White, B orcid.org/0000-0002-9011-5578 (2021) Anthems and Politics in the Restoration Chapel Royal. Music and Letters. gcab025. ISSN 0027-4224
Abstract
This article investigates occasional anthems written for the Chapel Royal by Henry Purcell, John Blow, and William Turner in an attempt to understand the political work enacted through their texts and settings. The anthem’s place in the liturgy and its relationship to the sermon is considered, along with the ways in which anthem texts were selected, compiled, and adapted from source texts. Though occasional anthems usually served to interpret current events favourably for the regime, during the crisis caused by James II’s prosecution of the Seven Bishops Blow set texts that can be interpreted as challenging the king’s pro-Catholic policies. The article concludes by considering the extent to which the characteristics of an anthem text can be used to speculate on the occasion for which it was selected when that occasion is unknown, using the example of Purcell’s My song shall be alway.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) (2021). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Music and Letters. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2020 11:21 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ml/gcab025 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161861 |