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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Birth of Christian Music | |
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| Music in the Old Testament | |
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| The Psalms in Temple Worship | |
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| Music in the Synagogue | |
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| Music in the Early Church | |
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| The Spread of Christianity | |
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| The Beginning of the Western Middle Ages | |
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| Worship in Fifth-Century Jerusalem | |
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| The Monastic Tradition | |
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| Antiphons | |
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| Cantillation | |
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| Music of the Spheres: the Medieval World-View | |
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| The Eleventh-Century Mass | |
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| Music for the Liturgy | |
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| The Development of Notation | |
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| From the Ear to the Page | |
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| Rich Church: Poor People | |
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| From Gregorian Chant to Polyphony | |
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| Wycliffe's Challenge to the Church | |
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| Renaissance and Reformation | |
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| Luther and the Reformation | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Lutheran Song | |
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| The Swiss Reformers-the Calvinist Tradition | |
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| The Genevan Psalter | |
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| The Reformation in England | |
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| The Eton Choirbook | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| Organ Music | |
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| The Golden Age of Spanish Music | |
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| The Power of Music | |
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| The Flowering of Christian Music | |
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| The Development of Oratorio | |
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| The Splendours of Monteverdi | |
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| The Music of the Lutheran Church | |
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| Christmas 1659 in the Nikolaikirche, Berlin | |
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| Heinrich Schutz | |
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| Patronage | |
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| J.S. Bach | |
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| Bach's Cantatas | |
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| The Moravian Brethren | |
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| Turmoil in England: Commonwealth and Restoration | |
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| The Glory of the Chapel Royal | |
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| The Music of the Chapel Royal | |
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| Henry Purcell | |
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| English Congregational Music: the Birth of the English Hymn | |
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| Handel and Messiah | |
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| Wales--Land of Song | |
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| The Path Divides | |
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| Music in the Courts of Europe | |
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| The Romantic Movement | |
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| The Cecilian Movement | |
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| The Corruption and Resurrection of the Chant | |
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| The Decline of the Lutheran Hymn | |
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| 'A Dismal Melody' | |
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| The Church of England and the Tractarians | |
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| The Demise of the West Gallery Players | |
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| Revival in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Path Divides | |
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| Eastern Traditions | |
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| The Orthodox Churches | |
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| Worship in the Orthodox Church | |
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| The Greek Orthodox Church | |
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| The Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church | |
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| Notation in the Greek Orthodox Church | |
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| The Russian Orthodox Church | |
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| The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches | |
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| Notation in Ethiopian Music | |
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| Christianity, East and West-Worlds Apart? | |
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| The African Genius | |
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| Africa and the Influence of Western Music | |
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| Cameroun: African Christian Music | |
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| A Marriage of African and Western Music | |
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| The Independent Churches | |
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| The True Christian Music of Africa | |
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| Music in North America | |
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| Christianity comes to the New World | |
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| William Billings | |
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| Africans in America | |
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| Camp meetings | |
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| A 'Shout' | |
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| North and South | |
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| The Fisk Jubilee Singers | |
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| Gospel Music: White and Black | |
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| Tommy Dorsey | |
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| Take Six | |
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| The United States and the European Classical Tradition | |
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| Charles Ives | |
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| The Charismatic Movement | |
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| Music in Twentieth-Century Europe | |
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| Roman Catholic Music in Europe this Century | |
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| The Bible in the Concert Hall | |
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| Vatican II and the Liturgy | |
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| L'Abbe de Silvanes | |
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| Taize | |
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| Lutheran Musical Revival | |
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| Hugo Distler | |
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| The Kirchensteuer: Church Tax | |
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| Music in Britain | |
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| The Royal School of Church Music | |
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| Leaping into the Dark--Musical Innovation | |
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| The Popular Stream | |
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| Good Music--Good Worship? | |
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| What is excellence? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |