Te Deum : The Church and Music

by Westermeyer, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780800631468
• ISBN10: 0800631463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

A concise introductory text, Te Deum provides a basic framework for understanding within history the development of the vast treasury of psalms, hymns, canticles, spiritual songs, and other sacred music within the Christian tradition. This is the first text which addresses the nature of church music from both a historical and theological context.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix
1. The Study of Church Music	1	(8)
OLD TESTAMENT	9	(30)
2. Prolegomena	9	(14)
3. Psalms	23	(16)
NEW TESTAMENT	39	(20)
4. Canticles	39	(20)
THE FIRST CENTURIES	59	(34)
5. With One Voice	59	(18)
6. Diffusion	77	(16)
BEFORE AND AFTER CHARLEMAGNE	93	(48)
7. Chant	93	(18)
8. Choirs and Thought	111	(10)
9. Life and Song	121	(20)
REFORMATION CURRENTS	141	(60)
10. Sound, Silence, and Strictures	141	(20)
11. A Wider Spectrum	161	(18)
12. Controversies Over Psalm Singing	179	(22)
AFTER THE REFORMATION	201	(44)
13. English Hymns	201	(21)
14. Music	222	(23)
BEFORE AND AFTER THE FRENCH AND AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS	245	(66)
15. American Developments	245	(18)
16. Revivalism, Liturgical Renewal, and Spirituals	263	(26)
17. Recurrent American Themes and Richer Textures	289	(22)
NOW	311	(10)
18. Postscript	311	(10)
Chronology	321	(12)
Bibliography	333	(34)
General Index	367	(44)
Biblical References	411