A new song for an old world: musical thought in the early church

Calvin R. Stapert

Resource Type:: Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007
Related Series:: Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series

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Table of Contents:: Prelude: honor father and mother
The song of the church in the New Testament
The church in a pagan society
Clement of Alexandria : musical cosmology and composed manners
Tertullian : pagan spectacles and Christian households
Expansion and persecution, triumph and trouble
St. Ambrose : administrator and mystic
St. John Chrysostom : Christian households amid the devil's garbage heap
Rejection : the music of a pagan world
Affirmation : Psalms and hymns
St. Augustine : the problems of eloquence and inordinate love.
Author/Creator:: Stapert, Calvin, 1942-
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: A new song for an old world: musical thought in the early church [by Stapert, C.]
Related Series:: Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series
Subjects:: Music — Religious aspects — Christianity
Church music
Music — Philosophy and aesthetics
Public worship
Bible — Psalms — Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Church music — To 500
Bible — Psalms
Bible
To 500
Music
Genres:: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
Hartsock
Physical Description:: xiv, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Call Numbers:: ML2902 .S8 2007
ISBNs:: 0802832199 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780802832191 (pbk., alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2006028677
OCLC Numbers:: 71275475