Table of Contents

1. Music and the English Reformation; 2. The Elizabethan Settlement; 3. The Chapel Royal; 4. Some Performance Problems; 5. Trends and Influences; 6. '… the order of Common Prayer as it is to be sung in Churches'; 7. Edwardian and Early Elizabethan Church Music; 8. The Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: William Byrd and his Contemporaries; 9. Thomas Tomkins and his Contemporaries; 10. William Child, his Contemporaries and the Stile Ntiovo in England; 11. Published '… for the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke'.