Download or read book The Evolution of Church Music written by Frank L. Humphreys and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Church Music is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book Music in the History of the Western Church written by Edward Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples The practical administration of music in public wor ship is one of the most interesting of the secondary problems with which the Christian Church has been called upon to deal. Song has proved such a universal necessity in worship that it may almost be said, no music no Church. The endless diversity of musical forms and styles involves the perennial question, How shall music contribute most effectually to the ends which church worship has in view without renouncing those attributes upon which its freedom as fine art depends? The present volume is an attempt to show how this problem has been treated by different confessions and in different nations and times; how music, in issuing from the bosom of the Church, has been moulded under the influence of varying ideals of devotion, liturgic usages, national temperaments, and types and methods of ex pression current in secular art. It is the author's chief purpose and hope to arouse in the minds of ministers and non-professional lovers of music, as well as of church musicians, an interest in this branch of art such as they cannot feel so long as its history is unknown to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Evolution of Our Christian Hymnology Classic Reprint written by Francis Brewster Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Evolution of Our Christian Hymnology And Am I Only Born to Die; A Brighter Day; Ah! Lovely Appearance of Death; Away to School; And Am I Born to Die; Behold the Man Three Score and Ten; Call and Consecration; Down to the Tomb Our Brother Goes; False Are the Men of High Degree; Farewell, Farewell, Dear Friends; Fourteenth Chapter of John; Hark, from the Tombs; Heavenly Father, God of Nations; How Glorious Art Thou; Judgment Day Is Coming On; Lord, What a Thoughtless Wretch Was I; My Soul, Come Meditate the Day; Nearer, Still Nearer; O, the Love of God Almighty; Sabbath School Hymn; Singing School About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Music in the Church Classic Reprint written by George Wauchope Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Music in the Church The subject Of our study is Music in the Church, i.e. Music subject to the influence and employed in the service Of religion. Like all the other arts, music has been brought into close association with religion, and has not only been able to render valuable aid to the Church in her worship, but has itself been enormously benefited and enriched by the new Spirit breathed into it by that association. It was indeed the demands made by the Church upon the art that awakened it from the lethargy in which it lay, and urged it forward to develop its resources. The early history Of music, once it attained the dignity Of an art worthy to have its history recorded, is almost entirely a history of sacred music. But the association of music with religion is not merely a matter Of past history. TO the present day that association continues with most beneficial results both to the Church and to the art of music. True, with the advance Of the art it was able to strike out new forms and to develop along other lines. Sacred music, instead Of being the whole of the art, is now only one branch Of it. But it is a branch of the utmost importance. The art would be incalculably the poorer were the musical wealth which it has poured into the treasury Of the Church not credited to it. And on the other hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Church Music in America written by Nathaniel D. Gould and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Church Music in America: Comprising Its History and Its Peculiarities at Different Periods, With Cursory Remarks on Its Legitimate Use and Its Abuse Billings' Concerts and Exhibitions, Billings' Voice; Personal Appearance and Habits. - Of Lining the Hymn, Billings' Musical Publications, American Authors. Musical Notes and Characters, Of English Methods of Teaching. Miss Glover and Others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of Music Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Emil Naumann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Music, Vol. 2 Hitherto, in tracing the history of Church music, we have noticed how rigidly the melodic and rhythmical side only of the tonal art had been developed. Henceforth it was to be a free, self-existing art. The trammels of conventionality and clerical doctrines, by which it had been bound for so long, were now cast on one side, and in the development of polyphony, a new, independent, and unshackled existence was about to begin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of Church Music written by Edward Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Church Music: Syllabus With Bibliographical References, for a Course of Twenty-Five Lectures Given at Oberlin Theological Seminary, January-May, 1896 Religious song among the most ancient nations; Assyrians; Egyptians. Function of instrumental music in ancient religious ceremony. Symbolism; miraculous origin and powers ascribed to music. The most ancient vocal music was probably a heightening of speech inflection, an irregular chanting; its rhythm was subject to that of the poetry. Music was not a free independent art. Har mony was unknown. Music therefore did not progress beyond a half-barbaric condition. Controlled by the priestly