Selections from Lutheran works in Danish, German, Latin, Norwegian, and Swedish are offered in English translations for the first time by the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-296) and index.
Contents:
An historical survey of music in the Lutheran church. Cantus-firmus : laying the foundation ; Motet : the polyphony of old and new ; Fantasia : what language shall we borrow? ; Tone poem : the sonorous word ; Canticum novum : out of the old something new -- Toward a Christological aesthetic in Lutheran music. The incarnation and musical form ; The cross and the composer ; The resurrection and musical experience ; The office of the word and the musician.
Series:
American university studies. Series VII, Theology and religion ; v. 244.
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