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Exploring Christian Song (Paperback)
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Exploring Christian Song (Paperback)
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This essay collection celebrates the richness of Christian musical
tradition across its two thousand year history and across the
globe. Opening with a consideration of the fourth-century
lamp-lighting hymn Phos hilaron and closing with reflections on
contemporary efforts of Ghanaian composers to create Christian
worship music in African idioms, the ten contributors engage with a
broad ecumenical array of sacred music. Topics encompass Roman
Catholic sacred music in medieval and Renaissance Europe, German
Lutheran song in the eighteenth century, English hymnody in
colonial America, Methodist hymnody adopted by Southern Baptists in
the nineteenth century, and Genevan psalmody adapted to respond to
the post-war tribulations of the Hungarian Reformed Church. The
scope of the volume is further diversified by the inclusion of
contemporary Christian topics that address the evangelical methods
of a unique Orthodox Christian composer's language, the shared aims
and methods of African-American preaching and gospel music, and the
affective didactic power of American evangelical "praise and
worship" music. New material on several key composers, including
Jacob Obrecht, J.S. Bach, George Philipp Telemann, C.P.E. Bach,
Zoltan Kodaly, and Arvo Part, appears within the book. Taken
together, these essays embrace a stimulating variety of
interdisciplinary analytical and methodological approaches, drawing
on cultural, literary critical, theological, ritual,
ethnographical, and media studies. The collection contributes to
discussions of spirituality in music and, in particular, to the
unifying aspects of Christian sacred music across time, space, and
faith traditions. This collection celebrates the fifteenth
anniversary of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music.
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