L'étude de la musique à l'église au XIXe siècle est une thématique de recherche en plein essor. Depuis quinze ans, lesrecherches menées ont permis d'appréhender ce large sujet et d'ouvrir les perspectives de recherche qui en découlent,mais une part de cette thématique reste encore à explorer. En effet, le mouvement de restauration de la musique d'égliseest à ce jour peu abordé de façon singulière.Notre objectif étant de mettre en évidence l'étendue du champ de recherche, musicologique et pluridisciplinaire liée àl'étude de ce mouvement, Félix Clément est apparu être une entrée appropriée. Bien que n'étant pas chef de file, Clémentsemblait s'engager dans toutes les voies qui s'ouvraient à lui pour aborder et développer la question de la restauration dela musique à l'église.Dépassant le domaine du religieux, Clément fait montre, dans son travail de restaurateur du chant liturgique et selon sesdifférentes approches, d'une réelle acuité d'esprit et prend bien en considération toute la complexité d'une telleentreprise. Surtout, il permet d'intégrer le mouvement auquel il appartient dans le flux historiographique, sociétal,politique et cultuel et d'en révéler toute la profondeur. li ouvre la voie de plusieurs axes de recherches liés à l'étude de larestauration du chant liturgique de sorte qu'un vaste paysage du mouvement se dépeint au seul regard de ses activités.Notre étude s'applique à replacer les démarches de Clément dans leur contexte afin d'en dégager le rapport àl'environnement politique et cultuel et de définir l'importance et les retombées de ses travaux. / 19th century church music is a research area that is greatly expanding. The last 15 years of research has Iead to a better understanding of this expansive subject, but much remains to be examined. ln particular, the 19th century French Church Music Restoration Movement has yet to be studied in its own right.Our goal was to demonstrate the breath of the musicological and multidisciplinary research opportunities related to this movement, and Félix Clément emerged as an ideal starting point. Although he was nota principle leader, he was involve in ail areas of the Church Music Restoration Movement that were open to him. Beyond the field of religion, Clément revealed a real insight, through his work as a Iiturgical chant restorer and his different methodological approaches, and understood the entire complexity of the field. Above all else, his experience allows for a deeper understanding of the societal, political, religious and historiographical currents involved in this kind of work. His work opens the door to many research possibilities relating to the study of the restoration of Iiturgical chant in such a way that an entire field is revealed by looking at his activities. Our study attempts to place the work of Clément in their context in order to extract the political and religious relationship and to define the importance and Iegacy of his work.

Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was a seventeenth-century preacher and hymn writer. He is considered responsible for the introduction and continued use of hymns, as distinct from psalms and paraphrases, in the English Nonconformist churches in the late seventeenth century, and is remembered as the provider of a well-rounded body of hymns for congregational worship. This thesis reviews the historical climate of seventeenth-century England, and discusses Keach's life in terms of that background. Keach's influence on congregational hymn singing, hymn writers, preaching, and education is also examined. Keach's writings and contributions to hymn singing are little known today. This thesis points out the significance of these writings and hymns to seventeenth-century religious life.

Dom Stephen Moreno OSB (1889-1953) was one of Australia’s most respected and prolific composers of church music in the early twentieth century. He lived for almost fifty years in the Benedictine Community at New Norcia, WA, and composed 210 works, comprising over 1100 individual compositions and over 200 accompaniments to Gregorian chant. The majority of his output was in liturgical sacred music, including Masses, motets and Litanies, but it also included a significant quantity of secular vocal and instrumental music. Much of Moreno’s music was written for the Benedictine Community of New Norcia but he also composed liturgical music for the broader Australian church and secular music for the wider Australian community. Less than a quarter of Moreno’s music was published, and the vast majority of his output survives in manuscript at New Norcia. The purpose of the present study is to define the extent of Moreno’s output, to establish its chronology, and to examine the contexts and purposes for which he composed. This study has significantly added to and revised the findings of previous studies of Moreno’s music undertaken by Ros (1980) and Revell (1990) and supplies a revised biography. Approximately thirty-five percent of the works included in this study are identified and discussed here for the first time. Of the previously known works, Ros specifically dated less than one quarter and the present study refutes some seventy-four percent of Revell’s dates. Through the investigation of important primary sources, including the composer’s surviving correspondence and the Chronicle of the Benedictine Community, this study provides for the first time a complete chronology and contextual account of Moreno’s entire oeuvre. This has involved the cataloguing and indexing of over ten thousand pages of Moreno’s manuscripts and more than five thousand pages of his personal correspondence. This study has also identified a number of compositions unique to collections outside of New Norcia. While the primary purpose of this study has been to establish an accurate chronology and historical context for each work, the opportunity has also been taken to provide a preliminary assessment and discussion of Moreno’s musical style and compositional methods. Note: “Due to the inclusion of third party copyrighted material we are unable to mount the entire thesis. It can however be viewed at St Patrick’s Campus Library by prior arrangement.”

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002. / Title from electronic submission form. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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This study examines the relationship between the first major religious revival in the New England colonies and the change from psalmody to hymnody in the mid-eighteenth century through an approach which integrates the two fields of theology and church music. The termination date is 1770, and the focus is Protestant congregational song in the three groups most influenced by Puritan thought: the Congregationalists, the Presbyterians, and the Baptists.While much has been written separately about the change in eighteenth-century sacred song and the Great Awakening itself, there has been little research that attempts to place the psalmody/hymnody issue within the larger context of the changing theological milieu. This study first examines the theological and ecclesiastical structures which provided the context for Reformed worship, and then explores how fundamental changes in those structures and thought systems impacted congregational song. In order to comprehend the major changes which occurred in the mid-eighteenth century in colonial America, chapters on the Reformed Church and the beginning and spread of psalmody, the New England colonies to 1700, and the beginning of English hymnody are included.Conclusions1. The primary conclusion of this study is that the Great Awakening is the single most important factor in the change from psalmody to hymnody in the New England colonies. It is not a peripheral factor as indicated in much of the research. Rather, it provides both the rationale and the means for the transition in church song. The Great Awakening represented a basic theological change from a theocentric to an anthropocentric viewpoint that subsequently required alterations in sacred song. The revival movement, through its evangelistic spirit, also provided the vehicle by which this change in psalmody was effected.2. The agitation of the 1720s as evidenced in the tracts and treatises did not affect the transition directly. However, it is indicative of the increasing discontent with traditional Calvinist theology.3. The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts were not a primary reason for the change, but met the needs of the new anthropocentric theology of the Great Awakening that required a new language of praise. / School of Music

Thesis (MMu)--Australian Catholic University, School of Music, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-156). Also available in an electronic format via the internet.

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-195).

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-76).

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-195).