ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the individual, and the processes of transmission and reception of religious doctrine, practice and sentiment which occurred through individuals' interactions with music. It explores the musical media which contributed towards the process of religious education, taken in the broadest possible sense. The chapter provides a brief summary of the intellectual weight which music possessed as an educational medium and deals with pedagogy and didacticism, including formal schooling. It treats propagandist and defamatory music; and then the devotional works which contributed to the more informal process of Protestantisation. But no single religious work, or even genre, was capable of exemplifying the whole gamut of Elizabethan religious doctrine, experience and identity. Neither, it should be stressed, were most Elizabethan Protestants. But in a complex and imperfect way, religious music undoubtedly played an important part in the process of Protestantisation, conceived both as explicit pedagogy and propaganda, and as a process of internalised religious identity formation.
