SRH (Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings)

by David Music

[Studies in Liturgical Musicology, No. 4]

This book represents and attempt to help modern students, leaders, and singers of hymns view the history of congregational song through the perspective of its original writers, leaders, singers, and commentators. As the title suggests, it is a collection of source documents from the various periods of church history. The writings have been selected to illustrate certain aspects of the philosophy and/or practice of hymnody in these eras.

[From the Introduction]

Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., and London

ISBN: 0-8108-3148-1

Subject Heading: Hymnody

Chapter Headings:

I The Early Church and the Middle Ages

1. Psalm and Hymn Singing Practices in Early Christianity

Pliny the Younger
Clement of Alexandria
Tertullian
Ambrose of Milan
Augustine of Hippo
Basil
Egerias
Palladius
Council of Laodicea

2. Early Definitions of “Hymn”

Augustine of Hippo
Cassiodours
Isidore of Seville

3. Hymns and Heresy

Ephraim of Syrus
Sozomen
Ambrose of Milan
Socrates

4. Medieval Religious Song

Notker Balbulus
Francis of Assisi

II. The Reformation

5. The Lutheran Chorale

Martin Luther
Frid. Nausea Blancicampianus
Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen
The Theology Faculty of the University of Wittenberg

6. Swiss Reformed

Huldreich Zwingli
Conrad Grebel

7. Genevan Psalmody

Martin Bucer
Clement Marot
John Calvin
Theodore de Beza

8. English and Scottish Psalmody

Thomas Sternhold
William Whittingham
Thomas Est
The Westminster Assembly
Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady

9. American Psalmody

Francis Gletcher
The Bay Psalm Book
Cotton Mather
Samuel Sewall

III. English Hymnody

10. The Sixteenth Century

Myles Coverdale

11. The Seventeenth Century

George Wither
Benjamin Keach

12. The Eighteenth Century

Isaac Watts
John Wesley
John Newton

13. The Nineteenth Century

Reginald Heber
Jonathan Gray
James Montgomery
Thomas Helmore
John Mason Neale

14. The Twentieth Century

Ralph Vaughan Williams

IV. American Hymnody

15. The Eighteenth Century

Thomas Symmes
Jonathan Edwards
William Billings

16. The Nineteenth Century

Timothy Dwight
The Boston Handel And Haydn Society
William Caldwell
William Francis Allen
Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane
Ira D. Sankey

V. Vatican Council II

17. Vatican Council II

Further Reading
Index

About the Author:

David W. Music is Professor of Church Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX. He was previously Associate Professor of Music and Chairman of the Music Dept. and Fine Arts division at California Baptist College, Riverside, CA. He served for six years as Editor of The Hymn, the quarterly journal of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and coauthored Singing Baptists: Studies in Baptist Hymnody in America (1994).

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