Choral Institutions within the English Church:- Their constitution and development 1340–1500

Bowers, Roger

PhD, University of East Anglia, 1975

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Abstract

[Taken from Introductory notes:] This thesis deals with the history of English liturgical choirs between the years 1340 and 1500. It seeks to enlighten the history of pre-Reformation English church music by relating to it the history of the personnel to whom its performance was entrusted.