Christopher N. Phillips
Autore di The Hymnal: A Reading History
Opere di Christopher N. Phillips
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (2018) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 5 copie
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Regretfully, the research is pretty limited to New England and the East Coast, and with little discussion about non-English hymnals from the mid-western or southern areas, especially in the German and Scandinavian languages, nor hymnals developed for Native Americans such as the Sioux or Cherokee languages.
However, within these parameters, this book does a good job in showing how hymnals developed from books of poetry with little printed musical notation, to the more robust service books used today. A side investigation correlates the development on indices in hymnals, that went further than just the subject, title and composer, but also to first lines of text.
The style of the book is pedantic and the reading is slow. But the book is recommended for seminary libraries, and for people interested in church music, choirs and the development of protestant church services evolution over several hundred years.… (altro)