TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stapert,Calvin R.
TI  - A new song for an old world: musical thought in the early church 
SN  - 0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BV290 .S82
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Publishing. Co.
KW  - Bible
KW  - Psalms
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Music
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Public worship
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index; Prelude: honor father and mother -- The song of the church in the New Testament -- The church in a pagan society -- Clement of Alexandria : musical cosmology and composed manners -- Tertullian : pagan spectacles and Christian households -- Expansion and persecution, triumph and trouble -- St. Ambrose : administrator and mystic -- St. John Chrysostom : Christian households amid the devil's garbage heap -- Rejection : the music of a pagan world -- Affirmation : Psalms and hymns -- St. Augustine : the problems of eloquence and inordinate love
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006028677.html
ER  -