Research Catalog

Title

O for a thousand tongues : the history, nature, and influence of music in the Methodist tradition / James I. Warren, Jr.

Author

Warren, James I.

Publication

Grand Rapids, MI : Francis Asbury Press, ©1988.

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Details

Description

303 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Methodist Church USA
• Church music > Methodist Church
• Church music > United States
• Methodist Church > United States > Hymns > History and criticism
• Hymns, English > United States > History and criticism
• Musique d'église > Église méthodiste
• Musique d'église > États-Unis
• Church music > Methodist Church
• Church music
• Hymns, English
• Methodist Church
• Kirchenlied
• Geschichte
• United States

Genre/Form

• Hymns.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Hymns

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

American Methodism with a British accent : the music of the Wesleys. Concerns and goals of the early Methodists ; Practices of the early Methodists ; Early hymnbooks of the Methodist movement -- American Methodism with a voice of its own : experiencing community through song. The beginning of Methodist autonomy ; The ministry and music of Francis Asbury ; Circuit riders and camp meetings -- The era of gospel hymns : personal religion with a world ministry. The history and nature of the gospel hymn ; Two great gospel hymnists ; Gospel hymns and church outreach -- Blending churches and voices : union movements in the twentieth century. Black Methodists and their music ; From schism to union ; The second union ; Harbinger of the modern era : the hymns of Frank Mason North -- New voices for changing times : the sixties and beyond. Songs of protest and social unrest ; Ethnic and cultural pluralism in United Methodist hymnody ; Methodism's past and future in song -- Appendix : the United Methodist Hymnal of 1989.

ISBN

• 0310515300
• 9780310515302

LCCN

88019214

OCLC

• ocm18136716
• 18136716
• SCSB-9699411

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library