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The Booke of Common Praier Noted
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contribution to Anglican chant
- In Anglican chant
When John Marbeck published The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550), he used the first seven psalm tones for the canticles and tone eight for the psalms. Like Marbeck, various English composers used the psalm tones in their polyphonic (multipart) psalm settings, placing them in the tenor part “measured,”…
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discussed in biography
- In John Marbeck
…plainchant for the Anglican liturgy, Booke of Common Praier Noted (i.e., set to musical notes). This setting was superseded in 1552, but interest in it revived during the Oxford Movement in the late 19th century, and it was printed in facsimile in 1939.
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