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Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience (Two Liturgical Traditions #3) (Hardcover)

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By Lawrence a. Hoffman (Editor), Janet R. Walton (Editor)
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Description


Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its growth up to the Protestant Reformation, as well as post-Reformation development. Other essays explore liturgical music in contemporary North America by analyzing it against the backdrop of the continuous social change that characterizes our era.

About the Author


Lawrence A. Hoffman is Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual and director of the Synagogue 2000 Initiative for synagogue spirituality, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York.Janet Walton is professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780268017453
ISBN-10: 026801745X
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication Date: July 31st, 1992
Pages: 360
Language: English
Series: Two Liturgical Traditions