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Plainsong hymnody. Its nature, structure and notation, plainsong hymns ; Rhythm and meter, sequences, variation and borrowings -- Sacred and secular in the late Middle Ages. Unliturgical hymns and carols ; Guidetti: Piae Cantiones ; Laudi Spirituali ; Counter-Reformation hymnody -- The age of Luther. Luther's chorales and those of the generation following -- Calvin's psalters. Strasbourg and Geneva, 1539-62 -- The beginnings of English and Scottish psalmody, 1549-64. Anglo-Genevan psalters: the old version and its tunes -- The developed psalm tunes, 1564-1677. The common tune: Este, Daman, Ravenscroft, the later Scottish psalters, Playford -- Unofficial psalters and hymn books, 1560-1637. Coverdale, Ainsworth, Barton, Tallis, Hunnys, Gibbons, Lawes -- Psalmody after the Restoration, 1677-1738. Influence of Purcell and Clarke -- German hymnody, 1600-1850. Ballad style, pietist hymnody, later decline -- J. S. Bach and hymnody. The Chorale-arrangements and the Schemelli Gesangbuch -- English evangelicalism, 1738-1800. The Wesley hymn books and the Charity Foundation -- Roman Catholic hymnody, 1680-1850. French Diocesan hymn tunes, English Catholic tunes, Catholic tunes elsewhere -- The English 19th century I. Evangelical and activist, 1800-60. Psalm and hymn tunes in England and Scotland, the singing schools -- The English 19th century II, 1860-90. Liturgical seriousness and a new popular taste. The Oxford movement, antiquarianism, Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868) -- Victorian composers I. Dykes, Monk, Gauntlett, Smart, Hopkins, Barnby -- Victorian composers II. Stainer, Sullivan, Wesley, nonconformist hymnody, Catholic hymnody -- The Edwardians, 1890-1920. Parry, Stanford, Wood, Selby, Gray, Harwoo, Bairstow, Walford Davies -- Welsh hymn tunes, 1730-1900 -- American hymnody I, 1776-1900. The New England style: the country hymnody of the Appalachian settlements -- American hymnody II. The black spirituals: the gospel songs -- England: the 20th century Renaissance, 1900-30. Percy Dearmer, Vaughan Williams and the English Hymnal, Martin and Geoffrey Shaw and Songs of Praise -- Two educational forces in England, 1900-55. The public schools and the British Broadcasting Corporation -- Other English hymn books, 1900-55. Sir Sydney Nicholson and Hymns Ancient and Modern (1950), The Church Hymnary, The Irish Church Hymnal, Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists -- Confusion and creativeness in Britain, since 1955. Church light music, church folk, the evangelicals, Hymns for Church and School -- New adventures in Britain. The Cambridge Hymnal, the supplements, the church of Scotland, new Catholic hymnody -- The twentieth century in America, Canada and Australia -- Contemporary hymnody in non-English speaking regions. Cantate Domino, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Africa, India, China and the Far East, South America. |
