Book Description
Includes hymnody from medieval plain chant to the early twentieth-century classics. This work includes hymns that are grouped according to theme and contains material suitable for any festival or occasion in the life of a church.
Author : Oxford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780192311122
Includes hymnody from medieval plain chant to the early twentieth-century classics. This work includes hymns that are grouped according to theme and contains material suitable for any festival or occasion in the life of a church.
Author : Alexander Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN : 9780828010627
Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421425939
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
Author : Samuel Willoughby Duffield
Publisher : New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Composers
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN :
Author : English Hymnal Co.
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
Page : 1824 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786220059
Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; and a new English folk mass setting.
Author : Madeleine Forrell Marshall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0813161754
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.
Author : English Hymnal Co
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781853117305
To commemorate the centenary in Spring 2006 of 'The English Hymnal', this entirely new supplement comprises fifty hymns together with a range of seasonal material and responsorial psalms, as well as some new tunes for existing items.
Author : Canterbury Press
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781853110023
Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms and a new English folk mass setting.