The Hymnal 1982 Companion, Volume 1

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Church Hymnal Corporation, 1990 - Music - 2949 pages
The complete four-volume set includes major essays and relevant discussions of the musical forms in The Hymnal 1982 which cover such topics as popular religious song, cultural diversity, the relationship between The Hymnal 1982 and the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer, the development of service music in the Episcopal Church, hymn forms, and a brief history of Christian hymnody in the United States and Britain. In addition, complete information is given on all hymns and service music which includes the sources of text and music as well as biographical and technical facts. (2,949 pp)

Contents

What is Congregational Song?
3
Popular Religious Song
13
Cultural Diversity
29
Accompaniment and Leadership of Congregational Song
40
The Publication of the Hymnal of the Episcopal
49
John Dowlands PSALM 100 FRENCH TUNE from
51
The Creation of The Hymnal 1982
76
The Hymnal 1982 and the Liturgies of the Book
99
German Church Song
288
The Welsh Hymn Tune
310
A Historical Survey of Christian Hymnody in
319
The Tunes of Congregational Song in Britain from
330
British Hymnody from the Sixteenth Through
365
1
385
3
391
Psalmody in America to the Civil War
393

The Great Vigil of Easter
111
Two Hundred Years of Service Music in Episcopal
139
Title page of The Service Book from The Hymnal With
144
Psalm 6 set to simplified Anglican chant S414
156
The Development of Plainchant to the Counter
160
Adapted plainchant bound in leaf within a 1549 edition
183
Charles Winfred Douglas and Adaptation of Plainsong
194
A faburden derived by rule
216
Chant tune notationsseventeenth century
222
Rhythmic Interpretation of Chant
238
Contemporary Use of Chant
253
The Office Hymn
269
The Carol
282
40
407
4029
415
British Hymnody in the Nineteenth Century
417
Hymnody in the United States from the Civil War
441
77
459
99
470
British Hymnody 19001950
474
133
484
APPENDIX A A Philosophy For Hymnal Revision
637
APPENDIX BA Checklist of Music Publications for
645
GLOSSARY
677
GENERAL INDEX
705

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About the author (1990)

Glover is professor of music and chapel organist at Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria.

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