Practical Hymnology
New York: AMS Press, 1975.
Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #14440
ISBN: 0404099122
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, protector remnants glued to paste-downs, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1921 Boston: Richard G Badger, The Gorham Press edition. "Poteat's Practical Hymnology contains three chapters. The first is a historical survey based, as he acknowledges, on Benson's The English Hymn, and emphasizing Baptist contributions. Chapter 2, "The Cheap Hymn", attacks commercialism, the imitation of popular music, the lack of textual coherences, the "jog-trot" rhythms and unrelated refrains, and the lack of craft in text and music. He calls for good music, cultivation of understanding, and exposure to hymnody of high quality in his third chapter, and appends a list of "Three Hundred Good Hymns." - David W. Music, Paul Akers Richardson; I Will Sing the Wondrous Story : A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America, 2008, page 421. "I shall be sorry if certain opinions expressed in the following pages appear to any reader to be harsh; but I shall comfort myself with the reflection that every word was written in an earnest endeavor to check what I believe to be a real evil and to promote a deeper interest in the true worship of God." - Preface. ; Ex-Library; 130 pages.
Price: $29.95