Exploring Christian Song

Herausgeber: Bloxam, M Jennifer; Shenton, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ecumenical essay collection explores the rich Christian song tradition across its two-thousand-year history and around the globe. Employing a variety of methodologies and approaches, contributors engage the topic of spirituality in music in order to reveal both the diversity and the unifying power of Christian sacred music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781498549905
• ISBN-10: 149854990X
• Artikelnr.: 47882125

Autorenporträt

M. Jennifer Bloxam is professor of music at Williams College. Andrew Shenton is associate professor of music at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
"Contemplating Christian Song in Context"
Building Bridges with Christian Song I
1. "Song as a Sign and Means of Christian Unity"
Reading Books of Catholic Song c. 1500
2. "The Late Medieval Composer as Cleric: Browsing Chant Manuscripts with
Obrecht"
3. "Reading Ottaviano Petrucci's Early Motet Prints as Devotional Books"
Theology and Lutheran Song in the 18th Century
4. "Theology and Musical Conventions in the Arias of J. S. Bach"
5. "Apocalyptic Visions and Moral Education in the Age of Enlightenment:
Earthquakes and the Sublime in Oratorios by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and
Georg Philipp Telemann"
Christian Song in 20th-Century Eastern Europe
6. "Kodály's Genevan Psalm 50: The Composer as Prophet in an Age of Crisis"
7. "Magnificat: Arvo Pärt the Quiet Evangelist"
Preaching through Christian Song in Contemporary America
8. "Sounding Belief: 'Tuning Up' and 'the Gospel Imagination'"
9. "?Songs are like sermons that people actually remember': Homo Liturgicus
an