Music in the history of the western church
Subtitle: with an introduction on religious music among primitive and ancient peoples
By: by Edward Dickinson
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1902
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Church music
Notes: "A few of the chapters in this work have appeared in somewhat modified form in the American Catholic quarterly review, the Bibliotheca sacra, and Music."

Bibliography: p. 411-415.
Table of contents: title: Primitive and ancient religious music.; title: Ritual and song in the early Christian church.; title: The liturgy of the Catholic Church.; title: The ritual chant of the Catholic Church.; title: The development of mediæval chorus music.; title: The modern musical mass.; title: The rise of Lutheran hymnody.; title: Rise of the German cantata and passion.; title: The culmination of German Protestant music: Johann Sebastian Bach.; title: The musical system of the Church of England.; title: Congregational song in England and America.; title: Problems of church music in America.