This collection of essays explores the interrelationship of music and theology in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book examines the role of music in the diverse religious life of a century that encompassed the Oxford Movement, Catholic Emancipation, religious revivals involving many different denominations, the production of several landmark hymnals and greater legal recognition for religions other than Christianity. The book therefore provides a valuable guide to the music of this complex historical period.

Dr Martin Clarke is a part-time lecturer at Durham University, UK.

Introduction, Martin V. Clarke; Chapter 1 The Theology of the Victorian Hymn Tune, Ian Bradley; Chapter 2 'Meet and Right it is to Sing': Nineteenth-Century Hymnals and the Reasons for Singing, Martin V. Clarke; Chapter 3 Sacred Sound for a Holy Space: Dogma, Worship and Music at Solemn Mass during the Victorian Era, 1829-1903, T.E. Muir; Chapter 4 'Thy Love ... Hath Broken Every Barrier Down': The Rhetoric of Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century British and American Women's Hymns, C. Michael Hawn, June Hadden Hobbs; Chapter 5 Christianity, Civilization and Music: Nineteenth-Century British Missionaries and the Control of Malagasy Hymnology, Charles Edward McGuire; Chapter 6 'Sing a Sankey': The Rise of Gospel Hymnody in Great Britain, Mel R. Wilhoit; Chapter 7 'Singin' in the Reign': Voice, Faith and the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905, James Deaville, Katherine Stopa; Chapter 8 Beyond the Psalms: The Metamorphosis of the Anthem Text during the Nineteenth Century, Peter Horton; Chapter 9 From Elijah (1846) to The Kingdom (1906): Music and Scripture Interacting in the Nineteenth-Century English Oratorio, David Brown; Chapter 10, Jeremy S. Begbie; Chapter 11 'Spiritual' Selection: Joseph Goddard and the Music Theology of Evolution, Bennett Zon;