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The story of Christian music : from Gregorian chant to Black gospel : an authoritative illustrated guide to all the major traditions of music for worship
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- Creator
- Andrew Wilson-Dickson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford, England ; Batavia, Ill. : Lion Publishing, 1992
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- 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0745921426, 9780745921426, 0732405890, 9780732405892, 0281046263, 9780281046263
- OCLC
- ocm26158932
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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