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A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733
By Keri Dexter
Copyright 2002
600 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: Until relatively recently, musicologists' account of church music in post-Restoration and early Georgian England has been substantially incomplete due to an almost exclusive preoccupation with the music and musicians of the Chapel Royal. The balance is now being redressed and this book begins the task of filling one of the remaining gaps in our understanding of the field. The volume represents a detailed examination of the practical workings of a choral foundation during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, placing the musicians within their wider historical and social contexts, and based on a comprehensive survey of extant archival material.
1: Introduction; 2: Continuity of Service(s): the Choir of Eton College, 1640-75; 3: The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor, 1660-1733; 4: St George's Chapel: Links with Eton and the Chapel Royal; 5: The St George's Chapel Partbooks, Copyists and Repertoire; Conclusions
Biography
Keri Dexter