"With one heart and one voice"
Subtitle: a core repertory of hymn tunes published for use in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1808-1878
By: Fred Kimball Graham
Series: Drew University studies in liturgy -- no. 12; Drew studies in liturgy -- no. 12
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Methodist Church -- United States -- Hymns -- History and criticism; Hymn tunes -- History and criticism; Hymns, English -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Methodist Episcopal Church -- History
Description: ""With One Heart and One Voice" reviews the trends surrounding the styles of selected tunes and analyzes the changes in shape and text for the most frequently used melodies in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventy-six "core repertory" tunes are examined based on their repeated appearances in tune books published between 1808 and 1878, at which point Methodists finally created a hymnal with both words and music, after a half century of experimentation." "This work allows scholars, hymnologists, and hymn singers to explore the social and musicological influences on hymn tune writing, how long it took for texts to acquire a fixed harmony, how tastes in hymn tunes change ever so slowly, and how many delightful tunes found in the core repertory of the nineteenth century have been dropped from today's repertoire."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165)
Table of contents: title: Hymn singing in early America; title: Methodist tunes and tunebooks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: The classifications of tunes contained in the core repertory of tunes in tunebooks of the Methodist Episcopal Church; title: Interpretation and conclusions