Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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.