Contents:
Introduction - The Power of Music
Part 1 - The Birth of Christian Music
1. Music in the Old Testament
2. From Synagogue to Early Christian Church
3. The Western Middle Ages
4. The Monastic Tradition
5. Music of the Spheres - The Medieval World-View
6. Music for the Liturgy
7. From the Ear to the Page
8. From Gregorian Chant to Polyphony
9. Wycliffe's Challenge to the Church
Part 2 - Renaissance and Reformation
10. Luther and the Reformation
11. The Swiss Reformers - The Calvinist Tradition
12. The Reformation in England
13. The Chapel Royal and Cathedral Music
14. Catholic Reform
Part 3 - The Flowering of Christian Music
15. Italian Splendor
16. The Music of the Lutheran Church
17. Heinrich Schutz
18. J. S. Bach
19. Turmoil in England - Commonwealth and Restoration
20. Congregational Music
21. Wales - Land of Song
Part 4 - The Path Divides
22. Music in the Courts of Europe
23. The Romantic Movement
24. The Decline of the Lutheran Chorale
25. The Church of England and the Tractarians
26. Revival in the Nineteenth Century
Part 5 - Eastern Traditions
27. The Orthodox Churches
28. The Greek Orthodox Church
29. The Russian Orthodox Church
30. The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches
31. Christianity, East and West - Worlds Apart?
Part 6 - The African Genius
32. Africa and the Influence of Western Music
33. The Independent Churches
Part 7 - Music in North America
34. Christianity Comes to the New World
35. Africans in America
36. Gospel Music - White and Black
37. The United States and the European Classical Tradition
Part 8 - Latin America and Australasia
38. Latin America
39. Christian Music in Australasia
Part 9 - Music in Twentieth-Century Europe
40. Roman Catholic Music in Europe
41. The Bible in the Concert Hall
42. Vatican II and the Liturgy
43. Lutheran Musical Revival
44. Music in Britain
45. The Popular Stream
46. Good and Bad
Appendix - Organ Music

Includes bibliographical index