Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Author: Clark, Martin
Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a fascinating [...] foray into notions of Victorian spirituality and musicianship. Topics are diverse and thought-provoking... [the book has]... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction, Martin V. Clarke
- The theology of the Victorian hymn tune, Ian Bradley
- 'Meet and right it is to sing': 19th-century hymnals and the reasons for singing, Martin V. Clarke
- Sacred sound for a holy space: dogma, worship and music at solemn Mass during the Victorian era, 1829-1903, T.E. Muir
- 'Thy love ...hath broken every barrier down': the rhetoric of intimacy in 19th-century British and American women's hymns, C. Michael Hawn and June Hadden Hobbs
- Christianity, civilisation, and music: 19th-century British missionaries and the control of Malagasy hymnology, Charles Edward McGuire
- 'Sing a Sankey': the rise of gospel hymnody in Great Britain, Mel. R. Wilhoit
- 'Singin' in the reign': voice, faith and the Welsh revival of 1904-1905, James Deaville and Katherine Stopa
- Beyond the Psalms: the metamorphosis of the anthem text during the 19th century, Peter Horton
- From Elijah (1846) to The Kingdom (1906): music and scripture interacting in the 19th-century English oratorio, David Brown
- Confidence and anxiety in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Jeremy S. Begbie
- 'Spiritual' selection: Joseph Goddard and the music theology of evolution, Bennett Zon
- Bibliography
- Index.