Music in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521376246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available. The passages are arranged chronologically and regionally in eleven chapters with brief commentary. This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. An introduction sets out the major subjects and themes of the original source material.. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian liturgical music
. He authored numerous books and articles on medieval music, including "The Early Christian Period" and "The Latin Middle Ages" (1998). McKinnon was Richard H. Fogel Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to his death in February 1999, James W
"This is a book to be grateful for since the extracts are intelligently selected and helpfully commented on, while the new translations are as lucid as may be expected with such opaque writings." The Times Literary Supplement
Early Christian Perspectives on Music Dwight Gingrich This is an excellent book for music historians or for those who are just curious enough to be amateur music theologians like me. James McKinnon has collected a large and diverse representative selection of source writings on music from the first 450 years of the early Church. One quickly learns that there is no one "early Christian perspective," but a range of views across time and space.As McKinnon states in his introduction, there are "four principle categories of materia