Mapping the soundscape: Church music in English towns, 1450-1550

Early Music History

Volumn 19, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-42

  Burgess, Clive ^a   Wathey, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001927004     PISSN: 02611279     EISSN: 14740559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0261127900001959     Document Type: Review

References (61)

1. See in particular E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (London, 1992)
2. C. Burgess, '"By Quick and by Dead": Wills and Pious Provision in Later Medieval Bristol', English Historical Review, 102 (1987), pp. 837-58
3. idem, 'London Parishes: Development in Context', in R. Britnell (ed.), Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages (Stroud, 1998), pp. 151-74
4. See also, among numerous other studies, N. P. Tanner, The Church in Late Medieval Norwich, 1370-1532 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Studies and Texts, 66; Toronto, 1984)
5. R. Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History; Cambridge, 1989)
6. See, for example, G. Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540 (Oxford, 1989)
7. A. Dyer, Decline and Growth in English Towns, 1400-1640 (New Studies in Economic and Social History; Cambridge, 1991)
8. idem, 'A London Church in Tudor Times', Music & Letters, 36 (1955), pp. 55-64
9. and 'A London Guild of Musicians, 1460-1530', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 83 (1956-7), pp. 15-28
10. See also the remarks in A. Wathey, Music in the Royal and Noble Households in Late Medieval England: Studies of Sources and Patronage (New York and London, 1989), pp. 165-7
11. idem, 'Editorial [Music in Tudor London]', Early Music, 25 (1997), pp. 180-2
12. For example, Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars
13. K. L. French, G. G. Gibbs and B. A. Kümin (eds), The Parish in English Life 1400-1600 (Manchester and New York, 1997)
14. and P. Collinson and J. Craig (eds), The Reformation in English Towns, 1540-1640 (Basingstoke, 1998)
15. Among much else, see R. Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700 (Oxford, 1994)
16. C. Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1987-1988 (Oxford, 1990)
17. C. Rawcliffe, Medicine for the Soul: The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital, St Giles's, Norwich, c.1249-1550 (Stroud, 1999)
18. for its effects, see for example C. Cross, Church and People, 1450-1660 (London, 1976)
19. see also J. J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People (Oxford, 1984), whose conclusions are more pessimistic
20. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, especially Part I, pp. 9-376
21. See A. H. Thompson, The English Clergy and their Organization in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford, 1947), p. 128, who led the way with the judgement that 'There is no period at which money was lavished so freely on [the fabric of] English churches as in the fifteenth century'
22. see also C. Burgess, '"A fond thing vainly invented": An Essay on Purgatory and Pious Motive in Late Medieval England', in S. J. Wright (ed.), Parish, Church and People: Local Studies in Lay Religion, 1350-1750 (London, 1988), pp. 56-84
23. and more particularly the review of this work by R. W. Southern, Times Literary Supplement, 18 June 1982, pp. 651-2
24. Just as Christ and His apostles had been paupers, so the honest poor were thought to be close to Christ and their prayers particularly efficacious; see B. L. Manning, The People's Faith in the Age of Wyclif (2nd edn, Hassocks, 1975), chapter 10
25. may be added Dom A. Hughes, 'The Topography of English Mediaeval Polyphony', in H. Anglès et al. (ed.), In memoriam Jacques Handschin (Strassburg, 1962), pp. 127-39
26. and R. Bowers, 'Choral Institutions Within the English Church: Their Constitution and Development' (Ph.D. thesis, University of East Anglia, 1975)
27. See also Wathey, Music in the Royal and Noble Households
