The English Plainchant Revival [Hardcover]

The revival of plainchant in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England was a turning point in the history of Anglican and Catholic musical worship. It led in its time to not only the preservation of much-loved melodies, but also to heated controversy. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, plainchant had returned as a central part of traditional liturgy. This book provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.

Acknowledgements
Conventions of Terminology, Reference, and Presentation
Abbreviations
Location of Manuscripts and Printed Books
Introduction: The English Catholic Plainchant Revival
Part I: The Plainchant Revival in the Eighteenth-Century Roman Catholic Church in England
Introduction
1. A General Introduction to Post-Tridentine Liturgical Books and Plainchant in Europe
2. Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Roman Catholic History in England
3. Plainchant in the English Catholic Church, 1748-1799
4. The Works of John Francis Wade
5. Manuscripts by Scribes Other than Wade
Part II: The Revival of Plainchant in the Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholic Chuch in England
Introduction
6. English Catholic Plainchant, the beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the 1850s
7. Roman Catholic Plainchant Apologetics, the 1840s to 1850s
Part III: The Revival of Plainchant in the Nineteenth-Century Anglican Church
Background to the Revival
8. Nineteenth-Century Anglican Plainchant Sources
9. Anglican Plainchant Apologetics: the 1820s to 1860s
Epilogue: Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Revival in England
Appendix
Bibliography