BIBLIOGRAPHY

OUR HERITAGE OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC
(the majority of these books, apart from periodicals, held by GJL personally- **= to purchase)

Barrett, CK ed. “ The New Testament Background: Selected Documents ” SPCK, London 1956

Bede, Venerable, “ The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation ” JM Dent, (by EP Dutton & Co.) London 1916

Benedictines of Solemnes ed, “ The Liber Usualis ”, Desclee Co, Tournai 1961

Benham, Hugh, “ Latin Church Music 1460-1575 ” Barrie and Jenkins 1977 London .

Blume, Friedrich, “ Protestant Church Music- a History ” Victor Gollancz, London 1975 English translation copyright WW Norton

Bukofzer, Manfred, “ Music in the Baroque Era ” Norton

Coate, Henry “ Palestrina ” (Master Musicians series) Dent London 1948

de Vaux, Roland OP, “ Ancient Israel – its Life and Institutions ” trans. John McHugh, Darton, Longman & Todd London 1974

Davies, J G ed, “ A Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship ” SCM Press 1972

Dudley-Smith, Timothy, “ An Annotated Anthology of Hymns ” **

Dix, Dom Gregory, “ The Shape of the Liturgy ” A & C Black, London 1975

Einstein, Albert, “ Mozart – His character, His Work ” trans. Mendel. Cassell, London 1961.

Faulkner, Quentin, “ Wiser than despair – the Evolution of ideas in the relationship of Music in the Christian Church” **

Fellerer, Karl Gustav, “ The History of Catholic Church Music ” trans. F A Brunner, Greenwood Press Connecticut USA 1979

Foley, Edward, Foundations of Christian Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study #23-24 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1992).  (at Theology House, Christchurch )

Gallagher, Sean  "Western Plainchant in the 1st Millenium" 2003  **

Geiringer, Karl “ Johann Sebastian Bach – the culmination of an era “ George Allen & Unwin London 1966

Hutchings, Arthur, “ Church Music in the Nineteenth Century ” Greenwood Press, Connecticut 1977

The New Oxford History of Music Vol II,ed 1989 Vol I ed 1985 * (Ak City Lib)

Lang, Paul Henry, “ Music in Western Civilisation ” JM Dent, London , 1942

Le Huray, Peter “ Music and the Reformation in England . 1549-1660 ” Cambridge Studies in Music, Cambridge UP 1978.

Marrocco, W Thomas, and Sandon, Nicholas, Medieval Music . Oxford Anthology of Music. OUP London , 1977

Mellers, Wilfrid, “ Harmonious meeting – a study of the Relationship between English Music, Poetry and theatre 1600-1900 .” Dennis Dobson London 1965.

Miller, Robert J, ed, “ The Complete Gospels ” Harper Collins, San Francisco 1994 Polebridge copyright.

Rayner, Henry,” A Social History of Music ” from Middle Ages to Beethoven. Barrie & Jenkins, London 1972.

Reike, Bo, “The New Testament Era ” trans. David E Green. Adam & Charles Black, London 1974

Reese, Gustave, “Music in the Middle Ages” Norton , New York 1941 ?, “ Music in the Renaissance” Norton, 1959

Routley, Erik, “ The Musical Wesleys ” Greenwood Press , USA 1976 (permission OUP, Barrie & Jenkins) ISBN 0- 8371 8644 7

Rubenstein, Richard E, “When Jesus became God – the struggle to define Christianity in the last days of Rome ”, Harcourt 1999. USA

Schweitzer, Albert “J. S. Bach” trans E Newman. Vols I – II, A & C Black London 1962

Simmons, E Revd , “ The Fathers and Doctors of the Church ” Bruce Publ. Milwaukee, 1959

Stapert, Calvin R, “A New Song for an Old World : Musical thought in the Early Church” William B Eerdmans Publ Co. 2007 ISBN 978 0 8020 3219 1 232pp **

Steinitz, Paul, “ Bach's Passions ” Masterworks of Choral Music. Paul Elk Ltd, London 1979

Strunk, Oliver, “ Source Readings in Music History ” Norton , New York , 1950 – also Essays on Music in the Byzantine World

Werner, Eric “ The Sacred Bridge ” - Dobson, 1959 (also 1963 Columbia Univ) –( ref Amazon.com / Abe.com or Nat Libr interloan) VITAL READING....

Westrup, J A,” Purcell ” (The Master Musicians series) J M Dent, London 1975

Wilson-Dickson, Andrew, “ A Brief History of Christian Music ” 2 nd ed 1997 Lion Publishing , UK . 1997. ISBN 0 7459 3773 X (Recommended text) **Or - "A Short History of Christian Music " - still in print.

