Music in Early Christian Literature

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The New Testament
• 2. The Christian literature of the first and second centuries
• 3. The Greek authors of the third century
• 4. The western authors of the third and early fourth centuries
• 5. Fourth-century Alexandria and desert monasticism
• 6. Fourth-century Asia Minor: the Cappadocians
• 7. Palestine, Antioch and Syria
• 8. The Greek historians
• 9. The Apostolic Constitutions, Egeria, and the eastern councils
• 10. Western authors of the fourth and early fifth centuries
• 11. Augustine and minor western authors
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index of musical and liturgical terms and concepts.