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Contents preface xi 1. Prelude: Honor Father and Mother 1 2. The Song of the Church in the New Testament 13 3. The Church in a Pagan World 29 4. Clement of Alexandria: Musical Cosmology and Composed Manners 42 5. Tertullian: Pagan Spectacles and Christian Households 60 6. Expansion and Persecution, Triumph and Troubles 76 7. St. Ambrose: Administrator and Mystic 92 8. St. John Chrysostom: Christian Households amid the Devil's Garbage Heap 109 9. Rejection: The Music of a Pagan World 131 10. Affirmation: Psalms and Hymns 149 11. St. Augustine: The Problems of Rhetoric and Disordered Loves 180 ix 9 Stapert first page proofs Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:01:53 PM 12. Postlude: What Can the Early Christians Teach Us about Music? 194 appendix i: Early Christian Hymns in Devotional Context 210 appendix ii: The World of Early Christianity 215 appendix iii: Timeline 215
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Public worship.
Bible. O.T. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.