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Wiser Than Despair: The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church Quentin Faulkner
Wiser Than Despair: The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church
Quentin Faulkner
This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis.
272 pages, bibliography, index