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Fred Kimball Graham - 'With One Heart and One Voice' - 9780810849839 - V9780810849839
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'With One Heart and One Voice'

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Description for 'With One Heart and One Voice' Hardback. Series: Drew University Studies in Liturgy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 803.
The publication by John Wesley of the "Foundery" Collection (1742) marked the establishment of standards for tunes suited to Methodist hymn singing. Early Methodist hymn books in the United States contained words only, but they were cross-referenced with a leader's tune book, beginning with David's Companion (1808). "With One Heart and One Voice" reviews the trends surrounding the styles of tunes selected and analyzes the changes in shape and text for the most frequently used tunes in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventy six "core repertory" tunes are analyzed based upon their repeated appearances in most of the tune books published between 1808 and 1878, at which point Methodists finally obtained a hymnal with both words and music, after a half century of experimentation with tune selection. The conclusions reached in this work will allow scholars, hymnologists, and hymn singers to explore the social and musicological influences on hymn tune writing, how long it took for texts to acquire a "fixed tune," how tastes in hymn tunes change ever so slowly, and how many delightful tunes found in the core repertory of the 19th century have been dropped from today's repertoire.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Drew University Studies in Liturgy
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810849839
SKU
V9780810849839
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Fred Kimball Graham
Fred Kimball Graham is Assistant Professor of Church Music, University Organist, and Director of Basic Degree Studies, at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Reviews for 'With One Heart and One Voice'
This carefully researched study offers a fascinating look at tunes officially sanctioned for use by the Methodists during a seventy-year period in the nineteenth century....This is by any measure a most impressive piece of musicological scholarship....We are indebted to Fred Graham's meticulous analysis and patient culling of many sources for his proposal of the core repertory.
Doxology
...recommended....Though Graham's focus was the hymn tunes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, this book provides insight into the history and development of hymn tunes and hymn singing in the United States during the nineteenth century.
Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2005 (vol 9, no 3)

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