Author: Edward John HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Temple Church
Author: Edward John HopkinsThe Temple Church
Author: HopkinsThe Temple Church in London
Author: Robin Griffith-JonesPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843834987
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any English building of its period. It holds one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. The luminous thirteenth-century choir, intended for the burial of Henry III, is of exceptional beauty. Major developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or critical attention, a gap which is remedied by this volume. It considers the New Temple as a whole in the middle ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William Whyte, Christopher Wilson.
The Antiquary
Author: The Antiquary
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church (1839-1872)
Author: Bernarr RainbowPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851158181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Survey of an important period in the development of the choral tradition in the Anglican church. When Bernarr Rainbow was director of music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, he came across the 1849 diary of service music of Thomas Helmore. Astonished at its breadth of repertoire, he was inspired to investigate the circumstances of the document. His findings are recorded in this book, which sets Thomas Helmore's contribution in perspective against the background of the Choral Revival as a whole. In tracing the history of the remarkable revival of care for the music of the liturgy, the author produced a socio-musical history of a period vital in the evolution of the Anglican Church, and made clear, probably for the first time, how music in the Anglican Churchcame to follow lines which are unique in Christendom. His book was originally published at a time of important changes in ecclesiastical thinking; his presentation of the decisions taken in the past which led to the existing relationship between choirs and congregations, interesting in itself, is also valuable in the continuing debate.
The Music of the Church Hymnary and the Psalter in Metre, Its Sources and Composers
Author: William CowanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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