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Plainchant in the Eighteenth-Century English Catholic Church

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Bennett Zon
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Certainly, by the last quarter of the eighteenth century, plain-chant performance in England had become inelegantly laborious, a fact much bemoaned by would-be chant-lovers.

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British Catholic History , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 1993 , pp. 361 - 380
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973

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72 Ibidem.

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