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Baroque in the Hymn-book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Extract

‘Baroque’ is a word that has never yet been thoroughly acclimatized among us. To most English-speakers, I think, the word still smacks of something pretentious and affected—if not, indeed, of special pleading. At best it denotes a category that we may learn about and agree to trust so long as we are dutiful tourists in Italy or perhaps Poland, which we can thankfully discard when we get back to native soil.

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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1992

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