Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. They are treasured as a unique part of our religious and cultural heritage, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Yet their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, in Georgian neglect and Victorain revival, to their CD-celebrated triumphs of today and the introduction of girls, has never before been told. "The English Chorister", with its vivid, sometimes bizarre, sometimes hilarious detail, will interest musicologists, church historians and a wide general readership.

This book is a fascinating history of an English musical tradition, which spans the ages - from the recruiting and educating of singers in medieval times, right up to the modern choir.

About the Author
Alan Mould is an ex-headmaster of St John's College choir school, Cambridge. His other publications include Choirs and Spaces Where They Cling.

Reviews
"...this timely history, going back to medieval times, helps explain the enduring appeal and mechanics of choirs." Unite Magazine, November 06 Mavis Compion"



Book Information
ISBN 9781847250582
Author Alan Mould
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Hambledon Continuum
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 592g