Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Rochester, 1970. / Photocopy of ms. Vita. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3483

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Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster. / Includes bibliographical references (p. iv-xiii).

Thesis (M.M.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1973. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-306).

This dissertation examines the hymns of Particular Baptist hymn-writer, Anne Steele, as found in John Rippon's hymnal, A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors, including a Great Number of Originals; Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns, first published in 1787. Through his Selection of Hymns, John Rippon disseminated the hymns of the golden age of Baptist and evangelical hymnody. By engaging in a theological analysis of the fifty-two hymns and Psalm paraphrases of Anne Steele included in the various editions of Rippon's phenomenally successful hymnal, this dissertation argues that Steele played a significant theological and spiritual role in British Baptist faith and life from the 1780s to the 1830s. Anne Steele's hymnody as mediated through Rippon's Selection of Hymns nurtured through song the revival in the English Particular Baptist community that occurred in the closing decades of the eighteenth century and continued through the first decades of the nineteenth century. Rippon's Selection of Hymns, a central vehicle of sung theology and piety in the Baptist context, especially within the revival and expansion of Particular Baptist faith and piety from the 1780s to the 1830s, met specific theological, pastoral, and devotional needs among the British Baptist community. Steele's inclusion in the Selection of Hymns was a key part of this influence and its impact on the person in the pew. Chapter 1 introduces the English Hymn and considers recent scholarship on Anne Steele and John Rippon's Selection of Hymns. Chapter 2 offers a biographical sketch of Steele. Chapter 3 examines the cultural and religious setting of both Anne Steele's hymns and Rippon's popular and successful hymnal. Chapter 4 considers Anne Steele's approach to her craft as a hymn-writer. Chapter 5 examines the fifty two hymns of Steele found in Rippon's hymnal, especially as they demonstrate the theology of the Second London Confession and illustrate the characteristics of Evangelicalism. Chapter 6 summarizes the picture of Steele that emerges from a consideration of her hymns in Rippon's hymnal and considers her influence on the revival of the Particular Baptist community.

Wondrous Love (public domain) is an old American hymn tune that I have known for a long time, and I have used it as the primary source material for my Chamber Symphony, trying throughout the piece to vary the texture and mood of the music. The piece opens with a sort of static texture, which gives way to a section where veiled references to the hymn tune become gradually more apparent. This veiled section almost dies away when the next section begins with a clear woodwind choir announcement of the first part of Wondrous Love. This short section, which is primarily transitional in nature, then moves through the strings, brass, and other instruments to effect a modulation into the next section. The next section is the first full announcement of the Wondrous Love hymn tune. While the music itself does not really change for the next two iterations of the tune in the section, the instrumentation is varied, and there is a modulation. This rather transparent music then dies away to a single note in the violins; this serves as a transition into a dreamlike section. This dreamlike music ends rather suddenly with an explosive tutti moment of which augmentation and open sonorities are the most salient features. The piece then comes to a close shortly thereafter with music that gradually dies away. / text

Diss.--Helsinki. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted.

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