Sacred Sound & Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish & Christian Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780268017460)

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.

Author: Lawrence a. Hoffman
ISBN-10: 0268017468
ISBN-13: 9780268017460
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Language: English
Published: 05/09/1994
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.77d

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.