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Christian music : a global history
- Title
- Christian music : a global history / Tim Dowley ; [contributors, Sugu J.M. Chandy ... et al.].
- Author
- Dowley, Tim.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Chandy, Sugu J. M.
- Description
- 263 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical and discographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Before the church: the Jewish musical tradition -- 2. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs: music and the early church -- 3. The church goes public: Christian music after Constantine. Music in the Orthodox Church / Ivan Moody -- 4. Christian chant: the core of medieval worship. "Sybil of the Rhine": Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) -- 5. Medieval polyphony: the church discovers harmony. "Ave verum corpus" -- 6. The music of the Renaissance: the peaks of polyphony. The organ / Mike Wheeler -- 7. A safe stronghold: the music of the Lutheran Reformation. Sermons in song: the Moravians and their music ; The psalmodikon: another way of accompanying hymns -- 8. "In quires and places where they sing...": the making of the Anglican tradition. Oranges and lemons: the story of church bells -- 9. Psalms, canticles, and hymns: the genesis of Christian hymns. "Amazing grace" -- 10. Gloria in excelsis Deo: the making of Catholic Baroque. Christian music in Latin America: 1500-1800 / Pablo Sosa -- 11. Bach and Handel: two great Protestant Baroque composers -- 12. The Viennese tradition: liturgical and non-liturgical sacred music. Music in the Orthodox Church in Russia / Ivan Moody -- 13. Heights of intensity: sacred music in the age of romanticism -- 14. Hymns ancient and modern: the nineteenth-century hymn industry. Robbing the devil of his choicest tunes: music and the Salvation Army ; In the deep midwinter: the story of carols ; The legendary story of "Silent night" -- 15. Camp meetings and revivals: the making of the American gospel tradition. Christian music in Africa / J. Nathan Corbitt -- 16. "I got a home in dat rock...": spirituals and the blues. "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika" -- 17. Apocalypse now!: sacred music and the concert hall in the twentieth century. Christian music in Latin America since 1800 / Pablo Sosa -- 18. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me": popular church music in the twentieth century. "How great Thou art" ; Music among Christians in south-east Asia / Michael Nai-Chiu Poon -- 19. "(Give me that) old time religion": gospel music in the twentieth century. Music among Christians in the Indian Subcontinent / Sugu J.M. Chandy -- 20. "I wish we'd all been ready": the making of the contemporary Christian music industry. Christian music in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Evans -- 21. "Ain't nobody nowhere nothin' without God": Christians do country, folk, and jazz. Christian music in China / Angela Tam ; Christian music of the Pacific Islands / Mark Evans.
- Call Number
- JME 12-81
- ISBN
- 9780800698416
- 080069841X
- OCLC
- 696099238
- Author
- Dowley, Tim.
- Title
- Christian music : a global history / Tim Dowley ; [contributors, Sugu J.M. Chandy ... et al.].
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical and discographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
- Added Author
- Chandy, Sugu J. M.
- Research Call Number
- JME 12-81