28. B. Haggh, 'Foundations or Institutions? On Bringing the Middle Ages into the History of Medieval Music', Acta musicologica, 58 (1996), pp. 87-128
29. For example, Rosser, Medieval Westminster, pp. 1-2
30. For crown wearings, with which this list overlaps substantially, see Liber regie capelle: A Manuscript in the Biblioteca Publica, Evora, ed. W. Ullmann (Henry Bradshaw Society, 92; London, 1961), pp. 18, 61-2
31. and for the observance of such days at the early Tudor court, see F. Kisby, '"When the King Goeth a Procession": Chapel Ceremonies and Services, the Ritual Year and Religious Reforms at the Early-Tudor Court, 1485-1547', Journal of British Studies, 40 (2001), forthcoming
32. Kisby, 'The Royal Household Chapel', pp. 192-4
33. See J. Christie, Some Account of Parish Clerks, More Especially of the Ancient Fraternity (Bretherne and Sisterne) of St. Nicholas Now Known as the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks (London, 1893), pp. 71-2
34. The Medieval Records, ed. Littlehales, ii, p. 411
35. Harrison, Music in Medieval Britain, pp. 38-45, 185-94 mentions only six (Glastonbury, Leicester, Muchelney, St Albans, Syon and Waltham) in addition to monastic cathedrals
36. see also the remarks in Bowers, 'Choral Institutions', p. 2062
37. M. Williamson, 'The Early Tudor Court, the Provinces and the Eton Choirbook', Early Music, 25 (1997), pp. 229-44, at p. 239)
38. The Register of Thetford Priory, i, p. 54
39. F. Kisby, 'Music and Musicians of Early Tudor Westminster', Early Music, 23 (1995), pp. 223-42, at p. 226
40. Music in Medieval Britain, p. 197
41. Lloyd, 'Provision for Music', chapter 3
42. v. For Frye and Anne, Duchess of Exeter, see A. Wathey, 'Walter Frye and the Brussels Choirbook', forthcoming
43. See, for example, CLRO, Hustings Rolls 172, 175; A. Wathey, 'Dunstable in France', Musis & Letters, 67 (1986), pp. 1-36, at p. 27
44. Brooke, 'The Central Middle Ages', p. 34
45. The Panorama of London circa 1544 by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, ed. H. M. Colvin and S. Foister (London Topographical Society, 141; London, 1996)
46. see also B. Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish, c.1400-1560 (Aldershot, 1996), chapter 2
47. For a more detailed discussion of these points based on two of London's parishes in Billingsgate ward, see C. Burgess, 'Shaping the Parish: St Mary at Hill, London, in the Fifteenth Century', in Blair and Golding (eds), The Cloister and the World, pp. 246-86
48. The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, ed. Burgess, pp. xxi-xxx
49. For a summary, see also Burgess, 'Shaping the Parish', p. 280
50. see also E. G. C. F. Atchley, 'The Halleway Chauntry at the Parish Church of All Saints, Bristol, and the Halleway Family', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 24 (1901), pp. 74-135
51. 'The Repertory', p. 147
52. For a general guide, see H. Horwitz, A Guide to Chancery Equity Records and Proceedings (2nd edn, Public Record Office Handbooks, 27; London, 1998)
53. Carter, 'The Sound of Silence'
54. See also the comments in J. Milsom, 'Songs and Society in Early Tudor London', Early Music History, 16 (1997), pp. 235-93, at pp. 237-9
55. For a list, see B. Trowell, 'Faburden - New Sources, New Evidence: A Preliminary Survey', in E. Olleson (ed.), Modern Musical Scholarship (London, 1980), pp. 28-78
56. See, for example, F. Kisby, 'Books in London Parish Churches, 1400-1603', Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 11; Stamford, 2001), forthcoming
57. S. H. Johnstone, 'A Study of the Career and Literary Publications of Richard Pynson' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1977), pp. 12-18
58. See, for example, M. Bent, 'New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21 (1968), pp. 137-56, at p. 142
59. see also his earlier comments, reported in the discussion of Baillie, 'A London Gild', pp. 26-7); most list no more than a single set of part-books
60. See N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1969-92), ii, pp. 773-1
61. Williamson, 'The Eton Choirbook', pp. 432-8