The History of British Music - Part 1
Music in the United Kingdom prior to the seventeenth century, or at any rate the latter part of the sixteenth, presents itself under very much the same aspects as on the Continent. On the one hand Church music, on the other Minstrelsy and latterly, the rise of a secular art, secular in spirit but hampered with ecclesiastical traditions.
English Church music of the pre-Reformation period necessarily moved on the same lines as that of the Continent, although probably existing in a far less advanced stage of cultivation. Minstrelsy, however, was greatly esteemed among English. Scotch, Irish, and Welsh; and among the Irish and Welsh the bardic caste enjoyed a degree of power and influence probably unknown in any other country of the world. Thus in Ireland the three grades of minstrels or bards of the legendary period
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