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: 9780800634742
• ISBN10: 0800634748
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Music has been at the heart of Christian worship since the beginning, and this lavishly illustrated and wonderfully written volume fully surveys the many centuries of creative Christian musical experimentation. From its roots in Jewish and Hellenistic music, through the rich tapestry of medieval chant to the full flowering of Christian music in the centuries after the Reformation and the many musical expressions of a now-global Christianity, Wilson-Dickson conveys 'a glimpse of the fecundity of imagination with which humanity has responded to the creator God.' Book jacket.

Author Biography

Andrew Wilson-Dickson holds a doctorate in music composition from York University. He has been since 1984 a Principal Lecturer at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, and involved in music at his local church and with the Cambrensis, the South Wales Baptist Choir

Table of Contents

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