Music In Traditional Churches During The Modern Era

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Through much of the nineteenth century, worship in liturgical churches followed largely low-church convictions. In the mid-nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, many of these churches began recovering ancient patterns of worship. In music, this meant the recovery of Gregorian chant in the Catholic church, the return of Lutherans to sixteenth-century liturgy forms, a movement in some Anglican churches away from a Puritan-influenced worship to the recovery of catholic forms,...

 

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