A New Song for an Old World Musical Thought in the Early Church - Stapert, Calvin 1942- (Grand Rapids (Mich.): Eerdmans, 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.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Church music; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music -- Religious aspects&delete& -- Christianity; Public worship