The Music of the English Parish Church: Volume 2

by Nicholas Temperley

Professor Temperley suggests that the Elizabethan metrical psalm tunes were survivors of a mode of popular music that preceded the familiar corpus of ballad tunes. Passed on by oral transmission through several generations of unregulated singing, these once lively tunes changed gradually into very slow, quavering chants. Temperley guides the reader through the complex social, theological and aesthetic movements that played their part in the formation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023378
• ISBN13: 9780521023375
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"