PART III: Practical Hymnology. _Chapters_: The Study of Hymns. The

Practical Use of Hymns. The Selection of: Hymns. The Announcement and Treatment of Hymns. Epilogue.

The study is pre-eminently thorough both in literary analysis and in historical research. The altogether practical treatment illuminates the whole field of hymnology and its values.

THE SINGING CHURCH _The Hymns It Wrote and Sang_ By EDMUND S. LORENZ

This book merits the careful study of the minister, the choir master, the organist, and others who wish to vitalize public and private worship by an intelligent use of our Christian hymnody.

The book is at once scholarly and practical. No other treats so informatively and yet so interestingly:—

(1) The religious and musical heritage of the hymn writers in the Greek, the Latin, the German, the English, and the American epochs;

(2) The outstanding personalities who made valuable and permanent hymnological contributions in those epochs;

(3) The occasions and emotional crises out of which many great hymns were born;

(4) The critical standards by which hymns may be adjudged great.

No less important is the closing section of this impressive study, _Practical Hymnology_. Here Dr. Lorenz discusses the ways and means of utilizing the hymn in achieving a new awareness of the presence of God.

Edmund S. Lorenz, LL.D., Mus.Doc., became interested in church music very early in life, and helped himself through the years of his academic and seminary training (at Otterbein University, the United Brethren Seminary, and Yale Divinity School) by writing gospel songs and editing various songbooks. After two years in the ministry and a year as president of Lebanon Valley College, where at the beginning of the second year overwork brought on a complete collapse, he turned again to music. In 1890, he began the business known as Lorenz Publishing Company.

Dr. Lorenz has had many years of experience as editor of Sunday-school Songbooks, church hymnals, and choir magazines. This experience and his years of close contact with the work of the Church have given him a peculiar qualification for the writing of services, choir cantatas, sheet music solos, organ compositions, and songbooks. He has written many books, such as _Practical Church Music_, _Church Music—What a Minister Should Know about It_, _Music in Work and Worship_, _Practical Hymn Studies_. At home and abroad, he has been in wide demand as a lecturer on church music.

COKESBURY PRESS NASHVILLE TENNESSEE _Publishers of Cokesbury Good Books_

Transcriber’s Notes

--Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

--Silently corrected a few palpable typos.

--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.

--Collated Table of Contents against headings in the text; removed the reference to the (nonexistant) Chapter XV section VI and renumbered subsequent sections.