O Sing unto the Lord

This history of English church music is “one of the wittiest and most whimsically irreverent works of scholarship in recent memory” ( The Christian Century ). For as long as people have worshipped together, music has played a key role in church life. Here, Andrew Gant offers a fascinating history of English church music, from the Latin chant of late antiquity to the great proliferation of styles seen in contemporary repertoires. The ornate complexity of pre-Reformation Catholic liturgies reveale