Angelic Sounds
Jacobean choral music -
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GERALD FENECH'... distinctive character and colour ...'
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The religious background to sacred music in the Jacobean era was far from straightforward. King James, son of Mary Queen of Scots, who was a staunch Catholic, was groomed to be a champion of the Protestant Church of England. His wife Anne of Denmark was in the process of embracing Catholicism and, to make matters more complicated, two of his offspring, Henry and Elizabeth, tended towards Puritanism...
Copyright © 11 February 2014
Gerald Fenech,
Gzira, Malta
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