Christian music
Subtitle: a global history
By: Tim Dowley ; [contributors, Sugu J.M. Chandy ... et al.].
Contributors: Chandy, Sugu J. M.
Edition: Fortress Press ed.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780800698416
Subjects: Church music
Notes: Includes bibliographical and discographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Before the church: the Jewish musical tradition; title: 2. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs : music and the early church; title: 3. The church goes public : Christian music after Constantine; title: Music in the Orthodox Church / Ivan Moody; title: 4. Christian chant : the core of medieval worship; title: "Sybil of the Rhine" : Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179); title: 5. Medieval polyphony : the church discovers harmony; title: "Ave verum corpus"; title: 6. The music of the Renaissance : the peaks of polyphony; title: The organ / Mike Wheeler; title: 7. A safe stronghold : the music of the Lutheran Reformation; title: Sermons in song : the Moravians and their music; title: The psalmodikon : another way of accompanying hymns; title: 8. "In quires and places where they sing; title: " : the making of the Anglican tradition; title: Oranges and lemons : the story of church bells; title: 9. Psalms, canticles, and hymns : the genesis of Christian hymns; title: "Amazing grace"; title: 10. Gloria in excelsis Deo : the making of Catholic Baroque; title: Christian music in Latin America : 1500-1800 / Pablo Sosa; title: 11. Bach and Handel : two great Protestant Baroque composers; title: 12. The Viennese tradition : liturgical and non-liturgical sacred music; title: Music in the Orthodox Church in Russia / Ivan Moody; title: 13. Heights of intensity : sacred music in the age of romanticism; title: 14. Hymns ancient and modern : the nineteenth-century hymn industry; title: Robbing the devil of his choicest tunes : music and the Salvation Army; title: In the deep midwinter : the story of carols; title: The legendary story of "Silent night"; title: 15. Camp meetings and revivals : the making of the American gospel tradition; title: Christian music in Africa / J. Nathan Corbitt; title: 16. "I got a home in dat rock; title: " : spirituals and the blues; title: "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika"; title: 17. Apocalypse now! : sacred music and the concert hall in the twentieth century; title: Christian music in Latin America since 1800 / Pablo Sosa; title: 18. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me" : popular church music in the twentieth century; title: "How great Thou art"; title: Music among Christians in south-east Asia / Michael Nai-Chiu Poon; title: 19. "(Give me that) old time religion" : gospel music in the twentieth century; title: Music among Christians in the Indian Subcontinent / Sugu J.M. Chandy; title: 20. "I wish we'd all been ready" : the making of the contemporary Christian music industry; title: Christian music in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Evans; title: 21. "Ain't nobody nowhere nothin' without God" : Christians do country, folk, and jazz; title: Christian music in China / Angela Tam; title: Christian music of the Pacific Islands / Mark Evans.