Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice (Paperback)

Part I. Victorian cathedral music in theory: issues that shaped the composer's creative world: 1. The malaise of neo-puritanism; 2. Morality, singing and church music; 3. Orthodoxy and the composer; 4. Properties and constraints; Part II. Victorian cathedral music in practice: selected composers and their works: 5. Thomas Attwood, forefather of Victorian cathedral music; 6. Thomas Attwood Walmisley and John Goss, the first Victorian generation; 7. Samuel Sebastian Wesley, a frustrated romantic; 8. Sir Frederick Ouseley: the timeless idiom and beyond; 9. John Stainer and Joseph Barnby: the High Victorian idiom; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.