Hymnology - MUR 4420
Class Schedule, Spring 2007
Class will start promptly at 6:00 p.m. and will end at 8:30. There will
be a 10 minute break around 7:15.
Black Text means TOPICS to be covered.
Blue Text means READ something or DO something.
Red Text means graded assignments: Study Questions.
Exams, etc.
Brown
Text means Hymn Tune Quizzes.
Green Text means Hymn Analyses.
See Schedules of Due Dates at the bottom
of this page. Topics for Sessions 3 - 14 will be added as soon as possible.
If you notice any inconsistencies regarding assignment dates, please notify
the professor: landesdan AT aol DOT com
Sessions: 1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
10 11 12
13 14
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Session 1 Thurs., January 11: Welcome
to class
Short discussion: What is your favorite hymn?
Syllabus and course expectations
What is HYMNOLOGY?
What is HYMNODY?
What is a "hymn" and why do Christians sing them?
Singing
and hymn singing in the Bible
General
Statements about the History of Hymnody
10 Books on Hymnody
Assignments:
- Fill out the ONLINE
Student
Information Form
- Read the PREFACE, CHAPTER ONE, and CHAPTER
TWO of Praying
Twice
- Read the PREFACE and DIRECTIONS FOR SINGING
(vii) in The United Methodist
Hymnal
- Peruse the following Internet Sites:
Hymnology:
What is it?
Hymnody:
What is it?
Outlines
of Hymn History
Historical
Periods of Hymnody
10
Books on Hymnody
The
Electronic Encyclopedia of Hymnology
Hymnody
Links on the Internet
Internet
Resources for Hymnology
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Session 2 Thurs., January 18: Hymn Mechanics
Short discussion
The Electronic Encyclopedia of Hymnology (EEOH)
100 Hymn Tunes
A short
walk through hymn history
Hymn Mechanics Part I: Literary aspects of a hymn (the TEXT)
Form
Rhyme
Scheme
Meter
Metrical
Pattern
Poetic
Devices
Literary
Patterns
They Hymn as Poetry
How to do a Hymn Analysis:
Hymn Analysis requirement
Hymn Analysis form
Assignments:
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Session 3 Thurs., January 25: Musical Aspects
of a Hymn; Early Hymnody
Hymn Mechanics Part II: Musical aspects of a hymn (the TUNE)
Melody
Melodic
Range
Interval
Relationships
Pitch/Text
Relationships
Rhythm
Form
Text/Tune
Relationships
Part IV: A
Quick Survey of Hymn Tunes
Hymn
terminology
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Ancient and Medieval Hymnody
Ancient Judiasm
Jewish Instrumental Music
Jewish Vocal Music
Jewish Cantillation
The Synagogue
The Early Christians
Early Christian Worship
Early Christian Hymnody
New Testament Hymns
Greek Hymnody to ca. 900 CE
Early and Medieval Latin Hymnody
Piae Cantiones
Assignments:
Explore these LINKS which have to do with ancient Jewish and Early
Chrisian Hymnody (detailed info):
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Session 4 Thurs., February 1: The Theology
of Hymns; Greek and Latin Hymnody
How
do hymns funciton?
What is
"Theology?"
The Hymnal as a compendium of theology.
The
Ancient Worldview
The
Ancient Jewish Worldview
The Greek
Worldview
The
Medieval Christian Worldview
The basic tennets of Christianity: Creeds
and Statements of Faith
Heresy
Gnosticism
Arianism
Pelagianism
Pantheism
- not to be confused with Panentheism
Hymns of the Early Church
I Timothy 3:16
II Timothy 2:11-13
Rom. 6:17
Luke 1:46-55 (Magnificat)
Luke 1:68-79 (Benedictus
dominus)
Luke 2:29-32 (Nunc
dimittis)
Luke 2:14 (Lesser Gloria)
Gloria (Greater
Gloria)
Te Deum
Greek hymnody
to ca. 900 CE
Medieval
Latin hymnody
Augustine
Hilary
Ambrose
St. Francis
Assignments:
- Read CHAPTER FOUR
& FIVE in Sing
with Understanding: The Hymn and Theology; Early Church and
Pre-Reformation Traditions.
- Check out the Church
History Project.
- Complete
the Study
Questions
for Session 4 by Wednesday, February
7 (one day before the next class session). You will not be able to
submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 2 by
Wednesday, February 7 (one day before the next session). You will
not be able to submit it after that date.
