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This major study of the famous seventeenth century music manuscripts at Peterhouse sets them in the context of the religious and political movements leading to the Civil War.
The Peterhouse partbooks constitute a unique resource for studying two periods of English choral music. Their witness to musical trends at the time of the Henrician Reformation has attracted much attention since their assimilation into scholarly accounts of English music in the mid-nineteenth century. Less has been written, however, about what the collection can tell us about music on the eve of the English Civil War, in the period when the partbooks were brought together and when much of their music was composed. This volume considers the music of the partbooks as part of the broader cultural, intellectual, and material history of the 1630s. It breaks new ground in describing the institutional context for the creation of the partbooks and in providing an account of the materials used in them, as well as analysis of the scribal cultures from which they originated. For the first time, it properly situates the partbooks within the developing ecclesiology of the Church of England and investigates the influence of local and personal commitments on the liturgy and practice for which they were compiled.
Local and personal factors shaped the implementation of national political and religious change in the 1630s and this volume shows how these forces came together in short-lived and contentious innovation in cultural and intellectual life. Contributions consider the extent to which musical renewal formed part of a conscious programme of architectural, artistic, literary, and liturgical change whose purpose was to redirect the education and formation of future generations of priests and patrons within the Church of England. While exploring the mechanisms of change, they also consider the force of reaction to and dissatisfaction with novelty and the resulting turmoil, iconoclasm, and exile that transformed the careers of the protagonists in the story of the partbooks. Although particular in focus, the volume demonstrates how political, intellectual, and religious dispute infiltrated the lives of individuals and communities and generated conflicts that proved impossible to control. The story of the Peterhouse partbooks provides an unusually rich opportunity to review a critical period of British history through the prism provided by a remarkable example of musical and cultural survival.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Concordance of Shelfmarks
List of Contributors
Introduction - Scott Mandelbrote
1. Music in the Early Modern English Parish Church - John Craig
2. The Pre-Civil War University of Cambridge: Some Musical and Cultural Contexts - Tom Dixon
3. Not Entirely Thwarted: Sources for the Evidence of Music-Making in Cambridge University in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - David McKitterick
4. Iconoclasm, Alienation, and Rebirth: Peterhouse and its Chapel in the Context of the English Reformation - Nicholas Tyacke
5. 'A complete mirror of Innovation, Superstition and Oppression': The Theology of Matthew Wren- Stephen Hampton
6. The Early Career and Beliefs of John Cosin - Anthony Milton
7. The Construction and 'Inward Adorning' of Peterhouse Chapel, 1628-40 - David Scott
8. The Power and the Glory: John Cosin and Architectural Interchange between Durham and Cambridge - Adrian Green
9. 'A little chapel, but much popery': Peterhouse, William Dowsing and Iconoclasm in the 1640s - John Walter
10. The Seventeenth-Century Context of Peterhouse Chapel and Latin Books of Common Prayer - Bryan D. Spinks
11. The Musical Establishment at Peterhouse, 1635-43 - Ian Payne
12. Peterhouse: The Organ in the New Chapel, 1635-43 - Nicholas Thistlethwaite
13. The Henrician Partbooks at Peterhouse: Their Genesis, Significance and Implications - Nick Sandon
14. A Study in Manuscript Transmission: Error, Amendment, and Divergence in John Taverner's 'Meane Mass' - Roger Bowers
15. Recurrent Ideologies: Continental Music and the Henrician Partbooks at Peterhouse - Iain Fenlon
16. The Peterhouse Caroline Partbooks: A 'Showcase' Repertoire - John Morehen
17. The Durham Connection - Brian Crosby
18. The Repertoire of Peterhouse's Chapel: Evidence from the Folio Prayer Books and Organ Book - Scott Metcalfe
19. Widening the Cambridge Circle: Further High-Church Musical Connections - Jonathan P. Wainwright
20. Performance Practice in Peterhouse's Chapel: Scoring, Voice Types, Number of Singers, and Pitch - Scott Metcalfe
21. The Culture of Partleaves: Peterhouse and Beyond - John Milsom
22. John Jebb and the Revival of Tudor and Early Stuart Music in the Church of England in the Nineteenth Century - William Jacob
23. The Bindings of the Peterhouse Music Manuscripts - David Pearson
24. Stitched and Bound: The Binding Structures and the Restoration of the Peterhouse Music Manuscripts - Nicholas Pickwoad
25. Watermark Evidence from the Peterhouse Music Manuscripts - Ruby Reid Thompson
26. John Cosin and Printing for the Peterhouse Chapel - Scott Mandelbrote
27. Richard Crashaw: Poetry and Perversion in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge - Scott Mandelbrote
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