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`Explicit yet concise, the present book's title corresponds exactly to the scope of its contents ... Here, then, is a book of outstanding interest, which encompasses the entire repertory of church music in the United Kingdom immediately after the Stuart Restoration. The quantity of music which has been preserved will certainly surprise musicologists and music-lovers in France ... One has nothing but praise for the author's erudition ... and for the clarity of his account ... the book cannot be too highly commended for the quality and quantity of information which it presents, and for the extremely convenient way in which it presents it, thanks in part to the excellent index and to its numerous music examples, which are both clearly printed and accurate.' Jean Lionnet, Journal of the Royal Musical Association `Spink has attempted a highly detailed, thorough-going study; he has tried, it would seem, to leave no stone unturned, and the result is a remarkable achievement. The book is organized in a way that will allow it to be read as a survey of the topic and consulted as a reference tool ... this is a magnificent book, which will provide a most secure foundation for all future investigations. I know that it will not collect much dust on my bookshelf.' Robert Shay `It is hardly too fanciful to liken opening this book to lifting the lid of an unsuspected treasure chest...an immensely readable, uniquely definitive text that any musical scholar working in this field would surely have pledged his birthright to have written.' Choir and Organ `Spink provides a lucid and detailed account of the intimate connection which existed between cathedral music, with its choirs and organs, and the state religion which under-pinned the divine right of the monarch...Wherever one lives in the country there will be something of interest, as Spink has provided a vignette of each cathedral and its music.' Early Music Today.

Spink's very rich book is the first to put masses of information drawn from sources modern and ancient, familiar and nearly unknown, into anything approaching a useful synthetic form....Scholars are in considerable debt to Spink; all serious musical libraries must buy this book. --Choice<br> Through his advocacy and interpretation, Spink has provided an extraordinary survey of the musical sources and the archives of the important foundations of the Restoration period. --Choral Journal<br>

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