- Complete Hymn Analysis #2 before
the beginning of the next session
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Session 5 Thurs., February 8: Reformation
Hymnody
Transition
from Medieval to Renaissance
Characteristics
of the Renaissance
Political/Historical
Events Leading to the Renaissance
Events
leading to the Protestant Reformation
Reformation Hymnody I: Martin
Luther
Meistersingers
The Chorale
Rhythmic
and Isorythmic Chorale
The
Significance of J.S. Bach
What makes
a hymn a "Lutheran Hymn?"
Reformation Hymnody II: John
Calvin and Metrical Psalmody
Metrical
Psalmody - what is it?
Outline
of Metrical Psalmody
Metrical
Psalmody - A Quick Overview
Metrical
Psalms from the Genevan Psalter
See
Metrical Psalmody - A Timeline
Reformation Hymnody III: English Metrical Psalmody
English
Metrical Psalms
Assignments:
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Session 6 Thurs., February 15: English
Hymnody thru Isaac Watts
Background
to English Hymnody in the 16th century
The Evolution
of English Hymnody
Pre-Watts
English Hymnody
Separatists
and Dissenters
The Established
Church
The
Significance of Isaac Watts
The Watts
School
See Isaac Watts
Assignments:
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Session 7 Thurs., February 22: Moravian
and Methodist Hymnody.
German Pietism
-- what is it?
Pietistic
Hymnody
Moravian Hymnody
John and Charles
Wesley
The beginnings of British Evangelical Hymnody
Evangelical
Hymnody
Agustus
Toplady and Calvinist Methodism
Hymns
Compared
Welsh
Hymnody
Olney Hymns
Assignments:
- Check out the Church
History Project.
-
Complete the Study Questions
for Session 7 by Wednesday, February 28 (one day before the next
class session). You will not be able to submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 5 by Wednesday, February 28 (one day before
the next class session). You will not be able to submit it after that
date.
- Complete Hymn Analysis #3 before
the beginning of the next session.
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Session 8 Thurs., March 1: American
Hymnody to ca. 1870
Early American Hymnody: Metrical
Psalmody
Lining Out
the Psalms
See: Lining
Out
The Singing
School
Early
American Hymnody
William
Billings
American Folk Hymnody
Shaped Note
Hymnody
The Camp
Meeting
Assignments:
-
Complete the Study Questions
for Session 8 by Wednesday, March 14 (one day before the next
class session). You will not be able to submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 6 by Wednesday, March 14 (one day before the
next class session). You will not be able to submit it after that
date.
Spring Break is March 3-11
Individual CONFERENCES to review
the progress on your Notebook compilation will begin
tomorrow: Friday March 2. Please see Dr. Landes individually to arrange
a conference.
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Session 9 Thurs., March 15: American Gospel
Hymnody to 1940
Happy St. Patrick's
Day! St. Patrick's
Breastplate
Sunday
School Hymnody
Lowell
Mason and Thomas
Hastings
Roots
of American Gospel Hymnody
The
Gospel Song
Assignments:
-
Complete the Study Questions
for Session 9 by Wednesday, March 21 (one day before the next
class session). You will not be able to submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 7 by Wednesday, March 21 (one day before the
next class session). You will not be able to submit it after that
date.
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Session 10 Thurs., April 12: Writing Your
Own Hymns; British Liturgical Hymnody
Writing
Your Own Hymns
Greeting
Card Poetry
See Writing
your own hymns
Assignments:
-
Complete the Study
Questions for Session 10 by Tuesday, May 1 (last day of classes
at Belmont Univ.). You will not be able to submit them after that
date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 8 by Wednesday, March 28 (one day before the
next class session). You will not be able to submit it after that
date.
- Complete Hymn Analysis #4 before
the beginning of the next session.
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Session 11 British and American Mainline
Hymnody to ca. 1960 -- we will try to make this session up before the
end of the semester.
Evangelical
and Mainline Hymnody
British
Evangelical Hymnody
The Oxford
Movement
British
Liturgical Hymnody to ca. 1900
The Yattendon
Hymnal
The English
Hymnal, 1906
Assignments:
-
Complete the Study
Questions for Session 11 by
Tuesday, May 1 (last day of classes at Belmont Univ.). You will not
be able to submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 9 by Tuesday, May 1 (last day of classes at
Belmont Univ.) You will not be able to submit it after that date.
