Excerpt from Tudor Church Music Not only did the music not reach the masses, but in many cases it did not even reach that select band of scholars and aesthetes whose very lives were bound up with the study and practice of Tudor Church Music. Quite recently there have been several instances of the belated dis covery of heavy packages, found to contain com piete sets of the ten volumes, in ecclesiastical store-rooms of one kind or another. Thus the dust which scholars had carefully removed from centuries-old manuscripts was, with completelack of concern, allowed to re-settle itself upon the wrappings of the published volumes. The music remained unsung (apart from the octavo editions already mentioned) and no attempt at stylistic criticism of the music, as an integral and important corpus, was even remotely thought of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.