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The Canadian Youth Hymnal: with music [harmonized] (1939) [529] Songs of the Gospel (a supplemental collection of evangelistic hymns and songs, 1948) [530] Bless the Lord (1967) [531] The Hymn Book (1971), produced jointly with Anglican Church of Canada [24] Sing (1972) [25] Songs for a Gospel People (Supplement to THB, 1987) Voices United ...
The category was then revived in 2005 and it was known once again under the name of Best Gospel Performance. In 2012, following a major overhaul of the Grammy categories, this award was renamed as Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance which was eligible for all subgenres in the gospel/Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) field.
Traditional gospel music is older forms of gospel music. Traditional black gospel, which originated among African-Americans in the early 20th century; Gospel blues, whose popularity peaked in the 1940s and 1950s; Southern gospel, also known as "white gospel" Bluegrass gospel, religious songs out of the bluegrass folk music traditions
Boyer, Horace Clarence, How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel Elliott and Clark, 1995, ISBN 0-252-06877-7. Broughton, Viv, Too Close To Heaven – The Illustrated History of Gospel Music, Midnight Books, 1996, ISBN 1-900516-00-4; Albert E Brumley & Sons, The Best of Albert E Brumley, Gospel Songs, 1966, ISBN na-paperback Amazing Grace
It was the first album to receive the GMA Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year, [1] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album. [ 2 ] The two additional albums produced in the series were My Utmost for His Highest: The Covenant and My Utmost for His Highest: Quiet Prayers .
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."
Abingdon Press was begun in the early 1900s by the Methodist Church, with headquarters in New York City.The name of the imprint is a reference to the town of Abingdon, Maryland, location of the Methodist university Cokesbury College.
The gospel-song genre is unknown in the worship per se by Eastern Orthodox churches, which rely exclusively on traditional chants, and disallow instrumental accompaniment. Along with the more classical sacred music of composers ranging from Mozart to Monteverdi , the Catholic Church continued to produce many popular hymns such as Lead, Kindly ...