Originally published: Oxford, England ; Batavia, Ill. : Lion Pub., 1992.

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 Sch�utz : 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'Abb�e de Silvan�es ; Taiz�e -- 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?