| Description |
viii, 219 pages ; 23 cm |
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0 Luther's musical achievement -- Reformed church music : the basic implications of Calvin's philosophy of church music -- John Merbecke and the first English prayer book -- Bach's religious environment : the wellsprings of religious emotion that nourished his creative life -- J.S. Bach's "appeals to Caesar" -- Bach's quarrel with the rector of St. Thomas school -- Handelian oratorio -- Dr. Watts's "flights of fancy" -- John Wesley's first hymnbook -- The musical Wesleys : the flowering of musical genius in the Wesley family of the second and third generations -- John Mason Neale and tractarian hymnody -- Ira D. Sankey and the growth of "gospel hymnody" -- Twentieth-century papal pronouncements on music : the impact of papal teaching in the United States -- The Jewish Union hymnal. |
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Church music -- Protestant churches.
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Church music -- Protestant churches. |
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