A Short History of English Music

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Ford Ernest. A Short History of English Music

CHAPTER I. MUSIC BEFORE AND DURING THE REFORMATION

CHAPTER II. MUSIC BEFORE AND DURING THE REFORMATION – (continued)

CHAPTER III. EARLY ENGLISH COMPOSERS

CHAPTER IV. THE DECLINE OF ENGLISH MUSIC

CHAPTER V. MUSICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER VI. PROGRESS OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

CHAPTER VII. ORATORIO IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER VIII. OPERA IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER IX. DISTINGUISHED MUSICIANS IN ENGLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER X. GENERAL SURVEY

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England was musical – once upon a time.1

At least, if it be not too great a strain on our credulity, we must believe so.

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The viols, lute, virginals, recorders, and many others, belong to a much later period. The violin, as we know it, only arrived at perfection in the seventeenth century, when Stradivarius, Amati and Guanarius were making their marvellous instruments. But that they had instruments and even used them in combination is shewn by the following lines from Chaucer: —

and again,

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