A Survey of Christian Hymnody
Abstract
PDF to Text Batch Convert Multiple Files Software-Please purchase personal license. FOR SUGGESTIONS LISTS AND PIANO TEACHING. By Polly Gibbs. (Baton Rouge: Polly Gibbs), 1961. 56 pp. (mimeographed). SUPPLEMENT I TO LISTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR PIANO TEACHING. By Polly Gibbs. (Baton Rouge: Polly Gibbs), 1961. 26 pp. (mimeographed). Piano teachers will be interested in the list of teaching materials prepared by Polly Gibbs. Miss Gibbs has long been an active member of MENC committees on class piano instruction and more recently has acted as chairman of the piano division in MTNA. We suspect that As a textbook for courses in hymnody offered in colleges and seminaries, this work has several things to recommend it. Perhaps its most outstanding feature is the inclusion within the text of 160 hymns which were selected for illustrative purposes of the contents. The author approaches his subject from a historical point of view. As a matter of fact, the contents underline forcefully his belief that to understand hymns adequately, it is imperative that one be fully aware of the broad scope of hymn literature together with the changing attitudes toward that literature and that he be conversant with the major trends in religious