The History and Use of Hymns and Hymn-tunes

My special thanks are due to the Rev. Louis F. Benson, D.D., and Professor Edward Dickinson for the use of copy-righted material. I am also under great obligations to my colleague, Professor Charles N. Boyd, instructor in church music in the Western Theological Seminary, for his kind revision of Part II. on hymn-tunes. DAVID R. BRIED.

CONTENTS

Antiquity of Sacred Song. Hebrew Hymns. Early

Christian Hymns.

II. GREEK AND LATIN HYMNS

21

Influence of Early Heresies. Greek Hymns. Latin

Hymns. Greek and Latin Hymns Compared. The

Two Bernards.

III. GERMAN HYMNS

37

Ante-Reformation Hymns. Luther and His Co-la-

borers. Later Authors.

Usage. Lists of King and Benson. Indispensable

Qualities.

Phillip Doddridge. Charles Wesley. Anna Steele.

William Williams. John Cennick.

John Newton. William Cowper. Edward Perronet.

Augustus M. Toplady.

X. HYMNS OF SECOND PERIOD. I

148

The Contrast in Hymnody. Benjamin Beddome.

James Montgomery. Harriet Auber. Mrs. Vokes.

John Marriott.

Reginald Heber. Thomas Hastings. Phoebe Brown.
Sir Robert Grant. Henry Kirk White.

Charlotte Elliott. John Keble. Henry F. Lyte. Wil-

liam Cullen Bryant. George Washington Doane.

John Henry Newman.

XIII. HYMNS OF SECOND PERIOD. IV

209

Sarah Flower Adams. Elizabeth P. Prentiss. Ray

Palmer. Samuel F. Smith. Horatius Bonar. Henry

Alford.

Jane Borthwick. Sarah Findlater. Catherine Wink-
worth. Frederick W. Faber. Edward Caswall. John
M. Neale. Anna L. Waring. Cecil F. Alexander.
Frances R. Havergal. William Walsham How.

PART II: TUNES

XV. HISTORY OF HYMN-TUNES. PERIOD I

255

The Homophonic Era. Greek Scales. Ambrose.

Gregory the Great. Hucbald.

XVI. HISTORY OF HYMN-TUNES. PERIOD II - 268

The Development of Polyphony. Guido Arentino.

Counterpoint. Franco. Palestrina.

XVII. THE APPEARING OF THE HYMN-TUNE.

PERIOD III