Opinions on church music
Subtitle: comments and reports from four-and-a-half centuries.
By: Selected and edited by Elwyn A. Wienandt.
Publisher: Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Church music -- Sources.; Church music -- Protestant churches.
Description: The place of music in worship has varied widely throughout the centuries. In the last two decades, music for the church has undergone drastic changes in style, in function, and in the attitudes of the people who perform it and listen to it. Understanding these changes is easier if we know the viewpoints of the past. Opinions on Church Music will help the reader do just that. In a representative selection of letters, essays, sermons, memoirs, dedications, prefaces, and other documents taken from the writings of musicians, critics, historians, clergymen, and the lay public, this anthology reflects a wide range of reactions to the musical scene as it touches upon the church. - Publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 203-205.