Music in the History of the Western Church
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Music in the History of the Western Church, by Edward Dickinson, has an introduction on religious music among primitive and ancient peoples. The preface identifies the practical administration of music in public worship as one of the secondary problems faced by the Christian Church. The discussion describes instrumental music as an accompaniment to poetry, bound to symbolic dance and subordinated to formal social observances.
The account says that the earliest reasoning about musical effects assumed a purpose of conveying exact ideas or at least expressing definite emotion. The discussion of César Franck describes a musician overlooked or disdained for the greater part of his life by everyone except a devoted band of disciples.
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- Edward Dickinson
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- 220
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