| Description |
xi, 407 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction and biographical sketch of Harry Eskew / Paul R. Powell -- The music of American Sunday Schools before 1875 / Virginia Cross -- A study of the revival spiritual Warrenton / Paul Hammond -- The shape-note tunebooks of Andrew W. Johnson of Tennessee / Marion Hatchett -- In defense of change : crucible of the church's song / Lee Hinson -- British kenotic Christologies / Fisher Humphreys -- The hymnological sleuth / Donald P. Hustad -- The melodies of Maria Lohuus in Gesangbuch der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz (1998) / Franz Krautwurst, translated by Hedda Durnbaugh -- Big Singing Day in Benton, Kentucky : the preservation of a 19th century style of singing / Deborah C. Loftis -- The failure of the Welsh hymn in Christian nurture / Alan Luff -- How knowledgeable of the Psalter was William Walker A.S.H.? / Hugh McElrath -- The musical notation in Marshall W. Taylor's A collection of revival hymns and plantation melodies / Wallace McKenzie -- Joshua Smith's Divine hymns and spiritual songs / David W. Music -- Early Southern composers represented in The sacred harp / Bob J. Neil -- A rare book for its day : the 1874 Hymnal and tune book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South / Lewis E. Oswalt -- Discovering the source of Amazing grace / Betty Pope -- The role of B.B. McKinney and The Broadman hymnal in the shaping of a distinctively Southern Baptist hymnody / Paul R. Powell -- Shape-note singing at 2500 feet / Joel F. Reed -- John Courtney and his hymnals : a preliminary study / Paul A. Richardson -- Joseph Swain, pioneer Baptist hymn writer / Joseph D. Scott -- The adventures of hymn tunes / Nicholas Temperley -- Hymns, the voice of a nation / Mary Louise VanDyke -- R.E. Winsett Music Company : a case study in Ma and Pa publishing or the growth of grassroots gospel / Mel R. Wilhoit -- How hymns do theology / Brian Wren -- Hymns and spiritual formation / Terry W. York -- Ethnic minority hymns in United States mainline Protestant hymnals 1940-1995 : some qualitative considerations / Carlton R. Young -- Appendix A. Bibliography of Harry Eskew's published works. |
| Subject |
Church music -- United States.
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Church music. |
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United States. |
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Hymns -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Hymns. |
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Powell, Paul Richard, 1942-
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Eskew, Harry.
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| ISBN |
9780944529478 alkaline paper |
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094452947X alkaline paper |
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