Studies in the Hymnody of Isaac Watts
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51994-7 (ISBN)
The hymns of Isaac Watts are a remarkable blend of biblical, theological, liturgical, poetic, musical, and practical dimensions, some of which have seldom been touched upon in previous studies of the hymn writer. In this book, you will find analyses of Watts’s texts from each of these perspectives. As shown by this study, it is not only these individual factors but their combination that made Watts’s hymns innovative but also effective and long lasting in his own time—and that makes many of them still useful and widely sung today.
David W. Music, D.M.A. (1977), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is Professor Emeritus of Church Music at Baylor University. His most recent book, co-authored with Scotty Gray, is A Noble Theme, a Skillful Writer: Timothy Dudley-Smith and Christian Hymnody (Hope, 2021).
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 This Book
2Sources, Definitions, and Orthography
3Biography and Hymn Publications
4Early Life and Education
5English Congregational Song before Watts
6The Beginning of Watts’s Hymn Writing
6.1Horæ Lyricæ
6.2Hymns and Spiritual Songs
6.3Divine Songs
6.4The Psalms of David Imitated
7Final Years
1 The Bible and the Hymns of Watts
1The Relationship between Hymns and the Bible
1.1Hymns and Spiritual Songs
1.2The Psalms of David Imitated
2Watts’s Use of the Bible
2 The Theology of Watts’s Hymns
1Holy Scripture
2God and the Holy Trinity
3God’s Eternal Decree
4Creation and Providence
5Fall of Humanity, Sin, and Punishment
6God’s Covenant with Humanity through Christ the Mediator
7Free Will and the Calling of God
8Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and Saving Faith
9Repentance
10 Good Works
11 Perseverance of the Saints
12 Assurance of Salvation
13 The Law of God
14 The Gospel and Grace
15 Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
16 Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
17 The Civil Magistrate
18 The Church
19 The Communion of Saints
20 The Sacraments: Baptism and Lord’s Supper
21 The Soul after Death, the Resurrection, and the Last Judgment
22 Additional Topics
23 General Theological Perspectives
3 Watts’s Hymns and Liturgy
1Worship at Bury Street Church
2The Liturgical Functions of Hymns
3The Sermon Hymn
4The Lord’s Supper and Baptism
5Hymns for Other Aspects of Worship
6Liturgical Texts
7Public and Private Worship
8The Liturgical Use of Watts’s Hymns
4 The Literary Dimension of Watts’s Hymns
1The Functional Nature of Watts’s Writing
2Hymnic Meter
3Poetic Meter
4Rhyme
5Poetic Devices
5.1Comparison
5.2Contrast
5.3Substitution
5.4Hyperbole
5.5Personification and Apostrophe
5.6Arrangement of Words
5.7Emphasis
5.8“Color” Devices
5.9Figures of Sound
5.10 Isocolon
5.11 The “Sound” of Watts’s Hymns
6Form
7Watts’s Borrowings
8Textual Revision
9Watts and the Poetry of the Hymn
5 Watts’s Hymns and Music
1Hymnic Meters and Psalm Tunes
2Watts and the Singing of Hymns
2.1Lining Out
2.2Tempo and the Length of Singing
3Early Publications of Watts’s Hymns with Music
3.1Tune Supplements
3.2Tune Books
4Watts and the Music of Hymnody
6 An Analysis of Four Hymns from Hymns and Spiritual Songs
1“Infinite Grief! Amazing Woe!”
2“God of the Morning, at Whose Voice”
3How Are Thy Glories Here Display’d
4Lo, What a Glorious Sight Appears
7 An Analysis of Four Hymns from The Psalms of David Imitated
1“I Lift My Soul to God”
2“Great God, the Heaven’s Well-Order’d Frame”
3Deep in Our Hearts Let Us Record
4How Pleas’d and Blest Was I
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Religion and the Arts ; 18 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 627 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-51994-7 / 9004519947 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-51994-7 / 9789004519947 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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