PREFACE

This humble little work is the outcome of personalinterest and some lecture work in the field ofHymnology. I trust that this little volume will be ofsome value, especially to fellow Lutheran organists andchoir directors. For further study the student is referredto John Julian’s great “Dictionary of Hymnology”and Benson’s “The English Hymn,” as well as worksby Duffield, Breed, Ninde, and others. Every organistand choir director ought to read “The Hymn as Literature”by Jeremiah Bascom Reeves.

MATTHEW N. LUNDQUIST

CONTENTS

I. THE HYMNODY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1

Religious Character (Biblical and Congregational) 1

Poetical Quality (Lyrical Beauty) 8

II. THE LUTHERAN HYMN BOOK 15

Arrangements of Hymns in the Hymnal 15

Dogmatic Method of Arrangement 15

Liturgical Method of Arrangement 15

GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HYMNS 19

III. EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNODY 19

Early Greek Hymns 20

Early Latin Hymns 22

IV. MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIAN HYMNODY 27

Mediaeval Latin Hymns 28

Mediaeval German Hymns 32

Mediaeval Scandinavian Hymnody 34

The Sequences 35

St. Gall 36

V. LUTHERAN HYMNOLOGY 39

Martin Luther 41

German Lutheran Hymnody 44

Scandinavian Lutheran Hymnody 50

American Lutheran Hymnody 54

Conclusion 61

ADDENDA

Reformed Church Song 69

A List of Hymnists 71

SECTION I
THE HYMNODY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH

The hymnody of the Lutheran Church is the bodyof sacred songs sung by the Church. These songs maybe studied in their twofold aspect; as to their religiousand as to their poetical character; they are church hymnsand also sacred poems.

(The Lutheran church hymns have been calledpsalms. According to old linguistic usage, psalm isthe same thing as sacred or religious song, not songin general. In secular Greek the word psalm doe

BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!

Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!