Eighteenth Century
Restoration
Twentieth Century
- Instructions on chanting
- Two major forms of worship
- Format development
- Charles II
- Rubrics
- Organs
- Book of Common Prayer
- Choral Service
Chapel Royal Archives
Approx. 1674
"Tunes in Four Parts to the Psalms of David"
- Robert Bridges
- Psalter revision 1958
- The American Psalter 1930
- Ray Francis Brown
Post-Restoration Chant
- Elements
- A Short Direction for the Performance of Cathedrall Service (1661) - Edward Lowe
- Performance practice
- Post-Restoration chant composers
Reformation
Booke of Common Praier Noted
- John Merbecke 1550
- First example of adapting Latin chant to English
- Used mostly the 8th tone
- Proved that English choirs were well versed in chant
- Liturgically irrelevant by the 1552 revision of the Book of Common Prayer
- Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550)
- Early English Chant
- Earliest examples of Harmonized Chant
- Thomas Morley’s A Plaine and Easie Introduction (1597)
- Manuscript 34 from the first ‘Caroline’ set of partbooks at Peterhouse (c1635)
Nineteenth Century
- Rule of 3+5
- Pointing developments
- Robert James
- Chants become ornate
- Rimbault
What is Anglican Chant?
Beginnings
Anglican Chant: A History
- Term was new in the 19th century
- Ten chords
- Two phrases (3+4)
- Pointing
- reciting tone-mediant-reciting tone-termination (ending)
- Latin psalm tones
- Gregorian and Sarum chants
- 8 tones
- makeup of psalm tones
- Falsobordone
- fauxbordon
- 1480
But that took 300 YEARS to define!