Church music in history and practice : studies in the praise of God / by Winfred Douglas.
| Author/creator | Douglas, Winfred |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Charles Scribner's sons, 1940, ©1937. |
| Description | xvi, 311 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Hale lectures ; [1935] |
| Contents | Foundation principles of church music. The nature of worship -- Music expresses human life -- Church music expresses the life of the body of Christ -- Early Christian music is a blend of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin elements. The Hebrew element ; The Greek element ; Minor miscellaneous elements ; The Latin element -- Principles deduced -- The music of the Eucharist before polyphony. The Gregorian Antiphonale Missarum. The music of the choir (the introit, the gradual respond, the alleluia respond, the tract, the offertory, the communion) ; Music of the celebrant, assistants, and congregation Sursum corda and the preface (the Pater noster, the scripture lessons, the collects) ; Music of the congregation (Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Sanctus) ; Later additions to the congregational music (the Nicene creed, Agnus Dei) -- The Roman Schola Cantorum. Its formation ; Its extension ; Dissemination of the chant ; Development of notation -- New types of plainsong developed later. The sequence ; The ordinary of the mass ; Tropes -- The music of the Eucharist from the rise of polyphony to the present time. The evolution of polyphony. Mensurable notation and the consequent decay of plainsong ; The musical form known as a mass -- Influences of the Reformation -- The English Reformation and church music. Re-assertion of ancient principles ; Their decline ; English polyphonists -- The restoration of the sung eucharist -- The music of the office before the Reformation: Gregorian psalmody. The growth of the office -- Central importance of the psalter -- Early methods of psalmody. Direct psalmody ; Responsorial psalmody ; Antiphonal psalmody ; Principles of antiphonal psalmody ; The antiphons ; Method of prose chanting in plainsong ; Musical origin of the chants ; The chant of the gospel canticles -- The decline of the plainsong office. Rhymed offices ; Descant and faux-bourdon ; Continuation of free rhythm in polyphony -- Office music since the Reformation. Absolute and applied music -- Urges toward change at the Reformation. Toward the vernacular ; Toward simplicity ; Toward uniformity ; The Booke of Common Praier Noted -- The Anglican chant. Its formation ; Its history ; Its corruption ; Its historic and proper method -- Possible antiphons in harmony -- Importance of the psalter in worship -- Services in anthem form. The short service ; The great service ; The revival of service writing -- The anthem. Its desirability ; Its origin ; Its authority ; Its secularization ; Its religious restoration -- The pre-Reformation liturgical hymn. Origins. Gloria patri ; Pre-Christian hymns ; Gospel canticles ; Early Christian Greek hymns ; Te Deum laudamus -- The rhythmical hymn of the west. A safeguard of Christian faith ; In popular rhythm, rather than in classical metre ; St. Ambrose -- The office hymn. Its dissemination and rich growth ; Examples in the Hymnal ; Proper office hymns should be restored to use -- Liturgical hymns of the Holy Eucharist. A primitive Irish communion hymn ; The processional hymn ; The sequence -- Anglican eclectic hymnody: later pre-Reformation sources. Introduction: contemporary Anglican hymnody -- The decline of the Latin hymn. An age of imitation ; Baneful effect of Italian humanism ; Urban VIII ; Polyphonic settings -- New beginnings in vernacular hymnody. The carol ; Laudi spirituali ; Spanish melodies ; Noels ; Piae Cantiones -- Anglican eclectic hymnody: post-Reformation sources. The Lutheran chorale. Contemporary English versions -- Genevan psalmody. Clement Marot ; Louis Bourgeois -- English metrical psalmody. Calvinist influence forbids hymns ; Sternhold and Hopkins's metrical psalms ; Elizabeth's injunctions permit hymns ; George Wither: Orlando Gibbons -- The dawn of the eighteenth century. Jeremiah Clark: Playford's Divine Companion ; Lyra Davidica -- The contribution of nonconformity. Isaac Watts -- The contribution of the evangelical revival. The hymnody of German pietism. Johann Sebastian Bach ; The influence of the Wesleys ; Olney hymns -- A century of reform. What is a catholic. Three vital religious movements -- The triumph of Anglican eclectic hymnody. The hymnody of Romanticism: Reginald Heber ; The hymnody of the Oxford revival (Revival of the Latin hymn in translation, revival of the folksong carol, revival of the plainsong hymn, revival of the German chorale, hymns ancient and modern, twentieth-century hymnals) -- Growth of the American episcopalian hymnal -- The Oxford movement and church music. Recent plainsong service books ; Music of the religious orders -- The Benedictine revival. Comparative study of ancient manuscripts ; The Motu Proprio of Pius X -- English and American commissions on church music -- Present treasures and future hopes -- Programs performed during the lectures -- The Hale lectures. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 275-283) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 37016358 |