British royal and state funerals : music and ceremonial since Elizabeth I / Matthias Range.

Author/creator Range, Matthias, 1977- author.
Format Electronic
PublicationWoodbridge : Boydell Press, [2016]
Copyright Date©2016
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects

Contents Frontcover; Contents; Illustrations; Music Examples; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; General Notes; Introduction: British Royal and State Funerals and their Music; 1 Heraldic Heyday: From Elizabeth I to the Duke of Rothes (1603-1681); 2 'Postscript to an era'?: Charles II and Mary II (1685 and 1694/5); 3 Private Royals and Public Heroes: From William III to the Duke of Marlborough (1702-1722); 4 The 'Concert Funerals': From Queen Caroline to George II (1737-1760); 5 Public Heroes and Private Royals: From Pitt the Elder and Lord Nelson to Queen Adelaide (1778/1806-1849).
Contents 6 Apogee and Royal Retreat: From the Duke of Wellington to Prince Albert Victor and William Gladstone (1852-1892/8)7 Imperial Farewells: From Queen Victoria to Winston Churchill and the Duke of Windsor (1901-1965/72); 8 The Royal Return to the Public: From Lord Mountbatten to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1979-2002); Appendices; Appendix A: The Musical Portions of the Liturgy of the Burial Service as in the Different Versions of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1662; Appendix B: Texts and Transcriptions; Appendix C: Synoptic Table of Music at Selected British Royal and State Funerals.
Abstract The first in-depth study of the ceremonial and music performed at British royal and state funerals over the past 400 years.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 3, 2016).
Issued in other formPrint version: Range, Matthias. British Royal and State Funerals : Music and Ceremonial since Elizabeth I. : Boydell & Brewer, ©2016 9781783270927
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781782046981 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1782046984 (electronic bk.)
Stock number22573/ctt19x2qm6 JSTOR

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