An Annotated Anthology of Hymns

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J.R. Watson
OUP Oxford, 20/06/2002 - 452 páginas
An Annotated Anthology of Hymns treats the hymn as a literary form deserving of respect. 250 hymns from the English-speaking world are printed, covering the range from the earliest years of the Christian church to the present day, with notes on the words and the tunes. The anthology takes the hymn seriously, in an an age in which hymn-singing is less common than it was. It should appeal to hymn-lovers, but also to those who want to find out more about hymns.

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Índice

Introduction
1
1 Ancient and Medieval Hymns
10
England and Germany
65
Anglicans and Puritans
93
4 Isaac Watts
121
5 The Early Eighteenth Century
147
6 Charles Wesley
164
7 The Later Eighteenth Century
205
10 Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCentury American Hymns
358
11 The Early TwentiethCentury
381
12 The MidTwentieth Century and the Hymn Explosion
396
Copyright Acknowledgements
435
Author Index
437
Index of Composers and Arrangers
440
Index of Hymns
443
Index of Tunes
447

8 The Romantic Movement and the Early Nineteenth Century
235
9 The High Victorian Period
288

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J.R. Watson is Emeritus Professor of English and Emeritus Public Orator of the University of Durham. Twenty years ago he chose for the subject of his Inaugural Lecture, 'The Victorian Hymn'. He was serving at the time on the committee of the Methodist (and Ecumenical) Hymns and Psalms (1983), and later edited, with Kenneth Trickett, the Companion to Hymns and Psalms (1988). He was a member of the Archbishops' Commission on Church music, and more recently of the editorial committee responsible for the latest revision of Hymns Ancient and Modern, Common Praise (2000). His critical and historical study, The English Hymn, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 (paperback 1999).

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