Peter Mercer-Taylor is Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota. His teaching and scholarship have been divided between the nineteenth-century classical tradition--Felix Mendelssohn in particular--and contemporary popular music. Mercer-Taylor's articles have appeared in a range of journals, including 19th-Century Music, Popular Music, Musical Quarterly, The Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, and Music Theory Spectrum.

The text presents a lens into church hymnody that has been untapped by church music scholars in the past. This is a text to be read by students, directors, and those with a love and passion for hymnody.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Antebellum Psalmody in its Cultural ContextChapter 2: An Immigrant's Musical Memoir: Clifton's 1819 Original Collection and the Modest Launch of a TraditionChapter 3: Institutional Certification: Mason's 1822 Handel and Haydn Society Collection and the First WaveChapter 4: Heyday: Kingsley's 1838 Sacred Choir and the Midcentury ManiaChapter 5: Psalmodic Adaptation as Musical TranslationEpilogue Appendix 1: Classical Music in Antebellum American Psalmody: The RepertoireAppendix 2: The Repertoire by ComposerNotesWorks CitedIndex

Peter Mercer-Taylor is Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota. His teaching and scholarship have been divided between the nineteenth-century classical tradition--Felix Mendelssohn in particular--and contemporary popular music. Mercer-Taylor's articles have appeared in a range of journals, including 19th-Century Music, Popular Music, Musical Quarterly, The Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, and Music Theory Spectrum.

The text presents a lens into church hymnody that has been untapped by church music scholars in the past. This is a text to be read by students, directors, and those with a love and passion for hymnody.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Antebellum Psalmody in its Cultural ContextChapter 2: An Immigrant's Musical Memoir: Clifton's 1819 Original Collection and the Modest Launch of a TraditionChapter 3: Institutional Certification: Mason's 1822 Handel and Haydn Society Collection and the First WaveChapter 4: Heyday: Kingsley's 1838 Sacred Choir and the Midcentury ManiaChapter 5: Psalmodic Adaptation as Musical TranslationEpilogue Appendix 1: Classical Music in Antebellum American Psalmody: The RepertoireAppendix 2: The Repertoire by ComposerNotesWorks CitedIndex

Peter Mercer-Taylor is Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota. His teaching and scholarship have been divided between the nineteenth-century classical tradition--Felix Mendelssohn in particular--and contemporary popular music. Mercer-Taylor's articles have appeared in a range of journals, including 19th-Century Music, Popular Music, Musical Quarterly, The Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, and Music Theory Spectrum.

The text presents a lens into church hymnody that has been untapped by church music scholars in the past. This is a text to be read by students, directors, and those with a love and passion for hymnody.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Antebellum Psalmody in its Cultural ContextChapter 2: An Immigrant's Musical Memoir: Clifton's 1819 Original Collection and the Modest Launch of a TraditionChapter 3: Institutional Certification: Mason's 1822 Handel and Haydn Society Collection and the First WaveChapter 4: Heyday: Kingsley's 1838 Sacred Choir and the Midcentury ManiaChapter 5: Psalmodic Adaptation as Musical TranslationEpilogue Appendix 1: Classical Music in Antebellum American Psalmody: The RepertoireAppendix 2: The Repertoire by ComposerNotesWorks CitedIndex