class who op posed innovation. Music among the Greeks was more refined, but restrained by similar ideas; made little sign of progress until after the golden age of Greek art was past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Church Music written by Edward Hicks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Church Music: A Popular Sketch; Being a Glance at Its Origin, Development, and Present Use Nothing in the following pages can lay claim to any special originality, and the facts stated are simply common property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of English Cathedral Music 1549 1889 Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by John S. Bumpus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of English Cathedral Music, 1549-1889, Vol. 1 In short, the Church was provided at the Refor mation with a uniform Service Book, that whereas heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in churches within this Realm, some following Salisbury Use, some Hereford Use, and some the Use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln now from henceforth all the whole Realm shall have but one Use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Church Music Vol 2 written by J. Fischer and Bro and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Church Music, Vol. 2: November, 1906 This volume contains 576 pages (besides 32 pages of Music Supplements) of the very best of Church music literature, combining theory with practical illustration, by the fore most authorities, including the Solesmes school, in England, America, France, Italy and Germany. Any one at all interested in the subject of Catholic liturgy who looks over the complete table of contents of this volume will be convinced that it covers every phase of the question of Church-music reform, and that its first appeal has been not only dignified in the best sense of the word, but also all-sided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Musical Ministries in the Church written by Waldo Selden Pratt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Musical Ministries in the Church: Studies in the History, Theory and Administration of Sacred Music This volume, then, makes no pretension to be an elaborate or comprehensive treatise. It is rather a series of popular studies on selected aspects of a great and fertile sub ject, growing out of the experience of a church musician and a teacher in a theo logical seminary for many years, which are now set forth simply in the hope that the lines of thought that have proved of some interest to those who have been met as stu dents may be not without suggestiveness to a wider circle in the ministry and among church musicians generally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of Music written by Frederic Louis Ritter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Music: In the Form of Lectures The historical treatment of two important topics, viz., English Protestant church music, and the Song-form (lied, chanson, song, ballad, will find a place in my next volume, the greater part of which, however, will treat of Music in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A First Series of Church Songs Classic Reprint written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A First Series of Church Songs A want has been long felt for a collection of Church songs to supplement the Hymn Book - songs with a distinctly Church and religious tendency, without being hymns. From the workshop, the kitchen, and the stable, we hear the most sacred words warbled lightly, because they have become familiar in church or chapel wedded to taking tunes. The English people, for lack of national "Volkslieder" such as the Germans possess, have become a hymn-singing people; and the hymn is sung regardless of the character of the words, because the people are cheerful and want to sing. Of late years Messrs. Sankey and Moody, and, later still, the "Salvation Army," have introduced religious songs which have at once become favourites, because the airs have been secular, and, in some cases, the words rollicking. The result has been a distinct lowering of the reverence of the people for holy things and holy words. Sacred aspirations and names, at which angels and devils bow, are trolled out or roared to music-hall tunes, sometimes by tipsy men, and often without thought. The tendency of these songs is not only to irreverence and profanity, but also to encourage heretical views of the scheme of Salvation. Justification is upheld as a sentimental outgush of excited hysteria, not as the gradual growth of a spiritual life; and this mischievous teaching poisons the sources of the moral conscience. In compiling the collection now presented to Churchmen, the authors have done their best to insist cm definite truth, and to make the song a vehicle for impressing some facts necessary to salvation on the minds of those who sing them. They have aimed especially at giving definite expressions to the doctrine of "the Catholic Church," a doctrine which is presupposed, rather than insisted on, in our hymnals. The Church's year brings the great facts of Our Lord's life and the event of Pentecost before people's minds, and the hymns accentuate the lessons of the gospels for the Festivals. But there is no great feast of the "Holy Catholic Church" at which this verity of the faith is insisted on; whence the need of supplementing the hymnal with Church songs teaching this doctrine, to be used at mission services, social gatherings, and in processions. In an age of flux in religious belief, and disintegration, social, political, moral and religious, we cannot