Williams, Peter F, “ The Organ Music of JS Bach ” Vol 2 Cambridge UP 1982

Wise, Michael, Abegg Jr, Martin, Cook, Edward, “ Dead Sea Scrolls – a new translation” (with commentary) Hodder & Stoughton 1996 Australia

Whistam, William, ed, “ Josephus Complete Works ” Pickering & Inglis, London 1969

FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY LIBRARIAN… to order interloan

H.D. Johnstone and R. Fiske, The Blackwell history of music in Britain : the eighteenth century (Blackwell, 1990).  [This has a chapter on church music].

Ian Spink, Restoration cathedral music 1660-1714 (Oxford University Press, 1995).  [Has chapters on each cathedral as well as good general surveys of the subject]

Ruth M. Wilson, Anglican chant and chanting in England , Scotland , and America 1660-1820 (Clarendon Press, 1996).

Handel and the English Chapel Royal. By Donald Burrows. pp. xxiv + 651.
  Oxford Studies in British Church Music. (Oxford University Press, Oxford
 and New York , 2005, {pound}85. ISBN 0-19-816228-6.) **

PERIODICALS

Per Prof Pamela King ( Bristol Univ) One is a very neat booklet
> produced in Elx for anglophone visitors, "La Festa D'Elx" English version
> (Elche: Patronato de La Festa D'Elx, 1992). This  is I think hard to come
> by except directly.  The other is in the journal

Medieval English Theatre
> Vol 14 (1992), pp4-21.

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Thematic Return in Late Bach Fugues
Joseph Kerman
Music and Letters 2006 87:515-522.
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 Handel and the English Chapel Royal. By Donald Burrows. pp. xxiv + 651.
  Oxford Studies in British Church Music. (Oxford University Press, Oxford
 and New York , 2005, {pound}85. ISBN 0-19-816228-6.)
Andrew V. Jones
Music and Letters 2006 87:614-619.
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William Byrd's Modal Practice. By John Harley. pp. xii + 162. (Ashgate,
  Aldershot and Burlington , Vt. , 2005. {pound}45. ISBN 0-7546-3441-8.)
Hugh Benham
Music and Letters 2006 87:623-625.
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 Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248). By Ignace Bossuyt.
 Trans. by Stratton Bull. pp. 185. (Leuven University Press, Leuven , 2004,
 {euro}40. ISBN 90-5867-421-5.)
John Butt
Music and Letters 2006 87:654-656.
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 Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber: Their Lives and their Music. By Daniel
 Felsenfeld. pp. xii + 180; CD. Parallel Lives, 2. (Amadeus Press, Pompton
 Plains , NJ and Cambridge , 2005, $19.95. ISBN 1-57467-108-1.)
Lloyd Whitesell
Music and Letters 2006 87:687-688.
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 The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and
 Modification. Ed. by Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jeremy
 Llewellyn, and Eyolf Ostrem. pp. xii + 219. (Brepols,Turnhout, 2004,
 {euro}60. ISBN 2-503-51513-4.)
Helen Deeming
Music and Letters 2006 87:82-85.
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 With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It was Made. By
 Leo Treitler. pp. xxx + 506; CD. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New
 York , 2003, {pound}95. ISBN 0-19-816644-3.)
Sarah Fuller
Music and Letters 2006 87:85-88.
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 Guillaume de Machaut and Reims : Context and Meaning in his Musical Works.
 By Anne Walters Robertson. pp. xx + 456. (Cambridge University Press,
  Cambridge , 2002, {pound}65. ISBN 0-521-41876-3.)
Sarah Fuller
Music and Letters 2006 87:88-90.
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 John Taverner: His Life and Music. By Hugh Benham. pp. xvii + 332.
 (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington , Vt. , 2003, {pound}52.50. ISBN
 0-7546-0142-0.)
Jeremy L. Smith
Music and Letters 2006 87:93-96.
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 Syntagma Musicum III: Michael Praetorius. Ed. & trans. by Jeffery
 Kite-Powell. pp. xxix + 265. Oxford Early Music Series. (Oxford University
 Press, New York and Oxford , 2004, {pound}46.99. ISBN 0-19-514563-1.)
William E. Hettrick
Music and Letters 2006 87:98-101.
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 The Solo Cantata in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Thematic Catalog. Ed. by
 Paul F. Rice. pp. xxi + 463 (Harmonie Park Press, Warren , Mich. , 2003,
 $65. ISBN 0-8990-114-X.)
H. Diack Johnstone
Music and Letters 2006 87:107-109.
http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/87/1/107?etoc


 Nicholas Ludford, Mass Inclina cor meum deus and Antiphons, ed. David
 Skinner. Early English Church Music, 44. (Stainer & Bell, London , 2003,
 {pound}47.50. ISBN 0-85249-869-1.)
Hugh Benham
Music and Letters 2006 87:171-173.
http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/87/1/171?etoc

 Robert Fayrfax, Masses Tecum principium and O quam glorifica, ed. Roger
 Bray. Early English Church Music, 45. Stainer & Bell, London , 2004,
 {pound}55. ISBN 0-85249-883-7.)
Hugh Benham
Music and Letters 2006 87:173-176.
http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/87/1/173?etoc


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