The Lock Hospital Chapel and its Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11498684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Temperley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-72 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrma/118.1.44 |
| OpenAlex | W2006085689 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
It has been generally recognized that the music of the Lock Hospital chapel was an important new influence in English and American church music during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The chapel attracted fashionable congregations and thereby disseminated an elegant, theatrical type of hymnody that was far removed from the norms of church music, whether in cathedral, town church, village parish or dissenting meeting-house. Many hymn tunes first used at the Lock Hospital became enormously popular; some still remain in common use; and their style became the model for a ‘school’ of hymn tunes that remained in vogue for several decades
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chapel · Dissenting opinion · Hymn · Literature · Lock (firearm) · Political science · Style (visual arts) · Visual arts · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |