The English carol.
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| Author / Creator: | Routley, Erik. |
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| Imprint: | London, H. Jenkins [1958] |
| Description: | 272 pages illustrations 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Carols -- History and criticism. Hymns, English -- History and criticism. Carols. Hymns, English. Carol Englisch Geschichte Weihnachtslied Ballades anglaises -- Histoire et critique. Hymnes anglais -- Histoire et critique. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2077417 |
Table of Contents:
- Part one : The singing ages
- The medieval manuscript carols. What is a carol? ; The form of the medieval manuscript carol ; Carols on secular subjects ; A general vew of Greene
- The ballad carol. Carol and folk-song ; The noel ; The ballad ; The words of the ballad-carols ; Carols of the nativity ; Legendary carols ; The cherry tree ; The holy well ; The carnal and the crane ; Dives and Lazarus ; The angel Gabriel ; Lullaby carols ; Down in yon forest ; Carols of redemption and other doctrines ; Wassail ; Holly and ivy ; Number carols ; My dancing day
- The music of the ballad carols. Sources of folk-music ; Gilbert and Sandys ; The later folk-song movement ; Folk-song and geography ; Community of tunes ; God rest you merry ; A virgin most pure ; The first Nowell ; Other ballad tunes ; Furry ; Greensleeves
- Part Two : The great controversy
- The medieval genius for play. The procession ; Drama ; The lord of misrule ; The boy bishop ; The church's year
- The wrath of the puritans. The puritan view ; Status pupillaris ; Puritan enactments ; Carols of the puritan period, 1550-1650 ; Motet carols ; Late ballads ; The poets : William Dunbar, Southwell and contemporaries, Herrick and contemporaries
- Christmas hymns. Hymns and carols ; Hymns and liturgy ; Hymns as the folk-song of evangelism ; Hymns as an eighteenth-century literary form ; Adeste fideles ; "Hark the herald" ; "Christians, awake" ; "While shepherd watched" ; Christmas hymns of the nineteenth century
- Part three : The return of the carol
- The ninteenth century. Music and the industrial revolution ; The Oxford movement ; Bramley & Stainer ; Carols for use in church (Chope) ; Other carols and carol books
- Carols from other countries. Piae Cantiones (1582) ; Germany and Austria ; Poland ; Czechoslovakia ; Holland ; France and the Basque country ; Other European countries ; The British Isles ; America
- Carols today. Modern carols ; Carol singing and carol services ; Where are the carols now?
- Appendix I : The festival of nine lessons and carols
- Appendix II : A service of lessons and music for the season of Lent.