- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Hambledon Continuum; illustrated edition edition (18 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852855134
- ISBN-13: 978-1852855130
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,011,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. They are treasured as a unique part of our religious and cultural heritage, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Yet their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, in Georgian neglect and Victorian revival, to their CD-celebrated triumphs of today and the introduction of girls, has never before been told. "The English Chorister", with its vivid, sometimes bizarre, sometimes hilarious detail, should interest musicologists, church historians and a wide general readership.
About the Author
Alan Mould is ex-Headmaster of St John's College Choir School, Cambridge.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Facinating research,
By Catterline (Aberdeen Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The English Chorister: A History (Hardcover)
A superbly researched history of the English Chorister. As a former chorister (Alan Mould was our Headmaster!) I found his respect, understanding and deep passion for the subject matter shone throughout the book, even through the rather duller factual early history. As a chorister in the 70's I found his first hand knowledge brought back some great,(and sometimes scary) memories. Thank you Alan for writing with authority and humour.
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Chorister history,
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This review is from: The English Chorister: A History (Hambledon Continuum) (Paperback)
Going back 1400 years this is a comprehensive history of full time choristers. The only history of its kind. Some great stories of the tricks the young choristers got up to and some of the tricks the Directors of Music employed to try and catch the best.
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