Musical Instruments in Biblical Israel. Haifa,Israel: Haifa Museum of Music and Ethnology, 1990/91.
Pictures and annotations on discovered Biblical imusical instuments.
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: What the Bible Says about Music. 2nd edition. Ed. by Donald Thiessen. Chicago: Cornerstone Press,1994.
Excerpts from NASB relating to music and praise. All items are selected by using NASB concordance so that it is not comprehensive one.
Adler, Israel. The Study of Jewish Music: A Bibliographic Guide. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press (The Hebrew Univ.), 1995.
A scholarly and updated bibliography with detailed annotations. A useful guide for the history of the research in Jewish music.
Flender, Reinhard. Hebrew Psalmody: A Structural Investigation. The Magnes Press,1992.
Emphases are both on oral (Ethnomusicological) and written (Maroratic) traditions.
Seidel, Hans. Musik in Altisrael: Untersuchungen zur Musikgeschichte und Musikpraxis Altisraels anhand biblischen und ausserbiblisher Texte. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1989.
Sendrey, Alfred. Music in Ancient
Israel. New York: Philosophical Library, 1969.
----.Music in the Social and Religious
Life of Antiquity.Cranbury,NJ: Associated Univ. Press,
1974.
Kleinig, John. The Lord's Song: The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.
Haik-Vantura, Suzanne. The Music of the Bible Rvealed: The Deciphering of a Millenary Notation. Berkeley, CA: BIBAL Press, 1991.
Werner, Eric. The Sacred Bridge:
The Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church during the First Millennium. New York: Columbia
Univ. Press, 1959.
-----. The Sacred Bridge. vol.2. New York: Ktav, 1984.
Idelssohn, Abraham. Jewish Music: Its
Historical Development.(1929/ Reissued from Dover,
1992)
Some detailed but older works. Useful but need to be cautious.
Shiloah, Amnon. Jewish Musical Traditions. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1992.
The Instrumental Music Issue.
Ed. by Bill Flatt. Nashville: Gospel Advocate co.,1987.
Bales, James D. Instrumantal Music and
New Testament Worship. Seacry,AR: Resource Publications,1973.
Rather technical works on the topic written from the "Restoration Movement" point of view.
Smith, W.S. Musical Aspects of the New Testament. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, 1962.
Seel, Thomas Allen. A Theology of Music for Worship derived from the Book of Revelatin. Studies in Liturgical Musicology 3. Metuchen, NJ & London: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
Less technical as a theological study, but more interesting as a liturgical study.
Shelly, Rubel. Sing His Praise! A Case for A Cappella Music as Worship Today. Nashville: 20th Century Christian, 1987.
Terrien, Samuel. The Magnificat: Musicians as Biblical Interpreters. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995.
Robert J. Karris. A Symphony of New Testament Hymns. The Liturgical Press,1996.
A recent NT hymnological study with special reference to selected 7 passages. Written not from a musicological , but from a biblical theology point of view.
Delling, Gerhard. Worship in the
New Tetament. Philadelphia: Westminster,1962.
Hahn, Ferdinand. The Worship of the
Early Chrch. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1973.
Martin, R.P. Worship in the Early Church. 2nd edition. Eerdmans, 1975.
Martin, R.P. CARMEN CHRISTI: Philippians
2:5-11 in Recent Interpretation and the setting of early Christian Worship. Revised edition. Eerdmans, 1983.
Sanders, J.T. New Testament Christological
Hymns: Thier Historical and Religious Background.
Cambridge, 1971.
Deichgraber, R. Gotteshymnus und Christushymnus
in der fruehen Christenheit. Goettingen, 1967.
Lattke, Michael. HYMNUS: Materialien zu einer Geschichte der antiken Hymnologie. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 19. Gottingen: V & R, 1991.
The Making of Jewish and Chirstian Worship. Ed. by Bradshaw & Hoffman. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Univ. Press,
1991.
Bradshaw, Paul. The Search for the Origins
of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
Dix, G.D. The Shape of the Liturgy. London, 1945.
An older, but still usefull work. Needs to be read with Bradshaw mentioned above.
Bradshaw, Paul. Ordination Rites
of the Ancient Churches of East and West.(1990)
Taft, Robert. The Liturgy of the Hours
in East and West. (1986)
Talley, Thomas. The Origins of the Liturgical
Year. 2nd edition. (1991)
Kavanagh, Aidan. Confirmation: Origins
and Reform. (1988)
Definitive works in specific fields of liturgicla history.
Vogel, Cyrille. Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction. Washington: The Pastoral Press, 1986.
Harper, John. The Form and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century: A Historical Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
An intorduction to early and medieval music history, with strength in cultural and aethetic matters. Highly recommended.
The Early Middle Ages to 1300.
2nd edition. NOHM, vol.2. Oxford Univ. Press, 1990.
Cattin, Giulio. Music of the Middle
Ages <I>. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1985.
Reese, Gustave. Music in the Middle
Ages. New York: Norton, 1940.
Hoppin, Richard. Medieval Music. Norton, 1978.
Yudkin, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.
Some useful text book for church music students.
Quasten, Johannes. Music & Worship in Pagan & Christian Antiquity. Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, 1983.
