The story of Christian music : from Gregorian chant to Black gospel : an authoritative illustrated guide to all the major traditions of music for worship / Andrew Wilson-Dickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson-Dickson, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Fortress Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 1996.

Summary:

Just as the psalms were at the heart of worship in Jewish temple and synagogue, so has music been central to Christian worship. Throughout Christian history, some of the most creative musical geniuses have produced works to be performed for the church. This book narrates a continuing history of such music and projects ahead to how music may be applied in worship by future generations.

Contents:

pt. 1. The birth of Christian music. Music in the Old Testament : The Psalms in temple worship ; Music in the synagogue

Music in the early church : The spread of Christianity

The beginning of the Western Middle Ages : Worship in fifth-century Jerusalem

The monastic tradition : Antiphons ; Cantillation

Music of the spheres : the medieval world-view : The eleventh-century Mass

Music for the liturgy : The development of notation

From the ear to the page : Rich church : poor people

From Gregorian Chant to polyphony

Wycliffe's challenge to the church

pt. 2. Renaissance and Reformation. Luther and the Reformation : The Renaissance ; Lutheran song

The Swiss reformers

the Calvinist tradition : The Genevan Psalter

The Reformation in England : The Eton Choirbook

The Catholic Reformation : Organ music ; The golden age of Spanish music

The power of music

pt. 3. The flowering of Christian music. The development of oratorio : The splendours of Monteverdi

The music of the Lutheran Church : Christmas 1659 in the Nikolaikirche, Berlin

Heinrich Schütz : Patronage

J.S. Bach : Bach's cantatas ; The Moravian Brethren

Turmoil in England : Commonwealth and Restoration

The glory of the Chapel Royal : The music of the Chapel Royal ; Henry Purcell

English congregational music : the birth of the English hymn : Handel and Messiah ; Wales

land of song

pt. 4. The path divides. Music in the courts of Europe

The Romantic movement : The Cecilian movement ; The corruption and resurrection of the chant

The decline of the Lutheran hymn : 'A dismal melody'

The Church of England and the Tractarians : The demise of the west gallery players

Revival in the nineteenth century

The path divides

pt. 5. Eastern traditions. The Orthodox churches : Worship in the Orthodox Church

The Greek Orthodox Church : The divine liturgy of the Orthodox Church ; Notation in the Greek Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church

The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches : Notation in Ethiopian music

Christianity, East and West

worlds apart?

pt. 6. The African genius. Africa and the influence of Western music : Cameroun : African Christian music ; A marriage of African and Western music

The independent churches : The true Christian music of Africa

pt. 7. Music in North America. Christianity comes to the New World : William Billings

Africans in America : Camp meetings ; A 'shout'

North and South : The Fisk Jubilee Singers

Gospel music : white and black : Tommy Dorsey ; Take six

The United States and the European classical tradition : Charles Ives

The charismatic movement

pt. 8. Music in twentieth-century Europe. Roman Catholic music in Europe this century

The Bible in the concert hall

Vatican II and the liturgy : L'Abbé de Silvanès ; Tatzé

Lutheran musical revival : Hugo Distler ; The Kirchensteuer : church tax

Music in Britain : The Royal School of Church Music ; Leaping into the dark

musical innovation

The popular stream

Good music

good worship? : What is excellence?

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford, England : Lion Publishing, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

ISBN:

0800629876

OCLC:

36817860