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| Formation | November 1888 |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Legal status | Charity[1] |
| Purpose | "exists to promote the performance and study of liturgical chant and medieval polyphony, through the publication of editions, facsimiles and scholarly articles, and through educational and liaison events."[2] |
| Headquarters | England, UK |
Key people | Helen Deeming (chair)[3] Thomas Schmidt (secretary)[3] |
| Website | plainsong |
The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (PMMS), also spelled as the Plainsong and Mediæval Music Society, is an English music society.[4] Founded in 1888, the PMMS primarily researches, promotes and produces publications on medieval music, particularly the liturgical chant from that time to the present. A registered charity since 1987, it has been particularly influential in encouraging the revival of Anglican chant. Musicologists associated with the PMMS include H. B. Briggs, Anselm Hughes, G. H. Palmer, and George Ratcliffe Woodward, and more recently Gustave Reese, D. H. Turner, John Stevens, Christopher Page and Margaret Bent.
The society is best known for its publications, which number over a hundred; most of them are either essays on, or editions of, plainchant. Through Cambridge University Press, it publishes the journal Plainsong and Medieval Music twice a year, previously known as the Journal of the Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Charitywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society". Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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Officerswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hiley 2001, § para. 1.