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Winfred Douglas; revised by Leonard Ellinwood.
Church Music in History and Practice: The Hale Memorial Lectures of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
Published London: Faber & Faber, 1963 (original edition published in 1937).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: John Dickens & Co., Northampton.
Size: 142×220×15mm.
Page count: xxii,266pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rather worn and yellowed with age, some rubs and frays at its edges and corners, price-clipped on its front flyleaf; boards & spine have a little wear at the edges and corners, page edges a bit dusty; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.50
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Weight without packaging: 604g.

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No overall medieval emphasis. Contents: Foundation principles of church music; Music of the eucharist before polyphony — from rise of polyphony to the present; Music of the office before the Reformation — Gregorian psalmody; Office music since the Reformation; Pre-Reformation liturgical hymn; Anglican eclectic hymnody — later pre-Reformation sources — post-Reformation sources; 19th‑c. reform; Praise of God today.
Appendices: cross-reference with the Protestant Episcopal Church Hymnal 1940.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Index: yes

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