Emma Hornby & David Maw 
Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell 
Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography

Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry.


The major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor of music at Oxford University and a composer in his own right. There is a strong focus on early music, with contributions considering the medieval carol, sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord music, and the transmission of fifteenth-century English music to the Continent; but they range right up to the twentieth century, with an examination of music in Oxford. All are concerned in one way or another with themes which recur in Professor Caldwell’s scholarship: sources; style; performance; and historiography.


Contributors: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE, REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER, SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW.


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Table of Content

Introduction – Emma Hornby

Traces of Lost Late Medieval Offices? The
Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae of John of Tynemouth [fl.1350] – Sally Harper

The saints venerated in medieval Peterborough as reflected in the antiphoner Cambridge, Magdalene College, F.4.10 – David Hiley

Interactions between Brittany and Christ Church, Canterbury in the tenth century: the Linenthal leaf – Emma Hornby

A new source of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English harpsichord music by Barrett, Blow, Clarke, Croft, Purcell and others – H. Diack Johnstone

The earliest fifteenth-century transmission of English music to the continent – Margaret Bent

‘Phantasy mania’: Quest for a National Style –

Purcell’s 1694 Te Deum and Jubilate: its Successors, and its Performance History –

Imitative counterpoint in mid-fifteenth-century English Mass settings – Reinhard Strohm

Double cantus firmus compositions in the Eton Choirbook – Magnus Williamson

Englishness in a Kyrie [Mis]attributed to Du Fay – Peter Wright

Continuity, discontinuity, fragments and connections: the organ in church c.1500-1640 – John Harper

‘As the Sand on the Sea Shore’: Women Violinists in London’s Concert Life around 1900 – Simon Mc Veigh

The carol in Anglo-Saxon Canterbury –

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and music in an English Catholic house in 1605 – Owen Rees

Music in Oxford, 1945-1960: The years of change – Susan Wollenberg

Three Anglican Church Historians on Liturgy and Psalmody in the Ancient Synagogue and the Early Church – John Arthur Smith

Histories of British Music and the Land Without Music: National Identity and the Idea of the Hero –

Epilogue: John Caldwell [1938- ]: Scholar, Composer, Teacher, Musician –

About the author

SUSAN WOLLENBERG is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.