The Story of Christian Music: From Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel : An Authoritative Illustrated Guide to All the Major Traditions of Music for Worship

by Wilson-Dickson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780800629878
• ISBN10: 0800629876
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Throughout Christian history, some of the most creative musical geniuses have produced works to be performed for the church. From Gregorian chant to black gospel, this is an illustrated guide to all major traditions of music in worship and how music may be applied in worship by future generations.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(6)
Part 1 THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC	15	(42)
1 Music in the Old Testament	16	(8)
The Psalms in Temple Worship	20	(2)
Music in the Synagogue	22	(2)
2 Music in the Early Church	24	(5)
The Spread of Christianity	26	(3)
3 The Beginning of the Western Middle Ages	29	(4)
Worship in Fifth-Century Jerusalem	30	(3)
4 The Monastic Tradition	33	(5)
Antiphons	35	(2)
Cantillation	37	(1)
5 Music of the Spheres: the Medieval World-View	38	(4)
The Eleventh-Century Mass	41	(1)
6 Music for the Liturgy	42	(3)
The Development of Notation	44	(1)
7 From the Ear to the Page	45	(4)
Rich Church: Poor People	46	(4)
8 From Gregorian Chant to Polyphony	49	(6)
9 Wycliffe's Challenge to the Church	55	(2)
Part 2 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION	57	(26)
10 Luther and the Reformation	58	(6)
The Renaissance	59	(3)
Lutheran Song	62	(2)
11 The Swiss Reformers-the Calvinist Tradition	64	(3)
The Genevan Psalter	66	(1)
12 The Reformation in England	67	(5)
The Eton Choirbook	68	(4)
13 The Catholic Reformation	72	(9)
Organ Music	76	(2)
The Golden Age of Spanish Music	78	(3)
14 The Power of Music	81	(2)
Part 3 THE FLOWERING OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC	83	(36)
15 The Development of Oratorio	84	(3)
The Splendours of Monteverdi	86	(1)
16 The Music of the Lutheran Church	87	(3)
Christmas 1659 in the Nikolaikirche, Berlin	89	(1)
17 Heinrich Schutz	90	(3)
Patronage	92	(1)
18 J. S. Bach	93	(8)
Bach's Cantatas	95	(3)
The Moravian Brethren	98	(3)
19 Turmoil in England: Commonwealth and Restoration	101	(4)
20 The Glory of the Chapel Royal	105	(5)
The Music of the Chapel Royal	106	(2)
Henry Purcell	108	(2)
21 English Congregational Music: the Birth of the English Hymn	110	(9)
Handel and Messiah	114	(4)
Wales--Land of Song	118	(1)
Part 4 THE PATH DIVIDES	119	(24)
22 Music in the Courts of Europe	120	(2)
23 The Romantic Movement	122	(8)
The Cecilian Movement	124	(2)
The Corruption and Resurrection of the Chant	126	(4)
24 The Decline of the Lutheran Hymn	130	(3)
`A Dismal Melody'	131	(2)
25 The Church of England and the Tractarians	133	(5)
The Demise of the West Gallery Players	137	(1)
26 Revival in the Nineteenth Century	138	(3)
27 The Path Divides	141	(2)
Part 5 EASTERN TRADITIONS	143	(26)
28 The Orthodox Churches	144	(6)
Worship in the Orthodox Church	148	(2)
29 The Greek Orthodox Church	150	(6)
The Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church	153	(1)
Notation in the Greek Orthodox Church	154	(2)
30 The Russian Orthodox Church	156	(4)
31 The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches	160	(6)
Notation in Ethiopian Music	165	(1)
32 Christianity, East and West-Worlds Apart?	166	(3)
Part 6 THE AFRICAN GENIUS	169	(12)
33 Africa and the Influence of Western Music	170	(7)
Cameroun: African Christian Music	172	(2)
A Marriage of African and Western Music	174	(3)
34 The Independent Churches	177	(4)
The True Christian Music of Africa	178	(3)
Part 7 MUSIC IN NORTH AMERICA	181	(32)
35 Christianity comes to the New World	182	(9)
William Billings	186	(5)
36 Africans in America	191	(5)
Camp meetings	192	(2)
A `Shout'	194	(2)
37 North and South	196	(4)
The Fisk Jubilee Singers	198	(2)
38 Gospel Music: White and Black	200	(7)
Tommy Dorsey	204	(2)
Take Six	206	(1)
39 The United States and the European Classical Tradition	207	(5)
Charles Ives	210	(2)
40 The Charismatic Movement	212	(1)
Part 8 MUSIC IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE	213	(32)
41 Roman Catholic Music in Europe this Century	214	(9)
42 The Bible in the Concert Hall	219	(4)
43 Vatican II and the Liturgy	223	(5)
L'Abbe de Silvanes	224	(3)
Taize	227	(1)
44 Lutheran Musical Revival	228	(6)
Hugo Distler	230	(2)
The Kirchensteuer: Church Tax	232	(2)
45 Music in Britain	234	(6)
The Royal School of Church Music	236	(2)
Leaping into the Dark--Musical Innovation	238	(2)
46 The Popular Stream	240	(3)
47 Good Music--Good Worship?	243	(2)
What is Excellence?	244	(1)
Conclusion	245	(2)
Footnotes	247	(4)
Glossary	251	(3)
Index	254