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Article: "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story": A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- September 1, 2009
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"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story": A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America. By David W. Music and Paul A. Richardson. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2008. xvi + 638 pp. $45.00 cloth.
David Music is professor of church music and director of graduate studies in the school of music at Baylor University. Paul Richardson is professor of music in the school of the performing arts at Samford University. Both are members of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and have a long and distinguished record of hymnological research and writing. They have teamed up in this book to trace hymnody among Baptists in North America from its British roots in the ...