Gems of Exquisite Beauty —— How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America

----- 瑰丽的宝石：赞美诗如何将古典音乐带到美国

ISBN: 9780190842796 出版年：2020 页码：399 Mercer-Taylor, Peter Oxford University Press

In the antebellum period, most Americans first encountered European classical music through hundreds of hymn tunes that tapped into classical melodies. This book is the first in-depth study of the rise and fall of these popular, but largely overlooked, adaptations and their place in nineteenth-century American musical life.