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Music in early Christian literature
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This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there ar...
This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian liturgical music. This volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available. The passages are arranged chronologically and regionally in eleven chapters with brief commentary. An introduction sets out the major subjects and themes of the original source material.
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- edited by James McKinnon
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987
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- 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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- ISBNs
- 9780511620089, 9780521304979, 9780521376242, 9780521304979
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- The New Testament -- The Christian literature of the first and second centuries. The apostolic fathers ; The Greek apologists ; Literature other than patristic -- The Greek authors of the third century. Clement of Alexandria ; Origen ; The Didascalia apostolorum -- Western authors of the third and early fourth centuries : Carthage and Rome. Tertullian ; Hippolytus ; Novatian ; Cyprian ; Arnobius ; Lactantius -- Fourth-century Alexandria and desert monasticism. Athanasius ; Synesius of Cyrene ; Pachomius ; Evagrius Ponticus ; Palladius ; Isidore of Pelusium ; The Apophthegmata patrum -- Fourth-century Asia minor : the Cappadocians. Basil the Great ; Gregory of Nazianzus ; Gregory of Nyssa -- Palestine, Antioch and Syria. Cyril of Jerusalem ; Diodore of Tarsus ; Epiphanius of Salamis ; John Chrysostom ; Nilus of Ancyra ; Callinicus ; Ephraem Syrus -- The Greek historians. Eusebius of Caesarea ; Socrates ; Sozomen ; Theodoret of Cyrus -- The apostolic constitutions, Egeria, and the eastern councils. The apostolic constitutions ; Egeria ; The councils -- Western authors of the fourth and early fifth centuries. Hilary of Poitiers ; Ambrose ; Niceta of Remesiana ; Jerome ; Cassian -- Augustine and minor western authors. Augustine ; Minor western authors