Patterns of Protestant church music /

Stevenson, Robert, 1916-2012.,

Patterns of Protestant church music / [print] by Robert M. Stevenson. - [Durham, North Carolina] : Duke University Press, (c)1953. - viii, 219 pages ; 23 cm.



Luther's musical achievement -- Reformed church music : the basic implications of Calvin's philosophy of church music -- John Merbecke and the first English prayer book -- Bach's religious environment : the wellsprings of religious emotion that nourished his creative life -- J.S. Bach's "appeals to Caesar" -- Bach's quarrel with the rector of St. Thomas school -- Handelian oratorio -- Dr. Watts's "flights of fancy" -- John Wesley's first hymnbook -- The musical Wesleys : the flowering of musical genius in the Wesley family of the second and third generations -- John Mason Neale and tractarian hymnody -- Ira D. Sankey and the growth of "gospel hymnody" -- Twentieth-century papal pronouncements on music : the impact of papal teaching in the United States -- The Jewish Union hymnal.



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Church music--Protestant churches.

ML3100.S848.P388 1953 ML3100