Early History of the Music of the Baptist Church ...
Author: Roberta Adele Russell
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Published: 1947
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Author: Roberta Adele Russell
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Published: 1947
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David W. Music
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780865549487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaptists have a long and rich heritage of congregational song. The hymns Baptists have sung and the books from which they have sung them have been shaping forces for Baptist theology, worship, and piety. Baptist authors and composers have provided songs that have made an impact not only among Baptists in America but also across denominational and geographic lines. Congregational singing continues to be a key component of Baptist worship in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of the British background, this book is a survey of the history of Baptist hymnody in America from Baptist beginnings in the New World to the present. Its intent is to help the reader better understand the background against which current Baptist congregational song practices operate. Unlike earlier writings on the subject, this book provides both comprehensive coverage and a continuous narrative. It gives thorough attention to the major Baptist bodies in America as well as calling attention to the contributions of significant smaller groups. The British Baptist background is dealt with in an introductory section. The book also includes many texts and tunes as illustrations of the topics being discussed and focuses on some of the contributions of Baptist authors and composers to the repertory of congregational song. Book jacket.
Author: Alf Anderson
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 44
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addition to unraveling the musical implications of an early-nineteenth century hymnal, this book addresses an area of American musical history that has not received its due attention: pre-shape-note, Southern sacred music. Jesse Mercer managed to found several Baptist churches, supervised educational mission schools for the Creek and Cherokee Indians, championed the cause of higher education, developed and refined an influential hymn repertory, a project that spanned nearly half of his 53 year ministry. The author argues that the 1810 edition Mercer's "Cluster of Spiritual Songs" deserves special attention because it is the definitive source for the earliest stratum of Evangelical hymnody in the lower South and it served as textual "midwife" for later southern singing school tune books such as William Walker's "Southern Harmony and Musical Companion" (1835) and B. F. White and E. J. King's "The Sacred Harp" (1844). This book presents these two dimensions sequentially, focusing first on how Mercer's religious, social, and cultural contexts shaped his Baptist hymnodic "offspring," then turning to the texts of the 1810 edition and providing a tune repertory for them from eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century singing school tune books.
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0310208068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Author: Roger DAVIS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0674030249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBanished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state.
Author: Rose Blue
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0791058182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of gospel music, from its roots in Africa to the present day.