The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyOUP Oxford, 10.07.1997 - 564 Seiten D.H. Lawrence, writing of the poems that had meant most to him, said that they were `still not woven so deep in me as the rather banal Nonconformist hymns that penetrated through and through my childhood'. It is not easy to account for this, and most writing about hymns has not helped because it has concentrated on their content and function in worship and liturgy. In the present book the author tries to account for feelings like Lawrence's by examining the hymn form and its progress through the centuries from the Reformation to the present day. He begins by discussing the status of a hymn text and relates it to the demands made upon it by the needs of singing. A chronological study then traces the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There are chapters on American hymnody and women's hymn writing, and sections on gospel hymns and the translation of German hymnody. A final chapter takes the story into the twentieth century, with a brief postscript on the revival of hymn writing since 1960. |
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... Rest, and Arabia, and Eaton, Above all embraces of body by wooers who sought me and won! 16 The recital of these names of hymn tunes (many of them still in use) is the telling-over of the names of loved ones, in a kind of ecstasy of ...
... Rest, and Arabia, and Eaton, Above all embraces of body by wooers who sought me and won! 16 The recital of these names of hymn tunes (many of them still in use) is the telling-over of the names of loved ones, in a kind of ecstasy of ...
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... rest while we can tell two; ... A semicolon separates betwixt the bigger parts or branches of the same sentence, and directs us to rest while we can tell three; ... A 46 Edward FitzGerald said that he 'heard' Shakespeare as he read it ...
... rest while we can tell two; ... A semicolon separates betwixt the bigger parts or branches of the same sentence, and directs us to rest while we can tell three; ... A 46 Edward FitzGerald said that he 'heard' Shakespeare as he read it ...
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... rest while we can tell five or six, if the sentence be long; or while we can tell four, if it be short.47 A hymn exists, not just on the page, but in sound; it functions in a private reading, but also in a church. The building is filled ...
... rest while we can tell five or six, if the sentence be long; or while we can tell four, if it be short.47 A hymn exists, not just on the page, but in sound; it functions in a private reading, but also in a church. The building is filled ...
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... rest, often on a major chord, followed by a momentary silence, and then the singers go back to the beginning. The words carry on, are linear; the tune is circular. The circles are repeated, but the words change: the direction of the ...
... rest, often on a major chord, followed by a momentary silence, and then the singers go back to the beginning. The words carry on, are linear; the tune is circular. The circles are repeated, but the words change: the direction of the ...
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... rest at the end of the fourth line. Then, after a pause, the hymn begins again, with different words: the words parallel those of the first verse, develop the ideas, running the same tune again, so that words and music form a kind of ...
... rest at the end of the fourth line. Then, after a pause, the hymn begins again, with different words: the words parallel those of the first verse, develop the ideas, running the same tune again, so that words and music form a kind of ...
Inhalt
1 | |
22 | |
42 | |
George Wither and Others | 57 |
5 The SeventeenthCentury Anglican Tradition | 81 |
Puritan Psalms and Hymns | 103 |
7 Isaac Watts | 133 |
8 After Watts | 171 |
Montgomery Heber Keble | 300 |
13 The Victorian Hymn | 335 |
14 The Oxford Movement and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody | 355 |
15 Hymns Ancient and Modern | 387 |
16 Victorian Women HymnWriters | 422 |
17 American Hymnody | 461 |
18 Different Traditions | 486 |
19 Into the Twentieth Century | 511 |
9 John and Charles Wesley | 205 |
10 Charles Wesley and His Art | 230 |
11 After the Wesleys | 265 |
Select Bibliography | 533 |
Index | 547 |
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