Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-363) and indexes.
Contents
The Study of Church Music -- Old Testament -- Prolegoneman -- Psalms -- New Testament -- Canticle -- The First Centuries -- With One Voice -- Diffusion -- Before and After Charlemagne -- Chant -- Choirs and Thought -- Life and Song -- Reformation Currents -- Sound, Silence, and Strictures -- A Wider Spectrum -- Controversies Over Psalm Singing -- After the Reformation -- English Hymns -- Music -- Before and After the French and American Revolutions -- American Developments -- Revivalism, Liturgical Renewal, and Spirituals -- Recurrent American Themes and Richer Textures