Music in early Christian literature
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Music in early Christian literature
（Cambridge readings in the literature of music）
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. 172-177
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian liturgical music. This volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available. The passages are arranged chronologically and regionally in eleven chapters with brief commentary. An introduction sets out the major subjects and themes of the original source material.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The New Testament
- 2. The Christian literature of the first and second centuries
- 3. The Greek authors of the third century
- 4. The western authors of the third and early fourth centuries
- 5. Fourth-century Alexandria and desert monasticism
- 6. Fourth-century Asia Minor: the Cappadocians
- 7. Palestine, Antioch and Syria
- 8. The Greek historians
- 9. The Apostolic Constitutions, Egeria, and the eastern councils
- 10. Western authors of the fourth and early fifth centuries
- 11. Augustine and minor western authors
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of musical and liturgical terms and concepts.
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