Title The story of Christian music : from Gregorian chant to black gospel an authoritative illustrated guide to all the major traditions of music for worship / Andrew Wilson-Dickson

Edition First edition Published Oxford, England ; Batavia, Ill. : Lion Publishing, 1992

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Description 256 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm Series A Lion book Lion book. Contents Part 1. The birth of Christian music: Music in the Old Testament -- Music in the early church -- The beginnings of the Western Middle Ages -- The monastic tradition -- Music of the spheres: the medieval worldview -- Music for the liturgy -- From the ear to the page -- From Gregorian chant to polyphony -- Wycliffe's challenge to the church -- Part 2. Renaissance and Reformation: Luther and the reformation -- The Swiss Reformers; the Calvinist tradition -- The Reformation in England -- The Catholic Reformation -- The power of music -- Part 3. The flowering of Christian music: The development of the oratorio -- The music of the Lutheran Church -- Heinrich Schütz -- J.S. Bach -- Turmoil in England: Commonwealth and Restoration -- The glory of the Chapel Royal -- English congregational music: the birth of the English hymn -- Part 4. The path divides: Music in the courts of Europe -- The Romantic movement -- The decline of the Lutheran hymn -- The Church of England and the tractarians -- Revival in the nineteenth century -- The path divides -- Part 5. Eastern traditions: The Orthodox churches -- The Greek Orthodox Church -- The Russian Orthodox Church -- The Coptic and Ethiopian churches -- Christianity, East and West - worlds apart? -- Part 6. The African genius: Africa and the influence of western music -- The independent churches -- Part 7. Music in North America: Christianity comes to the New World -- Africans in America -- North and South -- Gospel music: white and black -- The United States and the European classical tradition -- The charismatic movement -- Part 8. Music in twentieth-century Europe: Roman Catholic music in Europe this century -- The Bible in the concert hall -- Vatican II and the liturgy -- Lutheran musical revival -- Music in Britain -- The popular stream -- Good music - good worship? -- Conclusion Analysis Religious music Notes Includes bibliographical references Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Church music. LC no. 92022957 ISBN 0732405890 (Aust.) 0745921426 0745951198 (paperback)

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