A survey of Christian hymnody / [print]
William J. Reynolds, Milburn Price.
- third edition.ition.
- Carol Stream, Illinois : Hope Pub. Company, (c)1987.
- xviii, 301 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Early church song. The Book of Psalms ; Old Testament canticles ; New Testament hymns ; Early Christian hymnody ; Byzantine hymnody ; The development of Latin hymnody -- The Lutheran chorale. The significance of Martin Luther ; Increasing popularity of congregational singing ; Seventeenth-century developments ; Pietism ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; Hymnody outside the Lutheran tradition ; Nineteenth-century efforts at reform ; Scandinavian contributions -- Psalmody. Influence of John Calvin ; Sternhold and Hopkins ; Other English psalters ; Scottish psalters ; Tate and Brady's "New version" ; Other tune books ; Musical development in psalm tunes ; The decline of the metrical psalm ; Psalmody and musical education -- English hymnody I. Metrical hymns added to the psalters ; Devotional lyric poetry ; Initial efforts among Anglicans and Presbyterians ; Baptists initiate congregational hymn singing ; Isaac Watts ; Wesleyan hymnody ; Hymnody of the evangelical revival ; Independents, Presbyterians, and Baptists ; Moravian hymnody in England ; Hymn singing in the Church of England ; Transitional writers : Montgomery and Kelly -- English hymnody II. The nineteenth century ; The Oxford movement ; Hymns ancient and modern ; Victorian hymns and tunes ; Non-Anglican hymnody ; The twentieth century -- American hymnody I. Psalmody in colonial America ; Attempts to improve psalm singing ; Early American singing schools ; Immigrants and influences ; Hymn singing of the Great Awakening ; Denominational activity ; Camp-meeting songs ; Folk hymnody ; Shaped notation ; Other early-nineteenth-century developments -- American hymnody II. The emergence of the gospel song ; Late-nineteenth-century hymnals ; Expansion of southern shaped-note singing ; Twentieth-century hymnals ; American hymnal companions ; Twentieth-century texts and tunes ; Influence on twentieth-century developments ; Contemporary trends.