sufficiently impress on the minds of Christians the fact of the unity of the Church Catholic in all ages and in all places, and of her being the one immutable guardian of the truth, moral and religious, amidst the general change and upheaval, and disturbance of traditional beliefs. A hymn should have its distinct character, be objective, and void of mawkish sentiment. It should be addressed to God, and not to the human soul, nor should it be an oblique sermon. It is an act of worship and praise. But a sacred song need not be so restricted; thus, such songs as "By the gate they meet us," "Sinner, come to Jesus," "We won't give up the Bible," "Nearer home," and the like are unsuitable for public worship, but they are tolerable at the religious class, in the home circle on a Sunday evening, and nor schools. The songs in this collection belong to this category: they are adapted both as to words and tunes for use outside the church as a supplement to the Hymnal. Just thirty years ago, the writer of this introduction began a similar collection, and laid it aside. He saw then that there was a need for such a book, but the demand had not come, so the time was not ripe for its production. In selecting the melodies rather a wide field has been travelled over. Some that may not appear of much merit when tried over on the piano are taken because experience has proved them to be good workable tunes when sung by a body of voices. The harmonies throughout have been composed, re-written, or revised by the Rev. H. Fleetwood She
Download or read book A History of the Choir and Music of Trinity Church New York written by Arthur Henry Messiter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Choir and Music of Trinity Church, New York: From Its Organization, to the Year 1897 Dr. Edward Hodges left thirty folio volumes of closely written details of his daily musical life. As they contain much matter of a personal nature, I was not permitted to examine them, but his son, the Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, D.D., of Baltimore, very kindly read to me everything relating to my subject, and I wrote out such extracts then and there. Dr. Cutler gave me the unrestricted use of his pri vate records; two or three small volumes, containing pro grammes of services, criticism, etc. These were also of great value. The Rev. Dr. Dix kindly lent me some extracts from the Vestry Minutes, made for the purpose of his own his tory of the Parish; these covered only a limited period up to 1797. I am also indebted to several veterans of the earlier choirs, notably Mr. A. G. Wood and Mr. J. Outcalt, for interesting details. The development of Church music in the older coun tries has been the work of centuries; we move fast here, and, aided by their experience, have advanced from the crudest beginnings to the highest achievements in about fifty years. My imperfect picture of such development will, it is hoped, prove interesting not only to those who have taken part in the services herein described, but also to Church musicians and Church members generally. This book is published now by former members of Trinity Church Choir who look back with pleasure to their participation in the music of the Church, and retain their kind regard for the old choirmaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home Classic Reprint written by American Unitarian Association and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home This book is a revised edition of the Hymn and Tune Book published by the American Unitarian Associa tion in 1868. The hymns and tunes that could best be spared are replaced by hymns and music, new and old, gathered from the ample resources supplied within the last ten years by composers and compilers of all denominations in England and America. To all whose contributions and labors have helped to enrich this book, our obligations are gratefully acknowledged. While many hymns have been restored to their original text, some slight changes, established by familiar usage, have been accepted without note. Hymns with substantial varia tions from the original are indicated by the sign 1 attached to the author's name. The collection has been made catholic and inclusive for varying moods and experiences, and for manifold phases of thought. Its aim is to present within moderate size, and with appropriate music, the best hymns in the English tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Church Music Classic Reprint written by Maurice Frederick Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Church Music He now believes that he sees his way clearly with regard to some of the matters he has to treat upon he is still puzzled with regard to others. If his book, with all its failings, gives pause to thought and promotes discussion, and if, with God's blessing, such thought and discussion should end in the further improvement of the music of our parish churches, whether according to the lines laid down here or otherwise, he will be indeed grateful that he has been allowed to make thus his humble contribution to the furtherance of the greater glory of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scottish Church Music Its Composers and Sources Classic Reprint written by James Love and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Church Music, Its Composers and Sources In a special measure I have to thank my friend Miss C. L. Gair, The Kilns, Falkirk, for much valuable aid, generously extended to me during the years I have been engaged on this work. That the book may be of use to all who are interested in Church music is my earnest wish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
