Author: Austin PhelpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Hymns and Choirs: Or, The Matter and the Manner of the Service of Song in the House of the Lord
Author: Austin PhelpsAmerican Presbyterian and Theological Review
Author: Henry Boynton SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The English Hymn
Author: Louis FitzGerald BensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Christian Examiner and Theological Review
Author: The Language of the New Century Hymnal
Author: Arthur G. ClydePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608992845
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Hymns and Choirs: Or, The Matter and the Manner of the Service of Song in the House of the Lord
Author: Austin PhelpsThe American Theological Review
Author: Catalogue of Books for a Pastor's Library
Author: The Hymnal
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America
Author: N. Lee OrrPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810836648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.