ABSTRACT
Salisbury Cathedral's living cycle of music and worship provided an aural and conceptual framework for the Experience of Worship enactments that were held there in 2011. The little parish church of St Teilo was the obverse: presented with an institutionally clear space, the research team could engage more freely in the task of reconstruction. The parish of Blackburn illustrates how an economically disadvantaged parish might punch its weight through the operation of feudal patronage. This model was followed in the research team's second typology for St Teilo's Church, whose putative Henrician lord of the manor sponsored the parish's Jesus Service, thus modestly emulating the Earl of Derby's patronage in distant Lancashire. One consequence of the cultural traffic was the increasing normalisation of organ music within English parish worship by 1500. Indeed, during the doctrinal perturbations of the mid-sixteenth century, organ music itself came to symbolise orthodox Catholicism.