Foley, Edward. Foundations of Christian
Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity.
Nottingham: Grove Books, 1993. (Btritish edition)
Edward Foley. Foundations of Christian
Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity.
The Liturgical Press, 1996. (American edition)
Leeb, Helmuth. Die Psalmodie bei Ambrosius. Wien: Verlag Herder, 1967.
Highly focused and technical treatment on the topic.
Jeffrey, Peter. Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1992.
Very interesting but cotroversial book. With a huge bibliography section.
----. Prophecy Mixed with Melody: From Early Christian Psalmody to Grogorian Chant. Forthcoming.
McKinnon, James. The Temple, the Church Fathers, and Early Western Chant. (Collected Studies, Cs 606.) Ashgate Pub Co, Forthcoming.
Due in May 1998.
Hilley, David. Western Plainchant: A Handbook. Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
Levy, Kenneth. Gregorian Chant and the Carolignians. Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
The most recent scholarly work on the early stage of Gregorian chant.
Margot Fassler. Gothic Song: Victorine
Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris.Cambridge
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Cambridge Univ.Press,1993.
Craig M. Wright. Music and Ceremony
at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550. Cambridge Studies
in Music. Cambridge Univ. Press,1990.
Detailed specific studies with solid scholarship and methodology.
Music in the Medieval English Liturgy. Plainsong & Medieval Music Society Centennial Essays. Ed.by Susan Rankin & David Hiley. Oxford Univ. Press,1993.
Essays by several leading scholars in this field.
Tersa Berger. Theology in Hymns? A Study of the Relationship of Doxology and Theology according to A COLLECTION OF HYMNS FOR THE USE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED METHODISTS (1780). Nashville,TN: Kingwood Books, an Imprint of Abingdon Press,1995.
Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian. Ed. by S.T.Kimbrough,Jr. Kinwood Books,1992.
Useful titles on Wesleyan Hymnology.
White, James. Christian Worship in North America. A Retrospective: 1955-1995. Pueblo Book (The Liturgical Press), 1997.
Articles published during the period in the title by a prominent figure in the history of Protestant worship. Includes 24 articles on both Protestant and Catholic worthip mainly in the U.S.
Butt, John. Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
Covers the period during Luther and Bach with special emphases on Lutheran music education systems and performance practice.
Enchiridion Geistliker Leder Unde Psalmen, Magdeburg 1536
/Introductory Study and Facsimile
Edition. Emory Texts and Studies in Ecclesial Life,
No 2. Ed.by Stephen A. Crist. Scholars Press,1994.
Robin Leaver. Elisabeth Creutziger:
The Magdeburg Enchiridion 1536 and Reformation Theology.
[The Kessler Reformation Lecture, Pitts Theology Library, October 18, 1994].
Occasional Publications of the Pitts Theology Library. Atlanta: Pitts Theology
Library,1995.
Robert L. Marshall. Luther, Bach, and
the Early Reformation Chorale. [The Kessler Reformation
Lecture, Pitts Theology Library, October 17, 1995]. Occasional Publications
of the Pitts Theology Library. Atlanta: Pitts Theology Library,1995.
Interesting booklets on early Protestant hymnology.
White, James. Protestant Worship:
Traditions in Transition. Loisville: Westminster/
John Knox, 1989.
-----. Roman Catholic Worship: Trent
to Today. New York and Mahwah,NJ: Paulist Press,1995.
Blume, Friedrich, et al. Protestant Church Music: A History. New York: Norton,1974.
Stevenson, Robert. Patterns of Protestant Church Music. Duke Uni. Press, 1953 .
Leaver, Robin. "Goostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songes": English and Dutch Metrical Psalms from Coverdale to Utenhove, 1535-1566. Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.
Patrice Veit. Das Kirchenlied in der Reformation Martin Luthers: Eine thematische und semantische Untersuchung. Stuttgart: Steiner Varlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986.
Blankenburg, Walter. Johann Walter: Leben und Werk aus dem Nachschla�� herausgeben von Friedhelm Brusniak. Tutzing: Verlegt Hans Schneider, 1991.
Old, Hughs Oliphant. The Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1975.
Temperly, Nicholas. The Music of
the English Parish Church. Cambridge Univ. Press,
1979. 2 vols.
Fellowes, Edmund & J.A. Westrup. English
Cathedral Music. London: Methuen, 1969.
The former deals with the "parish hymnological " aspect of English church music. The latter, on the other hand, "cathedral polyphonic" aspect. The former is a definitive work in the field.
Routley, Erik. The Musical Wesleys. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968.
Ellinwood, Leonard. The History of
American Church Music. Revised edition. 1953/
R- New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
Dean, Talmage. A Survey of Twentieth
Century Protestant Church Music in America. Nashville:
Broadman Press, 1988.
The former deals with American church music history up to the mid of 20th century, and the latter 20th century general. The latter is useful to get knowledge of current Aemrican church music scene with its historical settings.
Routley, Erik. Twentieth Century Church Music. 1964/ R- Carol Stream, IL: Agape, 1984.
A history of church music excluding hymnology by a prominent figure in English (British and American) church music.