Preface
1.THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Desiderius Erasmus--A Brief Comment about Church Music Preface
1.THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Desiderius Erasmus - A Brief Comment about Church Music
Martin Luther - Preface to Georg Rhau's Symphoniae iucundae
Thomas Cranmer - Letter to King Henry VIII
Royal Injunction to Lincoln Minster
Rules for Sacred Music by the Council of Trent
Thomas Morley - Extract from A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
2.THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
"Orders for the Attendance of the Gentlemen of his Majestes Chappell" from The Old Cheque-Book of the Chapel Royal
The Coronation Service of Charles I, from The Old Cheque-Book
Thomas Ravenscroft - Preface to Psalter (1633 edition)
Preface to the Bay Psalm Book
Edward Lowe - A Short Direction for the Performance of Cathedrall Service (Extract)
Orders to the Chapel Royal, from The Old Cheque-Book
Decree on Sacred Music by the Sacra Visita Apostolica (1665)
Thomas Mace - Extracts from Mustek's Monument
3.THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Thomas Walter - Introduction to The Grounds and Rules of Mustek Explained
Roger North - "Ecclesiasticall Musick," from The Musicall Grammarian
Johann Sebastian Bach - "Short but most necessary draft for a well-appointed Church music"
Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XIV
John Alcock - Dedication from A Morning and Evening Service
James Lyon - Dedication to Urania
William Hayes - "Rules necessary to be observed by all Cathedral-Singers in this Kingdom"
Leopold Mozart - Letter, November 1-3, 1777
Wolfgang Mozart - Letter, November 4, 1777
Charles Burney - Venice; The Sistine Chapel; Vienna
John Mellen - "The Service of God," from Religion Productive of Music
Samuel Arnold - Preface to Cathedral Music
Richard Eastcott - "Of the use and abuse of Church Music"
William Billings - "A Commentary... by way of Dialogue" from The Continental Harmony
4.THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Ludwig van Beethoven - Some letters about the Missa Solemnis
Vincent Novello - Extracts from the Travel Diaries
Felix Mendelssohn - A letter about sacred music
Thomas Hastings - Some remarks to the American Musical Convention, 1845
Raymond Seely - Some remarks to the American Musical Convention, 1845
Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Extract from A Feu' Words on Cathedral Music
Lowell Mason - Letter from Berlin, 1852, about the Cathedral Choir
The General Directions of November 18, 1856, concerning appropriate Church Music
F. A. G. Ouseley - A brief defense of English church music
R. B. Daniel - Women and boys in church choirs
Charles Villiers Stanford - "Music in Cathedral and Church Choirs"
5.THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X on Sacred Music
O. G. T. Sonneck - Extract from "A Survey of Music in America"
Archibald T. Davison - "Individualism"
H. C. Colles - "Church Music," 22 July 1922
James F. White - Excerpt from "Church Choir: Friend or Foe?"
Howard D. McKinney - "Winds of Change"
Frank Cunkle - "Invitation to Arson"
Dave Brubeck - The Light in the Wilderness, program notes
Ralph Thibodeau - "Threnody for Sacred Music, 1968 or, The People of God Have Been Had"
Stephen Koch - "God on Stage"
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