Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

272 Pages·2008·2.58 MB·English

by  Hyun-Ah Kim

Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in
Early Modern England
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Humanism and the Reform of
Sacred Music in Early Modern
England
John Merbecke the Orator and
The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550)
HYUN-AH KIM
University of Toronto, Canada
© Hyun-Ah Kim 2008
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Kim, Hyun-Ah
Humanism and the reform of sacred music in early modern England: John Merbecke
the orator and The booke of common praier noted (1550) – (St Andrews studies in
Reformation history)
1. Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585. Booke of common praier noted 2. Merbecke, John,
ca. 1510-ca. 1585 3. Church music – Church of England – 16th century 4. Humanism
– England – History – 16th century 5. Reformation – England
I. Title
781.7’13’0092
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kim, Hyun-Ah.
Humanism and the reform of sacred music in early modern England : John Merbecke the
orator and the Booke of common praier noted (1550) / Hyun-Ah Kim.
p. cm. – (St Andrews studies in Reformation history)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6268-6 (alk. paper)
1. Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585. Booke of common praier noted. 2. Church
music–Church of England–16th century. 3. Humanism–England–History–16th century. 4.
Reformation–England. 5. Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585. I. Title.
ML410.M528K56 2008
782.3’22342–dc22
2007044798
ISBN 978-0-7546-6268-6
Bach musicological font developed by (c) Yo Tomita.
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Music Examples xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Foreword xvii
Introduction 1
1 A Humanist John Merbecke 21
2 Erasmian Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music 65
3 Anglican Plainchant in the Making 97
4 Rhetoric and the Reform of Plainchant in The Booke of
Common Praier Noted (1550) 139
Conclusion 199
Appendix 203
Bibliography 207
Index 239
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List of Figures
All music examples and figures from The Booke of Common Praier Noted
(BCPN) used in this book are reproduced from Leaver’s facsimile edition
(1980), which is stated in Chapter 3, n. 159.
1.1 Merbecke’s handwriting 58
3.1 Suffrages (Cranmer’s First Litany) 123
3.2 Title page (BCPN) 131
3.3 The Lord’s Prayer, Matins (BCPN) 134
3.4 Benedicite (BCPN) 135
3.5 Glarean’s Horatian ode (Dodecachordon) 135
4.1 The preface (BCPN) 161
4.2 Kyrie, At the Communion (BCPN) 162
4.3 The Lord’s Prayer, At the Communion (BCPN) 167
4.4 Diorum Ambrosij ac Augustini ode (Dodecachordon) 169
4.5 Te Deum laudamus, Matins (BCPN) 169
4.6 Sanctus, At the Communion 171
4.7 Sanctus, At the Communion when there is a burial (BCPN) 171
4.8 Zarqá Table (De accentibus et orthographia
linguae Hebraicae) 175
4.9 The sixth chant of ‘The Offertories’ (BCPN) 183
4.10 Creed, At the Communion (BCPN) 192
4.11 The change of mode in the third response, At the
Burial of the Dead 195
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List of Tables
3.1 Contents of The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550) 132
4.1 Guidetti’s proportional note forms in Directorium
chori (1582) 153
4.2 The Ethos of Modes 186
4.3 Modes in The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550) 188