- Everyone is invited to Dr. Landes' piano
concert in the Belmont Mansion on Monday night, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Easter Break is April 5 - 8
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Session 12 The Hymn Explosion; post 1970
British and American Mainline Hymnody -- we will try to make this session
up before the end of the semester.
Mainline
Hymnody / Gospel Hymnody
American
Mainline Hymnody to ca. 1960
Transition
of the 1960's
Hymnal
Supplements
Trends in Late
20th Century Mainline English Hymnody
Important 20th Century English-language Hymn Writers:
Fred Pratt Green
Brian Wren
Fred Kaan
Thomas Troeger
Ruth Duck
Shirley Erena Murray
Important 20th Century Tune Writers:
C. Hubert Parry
Charles Stanford
Cyril Taylor
R. Vaughan Williams
Carl Schalk
Richard Proulx
David Hurd
Carol Doran
Assignments:
-
Complete the Study
Questions for Session 12 by
Tuesday, May 1 (last day of classes at Belmont Univ.). You will not
be able to submit them after that date.
- Complete Hymn
Tune Listening Quiz 10 by Tuesday, May
1 (last day of classes at Belmont Univ.) You will not be able to submit
it after that date.
- Complete Hymn Analysis #5 before
the beginning of the next session.
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Session 13 Thurs., April 19: Late 20th
Century Innovations
Taizé
Communitie
Iona
Communitie
Scarritt-Bennett
Center: Taize
Scarritt-Bennett
Center: Labyrinths
Grace Cathedral's
Labrynth
Contempletative Prayer
Contemplative/Centering
Prayer Overview
Contemplative Prayer
for Everyone
World
Community for Christian Meditation
Thomas Merton Links
The Thomas Merton Foundation
Assignments:
- Complete
the Study Questions
for Session 13 by by
Tuesday, May 1 (last day of classes at Belmont Univ.). You will not
be able to submit them after that date.
- Your ORIGINAL HYMN is due for the beginning
of the NEXT class session (so we can SING them!).
- Your Notebook is due by 4:00 p.m., Monday
May 7.
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Session 14 Thurs., April 26: Our Original
Hymns; Using Hymns Effectively
Let's sing our original hymns
Using Hymns
Effectively
Assignments:
- Complete
the Study Questions
for Session 14 by Monday, May 7. All outstanding work is due by
that date and no material of any kind will be accepted after that
date for any reason whatsoever.
- Your Notebook is due by 4:00 p.m., Monday
May 7.
- Any Extra Credit work is due by 4:00 p.m.,
Monday, May 7. Extra Credit work will not be accepted late.
All
outstanding work is due by 4:00 p.m., Monday, May 7. No material of
any kind will be accepted after that date for any reason whatsoever.
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Study Questions are required for
each session. Any individual set of Study Questions will be due the day before
the FOLLOWING session. Study Questions CANNOT be submitted late.
Hymn Tune Quiz due dates. Any individual
Hymn Tune Quiz will be due by the date listed . Hymn Tune Quiz CANNOT
be submitted late.
#1: by Wednesday, January 31
#2: by Wednesday, February 7
#3: by Wednesday, February 14
#4: by Wednesday, February 21
#5: by Wednesday, February 28
#6: by Wednesday, March 14
#7: by Wednesday, March 28
#8: by Wednesday, April 4
#9: by Wednesday, April 18
#10: by Wednesday, May 2
Hymn Analyses due dates. Hymn Analyses
CAN be submitted late but the grade will be lowered by ONE LETTER GRADE
for each 24 hour period it is late.
#1: before the start of class on Thursday, January 25
#2: before the start of class on Thursday, February 8
#3: before the start of class on Thursday, March 1
#4: before the start of class on Thursday, April 5
#5: before the start of class on Thursday, April 26
Original Hymn is due by the beginning
of the last class on Thursday, April 26. Your Original Hymn CAN be
submitted late but the grade will be lowered by ONE LETTER GRADE for each
24 hour period it is late.
Notebook is due by 4:00 p.m on Monday,
May 7. The Notebook CAN be submitted late but the grade will be lowered
by ONE LETTER GRADE for each 24 hour period it is late.
Any Extra Credit work such as a Research
Paper is due by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, May 7. Extra Credit work WILL
NOT be accepted late.