Mormonism and Music
Subtitle: A HISTORY (Music in American Life)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252071478
Subjects: Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints); Music; Music/Songbooks; Religion; History & Criticism - General; Religious - Christian; Religious - Hymns; Religion / Mormonism; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saomts (Mormon); History and criticism; Hymns; Hymns, English; Mormon Church; Mormons; United States
First sentence: Four days after Christmas 1824 Egbert Grandin, editor of the Wayne Sentinel in Palmyra, New York, printed this column filler on the newspaper's back page: "Next to theology, I give a place to music: for thereby all anger is forgotten, the devil is driven away, and melancholy, and many tribulations, and evil thoughts are expelled.