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Title An annotated anthology of hymns / edited with commentary by J.R. Watson ; with a foreword by Timothy Dudley-Smith
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 452 pages)
Contents Introduction; 1. Ancient and Medieval Hymns; 2. The Reformation: England and Germany; 3. The Seventeenth Century: Anglicans and Puritans; 4. Isaac Watts; 5. The Early Eighteenth Century; 6. Charles Wesley; 7. The Later Eighteenth Century; 8. The Romantic Movement and the Early Nineteenth Century; 9. The High Victorian Period; 10. Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Hymns; 11. The Early Twentieth-Century; 12. The Mid-Twentieth Century, and the Hymn Explosion; Copyright Acknowledgements; Author Index; Index of Composers and Arrangers; Index of Hymns; Index of Tunes
Summary This is a selection of 250 of the best-known hymns in the English language, including texts translated from Greek, Latin, German, and other languages, and spanning the two millennia of the Christian church
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hymns, English -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
Hymns, English
Hymnen.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Watson, J. R. (John Richard), 1934-
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0198269730
9780198269731
9780191520648
0191520640