Opinions on Church Music

Preface

1.THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Desiderius Erasmus--A Brief Comment about Church Music Preface

1.THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Desiderius Erasmus - A Brief Comment about Church Music

Martin Luther - Preface to Georg Rhau's Symphoniae iucundae

Thomas Cranmer - Letter to King Henry VIII

Royal Injunction to Lincoln Minster

Rules for Sacred Music by the Council of Trent

Thomas Morley - Extract from A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

2.THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

"Orders for the Attendance of the Gentlemen of his Majestes Chappell" from The Old Cheque-Book of the Chapel Royal

The Coronation Service of Charles I, from The Old Cheque-Book

Thomas Ravenscroft - Preface to Psalter (1633 edition)

Preface to the Bay Psalm Book

Edward Lowe - A Short Direction for the Performance of Cathedrall Service (Extract)

Orders to the Chapel Royal, from The Old Cheque-Book

Decree on Sacred Music by the Sacra Visita Apostolica (1665)

Thomas Mace - Extracts from Mustek's Monument

3.THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Thomas Walter - Introduction to The Grounds and Rules of Mustek Explained

Roger North - "Ecclesiasticall Musick," from The Musicall Grammarian

Johann Sebastian Bach - "Short but most necessary draft for a well-appointed Church music"

Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XIV

John Alcock - Dedication from A Morning and Evening Service

James Lyon - Dedication to Urania

William Hayes - "Rules necessary to be observed by all Cathedral-Singers in this Kingdom"

Leopold Mozart - Letter, November 1-3, 1777

Wolfgang Mozart - Letter, November 4, 1777

Charles Burney - Venice; The Sistine Chapel; Vienna

John Mellen - "The Service of God," from Religion Productive of Music

Samuel Arnold - Preface to Cathedral Music

Richard Eastcott - "Of the use and abuse of Church Music"

William Billings - "A Commentary... by way of Dialogue" from The Continental Harmony

4.THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Ludwig van Beethoven - Some letters about the Missa Solemnis

Vincent Novello - Extracts from the Travel Diaries

Felix Mendelssohn - A letter about sacred music

Thomas Hastings - Some remarks to the American Musical Convention, 1845

Raymond Seely - Some remarks to the American Musical Convention, 1845

Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Extract from A Feu' Words on Cathedral Music

Lowell Mason - Letter from Berlin, 1852, about the Cathedral Choir

The General Directions of November 18, 1856, concerning appropriate Church Music

F. A. G. Ouseley - A brief defense of English church music

R. B. Daniel - Women and boys in church choirs

Charles Villiers Stanford - "Music in Cathedral and Church Choirs"

5.THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X on Sacred Music

O. G. T. Sonneck - Extract from "A Survey of Music in America"

Archibald T. Davison - "Individualism"

H. C. Colles - "Church Music," 22 July 1922

James F. White - Excerpt from "Church Choir: Friend or Foe?"

Howard D. McKinney - "Winds of Change"

Frank Cunkle - "Invitation to Arson"

Dave Brubeck - The Light in the Wilderness, program notes

Ralph Thibodeau - "Threnody for Sacred Music, 1968 or, The People of God Have Been Had"

Stephen Koch - "God on Stage"

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