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The Easter Psalms of Christ's Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1961

Susi Jeans
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I would like to begin my paper with a quotation from Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, because it was his short note about the music of Christ's Hospital, which set me off on my present investigation.

‘In this Hospital anno 3 Jac. a free singing school was founded and endowed by Robert Dow, … wherin, as in the College of Dulwich … the children were to be taught pricksong. These, as far as can be recollected, are the only endowments of the kind since the Reformation. At Dulwich the boys are taught musical notes, and are able to chant; but at Christ's Hospital they sing only psalm tunes, and those by ear.’

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 88 , 1961 , pp. 45 - 60
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1961

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