A Stable-Lamp is Lighted : a Sung Prayer of the Christian Tradition.

By:

Pierce, Robert B

Material type: Text

TextSeries: History of Christian hymnodyPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (53 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773417236
0773417230

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

264.23 264/.23

LOC classification:

ML3186 .P47 2010

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Contents:

A STABLE-LAMP IS LIGHTED: A Sung Prayer of the Christian Tradition; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Poemweb Page; Chapter 1: Music; Chapter 2: Biography; Chapter 3: Hymnody; Chapter 4: Performance; Chapter 5: Sound and Form; Chapter 6: Biblical Sources; Chapter 7: Language and Imagery; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Richard Wilbur?s lyric?A Stable-Lamp is Lighted,? originally written to be sung chorally at a candlelight service at Wesleyan University in 1958, is both a much admired poem sung by church choirs in Advent and Christmas concerts and a successful hymn text. Wilbur?s text combines the attributes of a text for congregational and choral singing with those of a Modernist poem.

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Richard Wilbur?s lyric?A Stable-Lamp is Lighted,? originally written to be sung chorally at a candlelight service at Wesleyan University in 1958, is both a much admired poem sung by church choirs in Advent and Christmas concerts and a successful hymn text. Wilbur?s text combines the attributes of a text for congregational and choral singing with those of a Modernist poem.