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
Pachelbel, 292.
Palestrina, 93, 133, 151;
the Mass of Pope Marcellus, 152, 154;
myth of the rescue of church music by Palestrina, 152;
compared with Lassus, 173.
“Palestrina style,” 158;
tonality, 158;
construction, 159;
tone color, how produced, 166;
aesthetic and religious effect, 173, 177;
limits of characterization, 178.
Palmer, 381.
Parallelism in Hebrew poetry, 28.
Parochial mode of performing the Anglican service, 335.
Passion music, German, 270, 272;
origin and early development, 274;
from Schütz to Bach, Hamburg Passions, 280.
Passion play, 274.
Pater, quoted, 400.
Paul, St., his injunction in regard to song, 42;
allusion to the glossolalia, 44.
Pergolesi, 213.
Philo, 48.
Pietism, its effect on church music, 266, 319.
Plain Song, see Chant, Catholic ritual; also Chant, Anglican.
Plato, his opinion of the purpose of music, 14.
Pliny, his report to Trajan concerning Christian singing, 47.
Plutarch on the function of music, 15.
“Pointing,” 341.
Post-Communion, 90.
Prayer Book, see Common Prayer, Book of.
Preface, 88.
Psalmody, Puritan, 369, 373;
methods of singing, 377, 405.
Psalms, how sung in the ancient Hebrew worship, 27;
adopted by the Christians, 41;
antiphonal psalmody in Milan in the fourth century, 66;
in Rome in the fifth century, 67;
in the Church of England, see Chant, Anglican;
metrical psalm versions, see Psalmody.
Psalter, Geneva, origin of, 359.
Psaltery, 23.
Purcell, 347, 352.
Puritanism, 324, 327, 358, 364 _et seq._
Puritans, their hostility to artistic music, 365 _et seq._;
their attacks upon episcopacy and ritualism, 366, 369;
their ravages in the churches, 371;
their tenets and usages maintained after the Restoration, 372;
Puritan music in America, 390.
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Recitative, 188.
Reformation in England, its nature, causes, and progress, 325 _et
seq._
Reinken, 295.
Reinmar der Zweter, 229.
Renaissance, its influence upon musical development, 185, 187, 272;
parallel between Renaissance religious painting and Catholic
Church music, 194.
Requiem Mass, 85.
Rheinberger, 212.
Richter, 321.
Ridley, 329.
Robert, king of France, 147.
Romanus, 119.
Rossini, religious music of, 207, 213.
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