at the start of the 16th century was unquestionably the province of voices alone. But when we read of High Mass at St Paul's in 1514 being 'performed with great pomp and with vocal and instrumental music',1 we may begin to wonder whether or not this 'instrum

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2015

Language

EN