A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church - Stapert, Calvin, 1942- (Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
Keywords: Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church music; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Public worship; Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc