Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient PeoplesDickinson, Edward
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Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples
Dickinson, Edward
Church music
Händel, 279, 297, 306, 319, 323, 354;
the “Messiah,” 307.
Hammerschmidt, 266.
Harmony, virtually unknown in ancient music, 18;
beginnings in modern music, 130;
change from mediaeval to modern, 201.
Hartmann von Aue, 229.
Hasler, 271.
Hauptmann, 321.
Havert, 212.
Haydn, mass music of, 205, 208;
“The Creation” stimulates formation of choral societies in Germany,
319.
Haves, 354.
Hazozerah, 22.
Heber, 381.
Hebrews, did not assign a superhuman source to music, 14;
their employment of music, 20;
nature and uses of instruments, 21;
ritualistic developments under David and Solomon, 24;
psalms and the method of singing them, 27.
Henry VIII., king of England,
declares himself head of the English Church, 325;
not the originator of the Reformation in England, 316;
changes in policy, 328.
Hervé, 122.
Hezekiah, restoration of the temple worship by, 25.
Holmes, 381.
Hooker, author of _The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_,
his defence of the music and art of the established Church,
367, 404.
Hooper, 329.
Hopkins, 355, 383.
Horder, author of _The Hymn Lover_, 381 n.
Hucbald, 136.
Hus, founder of Bohemian hymnody, 233.
Hymn-books, early Bohemian, 233;
first Lutheran, 249;
Catholic German, 264;
recent American, 385.
See also Psalmody.
Hymns, their first appearance in Christian literature and worship,
42, 46;
Greek hymns in the early Christian Church, 56.
Hymns, Bohemian, 233.
Hymns, English and American, 379 _et seq._;
“uninspired” hymns not permitted by Calvin and the Puritans,
361, 373;
hymns of Watts and the Wesleys, 379;
beauty and range of the later English and American hymnody,
380.
Hymns, Latin, 60, 235.
Hymns, Lutheran, historic importance of, 225, 303;
introduction into the liturgy, 247;
first hymn-books, 249.
See also Luther.
Hymns, pre-Reformation German, their history and character, 228;
not liturgic, 240.
Hymns, Syrian, 57.
Hymn-tunes, English, 382.
Hymn-tunes, German, see Choral.
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Ignatius, St., traditional introduction of chanting into the Church
by, 48.
Ildefonso, St, 118.
Instruments, how first used in worship, 3, 10;
their use in Egyptian ceremonies, 12;
among the Greeks, 14;
among the Hebrews, 21, 32;
not used in the early Church, 54.
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Jakob, quoted, 77, 175.
James, St., liturgy of, 49.
Jean de Muris, quoted, 146.
Jebb, quoted, 333, 335, 339.
Jews, see Hebrews.
John Damascene, St., 60.
John the Deacon, author of a life of Gregory I., 108.
Jomelli, 213.
Joaquin des Prés, 133, 154.
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