Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes : English and Dutch metrical psalms from Coverdale to Utenhove, 1535-1566 / Robin A. Leaver.
Author/creator |
Leaver, Robin A. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
Description | xvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Series | Oxford studies in British church music Oxford studies in British church music. ^A285335 |
Contents | The Reformation, liturgical change, and hymnody -- Early beginnings of hymnody in English -- Early beginnings of hymnody in Dutch -- Liturgical necessity in the English church -- Liturgical necessity in the Dutch stranger church -- Strangers and exiles abroad -- Return to England -- Conclusion -- Appendices. A reconstruction of the contents of the Wittenberg congregational Gesangbuch (1529) ; Coverdale's preface to Goostly psalmes (London, c.1535) ; Selections from Coverdale's Goostly psalmes (London, c.1535) ; Sternhold's preface to Certayne psalmes (London, c.1547) ; Extract from Crowley's preface to The Psalter of David (London, 1549) ; English four-part psalm tunes ; Preface to The forme of prayers (Geneva, 1556) ; Preface to the fourth edition of the Anglo-Genevan psalter (Geneva, 1560) ; Analysis of the origins of The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1562) ; Utenhove's will, 19 July 1563. |
Abstract | This book is a study of the common origins and parallel development of English and Dutch metrical psalmody, from Coverdale's Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes (c.1535) to Utenhove's De Psalmen Dauidis, in Nederlandischer sangs-syme (1566). The principal concern is with hymnological and liturgical matters, though the author also considers questions of theology and church government. In so doing he presents both a compendium of information about the early history of the metrical psalm texts and tunes, and also a clear picture of the Reformation in its musical and hymnological aspects. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337) and indexes. |
LCCN | 91008684 |
ISBN | 0198161689 : |
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