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The Choirboy and His Place in English Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sydney H. Nicholson
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The modern choirboy is such a familar object, at any rate to those who go to Church, that it is not generally realised that he is in any sense an historical figure, and by some is even regarded as a necessary nuisance or as a person of no serious importance.

Yet in this familar figure we can, perhaps as nowhere else, see the living embodiment of some of those things which are most distinctively national in the music of our country.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 70 , 1943 , pp. 53 - 74
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1943

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1 Note that this was nearly thirty years after the dissolution (in 1544), and seems to show that some sort of a choir was still maintained-Google Scholar

2 Proceedings, vol. XL, p. 117.Google Scholar

3 Act II. Sc. ii.Google Scholar