Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary

by Mark Kligman, Melva Wilson Costen, David Petras

The history of Western music is intimately tied to the worship of Christians and Jews. It was the Church and synagogue that provided the context for the development of Gregorian chant, the motet, the cantana, and virtually every important theorist, composer, and performer from Ambrose to Zwingli. Worship Music provides concise information on the people, terms, places, and elements of this worship. Ecumenical in scope and cross-cultural in its perspective,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081465889X
• ISBN13: 9780814658895
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"