The English Chapel Royal Before 1300
Ian Bent
Until quite recently music historians thought that the Chapel Royal was founded in fifteenth century. In 1895, Henry Davey wrote: ‘We may … date rise of English about 1400–20, and suppose a first set up by IV or V’. Since then, much pioneering archive work has been done Mr. John Harvey, Dr. Frank Harrison Brian Trowell. It Grattan Flood who, 1924, revealed to musical scholars what medieval historian had long known: England dates back at least further three centuries. Taking his cue from Flood, Stanley Roper delivered paper this Association years later, which he called ‘Music Chapels c. 1135–Present Day’.
Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association