| Description |
6 audiocassettes (360 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. + study guide |
| Playing Time |
060000 |
| Physical Medium |
3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. |
| Description |
analog |
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magnetic |
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1 7/8 ips |
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half (2) track |
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mono |
| Note |
Title taken from container and study guide. |
| Summary |
A professor of church music surveys the history of Christian hymnody up to the 20th century. |
| Contents |
1. The beginnings of hymnody: hymns in the worship of the early and medieval church. Hymns and carols outside church: the people's song in the Middle Ages -- 2. Reformation hymnody: the age of Martin Luther. German hymnody 1600-1715: the rise and flowering of Pietist hymnody -- 3. The psalmody of Calvin's Geneva, 1539-62. The beginnings of English psalmody, 1549-1677 -- 4. Isaac Watts, the liberator of English hymnody. The Wesleys and the beginnings of evangelical hymnody -- 5. Some famous musicians and their contributions to hymnody: Tallis, Gibbons, Lawes, Purcell and his school, Handel. American hymnody, 1776-1900. Lowell Mason and the New England style. The shape-note hymns. The black spirituals. The gospel songs -- 6. The romantic hymnody of England, and the Oxford Movement. Some Victorian composers, from Dykes to Parry. |
| Reproduction |
Also available through Westminster Choir College's digital collections (digitized by Westminster Choir College from master tapes, 2014). |
| Subject |
Hymns -- History and criticism.
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Hymns. |
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Church music.
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Church music. |
| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Lectures.
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Lectures.
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Speeches.
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Speeches.
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