'Church track and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new flooring within the spiritual background of Elizabethan England, via a heavily centred learn of the connection among the perform of non secular track and the advanced technique of Protestant id formation. listening to used to be of important significance within the early sleek interval, and song used to be the most widespread, strong and emotive components of non secular worship. yet largely, conventional historic narratives of the English Reformation were surprisingly tone deaf. fresh scholarship has began to take expanding observe of a few parts of Reformed musical perform, corresponding to the congregational making a song of psalms in meter. This ebook marks an important develop in that region, combining an knowing of thought as expressed in modern non secular and musical discourse, with a close research of the perform of church song in key websites of non secular worship. Divided into 3 sections - 'Discourses', 'Sites', and 'Identities' - the publication starts with an exploration of the classical and non secular discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of track, and its use in spiritual worship. It then strikes directly to an research of the particular perform of church tune in parish and cathedral church buildings, prior to transferring its consciousness to the folks of Elizabethan England, and the ways that tune either served and formed the tough strategy of Protestantisation. via an exploration of those concerns, and through reintegrating track again into the Elizabethan church, we achieve an increased and enriched realizing of the complicated evolution of spiritual identities, and of what it really intended to be Protestant in post-Reformation England.