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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... voices, and the text becomes no longer the marks on the page but a series of sounds in the air. It may be revisited later, and reflected upon, but it is no longer just a text, no longer writing, but something else in addition to writing ...
... voices, and the text becomes no longer the marks on the page but a series of sounds in the air. It may be revisited later, and reflected upon, but it is no longer just a text, no longer writing, but something else in addition to writing ...
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... voice, and sing The mighty works, or mightier name, Of our eternal King. Isaac Watts begins this verse with a statement, and supplements it in line 2 with a parallel statement; but at the end of line 2 the reader/singer discovers that ...
... voice, and sing The mighty works, or mightier name, Of our eternal King. Isaac Watts begins this verse with a statement, and supplements it in line 2 with a parallel statement; but at the end of line 2 the reader/singer discovers that ...
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... Voice of Feeling (London, 1947), 21: 'The form of a work of art is inherent in the emotional situation of the artist ... It resists or rejects all attempts to fit the situation to a ready-made formula of expression ... '. Read ...
... Voice of Feeling (London, 1947), 21: 'The form of a work of art is inherent in the emotional situation of the artist ... It resists or rejects all attempts to fit the situation to a ready-made formula of expression ... '. Read ...
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... , The Saviour promised long; Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song. He comes the prisoners to release, In Satan's bondage held; The gates of brass before him burst, The iron fetters 32 THE SINGING OF HYMNS.
... , The Saviour promised long; Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song. He comes the prisoners to release, In Satan's bondage held; The gates of brass before him burst, The iron fetters 32 THE SINGING OF HYMNS.
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... voices raise; To us his gracious gifts belong, To him our songs of love and praise. Monsell has a semicolon at the end of line 2, as in the C.M. pattern, and this is still common in L.M. But the chief glory of L.M. is its ability to ...
... voices raise; To us his gracious gifts belong, To him our songs of love and praise. Monsell has a semicolon at the end of line 2, as in the C.M. pattern, and this is still common in L.M. But the chief glory of L.M. is its ability to ...
Inhalt
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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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