A Short History of English Music

PREFACE

This book is not, in any sense, technical.

It is an attempt to give a simple and rational, though in a volume of this size, necessarily incomplete, account of events that have led to the complex state of music existing in England at the present time.

Should it offer nothing to the musician or historian, I hope it will be found of interest to the general reader.

The desire to make each chapter as complete, on the subject with which it deals, as space would permit, has necessitated a certain amount of repetition, but I trust that the object will condone the fault.

THE AUTHOR.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Music Before and During the Reformation	1
II.	Music Before and During the Reformation—(continued)	20
III.	Early English Composers	47
IV.	The Decline of English Music	67
V.	Musical Education in England	93
VI.	Progress of Orchestral Music	125
VII.	Oratorio in England	150
VIII.	Opera in England	176
IX.	Distinguished Musicians in England during the Nineteenth Century	201
X.	General Survey	244

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Henry Purcell	Frontispiece
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Queen Elizabeth	32
Calvin	76
G. F. Handel, by Hudson	154
Sir Arthur Sullivan	228
Sir Edward Elgar	246

SHORT HISTORY OF MUSIC IN ENGLAND

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SHORT HISTORY OF MUSIC IN ENGLAND