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About this book
'Impressive in its scope... will provide instruction and delight to a wide range of readers.'
Calvin Stapert, Professor of Music, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tim Dowley traces the story of Christian music from its earliest Jewish origins, through the Renaissance, Reformation and up to the present day, discussing various liturgical traditions as well as non-liturgical sacred music. He also covers the fascinating story of hymns and sacred songs, and Christian expressions in modern jazz, folk, rock and pop.
This comprehensive book ranges widely, with specialist chapters on Christian music worldwide, and covers such varied topics as Christmas carols, the music of Handel and Bach, spirituals and the blues, medieval polyphony, Hildegard of Bingen and contemporary Christian music.
'A beautiful book with many fascinating insights.'
Sir David Willcocks CBE, MC
'For anyone with an interest in Christian culture... not only music enthusiasts.'
The Tablet
'Demonstrates just how rich, wide and varied has been the music and song of Christians of all kinds over the centuries.'
Irish Catholic
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Before the Church: The Jewish musical tradition
- 2 Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs: Music and the early Church
- 3 The Church goes public: Christian music after Constantine
- 4 Christian chant: The core of medieval worship
- 5 Music of the Orthodox Church
- 6 Medieval polyphony: The Church discovers harmony
- 7 The music of the Renaissance: The peaks of polyphony
- 8 āA safe strongholdā: The music of the Lutheran Reformation
- 9 āIn quires and places where they singā: The making of the Anglican tradition
- 10 Psalms, canticles and hymns: The genesis of Christian hymns
- 11 Gloria in excelsis Deo: The making of Catholic baroque
- 12 Christian music in Latin America
- 13 Bach and Handel: Two great Protestant baroque composers
- 14 The Viennese tradition: Liturgical and non-liturgical sacred music
- 15 Heights of intensity: Sacred music in the age of Romanticism
- 16 Hymns ancient and modern: The nineteenth-century hymn industry
- 17 Camp meetings and revivals: The making of the US gospel tradition
- 18 āI got a home in dat Rockā: Spirituals and the blues
- 19 āGod bless Africaā: Christian music in Africa
- 20 Christian music in Asia and Australasia
- 21 Apocalypse now! Sacred music and the concert hall
- 22 āSurely goodness and mercy shall follow meā: Popular church music
- 23 āGive me that old time religionā: Gospel music
- 24 āI wish weād all been readyā: The contemporary Christian music industry
- 25 āAināt nobody nowhere nothinā without Godā: Christians do country, folk and jazz
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index