Singing and the Imagination of Devotion: Vocal Aesthetics in Early English Protestantism (Studies in Christian History and Thought) - Tapa dura

Singing and the Imagination of Devotion examines a common activity-singing-which is often taken for granted. This study reveals a previously unexplored source of aesthetic theory for anyone interested in music, worship, and the interface of Christianity and the arts: Anglican and English Puritan divines who wrote prolifically on the subject of singing, and asked probing questions about its deeper significance upon the 'landscape of the soul' and Christian community. 'A masterful exploration of the theology, psychology and spirituality of sacred song in the 17th Century', J.I. Packer

Susan Brown (Ph.D. in musicology) is a musicologist and serves on the Music Faculty of Fullerton College, Southern California. She has studied voice and vocal pedagogy with Ruth Dobson and piano with Margaret Saunders Ott, and has performed in choirs with the English early music specialist Andrew Parrott, Roger Wagner, the Estonian State Choir, and the Oregon Symphony. A soprano with an affinity for early music, her Ph.D. dissertation is on seventeenth-century English song.She is the recipient of the Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the William Clark Fellowship at UCLA, and the Coolidge Fellowship at Yale University for post-doctoral research. Her book, Singing and the Imagination of Devotion: Vocal Aesthetics in Early English Protestant Culture, is being published by Paternoster Press in England