Music and the Wesleys
By: edited by Nicholas Temperley and Stephen Banfield
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780252035814; 9780252077678
Subjects: Congresses; English Hymns; History and criticism; Church music; Methodist Church
Notes: "This book originated in a conference, Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys, hosted by CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth) and held at the University of Bristol in July 2007"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and Methodism. John Wesley, music, and the people called Methodists / Nicholas Temperley ; Charles Wesley and the music of poetry / J.R. Watson ; Psalms and hymns and hymns and sacred poems : two strands of Wesleyan hymn collections / Robin A. Leaver ; John Frederick Lampe's hymns on the Great Festivals and other occasions / Martin V. Clarke ; Methodist anthems : the set piece in English psalmody (1750-1850) / Sally Drage ; The music of Methodism in nineteenth-century America / Anne Bagnall Yardley ; Eucharistic piety in American Methodist hymnody (1786-1889) / Geoffrey C. Moore ; The musical settings of Charles Wesley's hymns (1742 to 2008) / Carlton R. Young; title: The Wesley musicians. Style, will, and the environment : three composers at odds with history / Stephen Banfield ; Charles Wesley's family and the musical life of Bristol / Jonathan Barry ; Pictorial precocity : John Russell's portraits of Charles and Samuel Wesley / Peter S. Forsaith ; Harmony and discord in the Wesley family concerts / Alyson McLamore ; Father and sons : Charles, Samuel, and Charles the younger / Philip Olleson ; Samuel Wesley as an antiquarian composer / Peter Holman ; The anthem texts and word setting of Sebastian Wesley / Peter Horton ; The legacy of Sebastian Wesley / Stephen Banfield and Nicholas Temperley.