https://www.logos.com/product/184118/hymns-and-hymnody-historical-and-theological-introductions
This prepub may have already been recommended/discussed.
But it's unusual.
- 3 action-packed volumes (ok, lyrical). And you can buy individually by period.
- Unusual, since it crosses traditions by time, looking at the changes
- An academic base; or would that be alto?
At our church years back, they crossed those wonderful expansive organ-driving songs out, in favor of snappy base-guitar beats. But what caught my attention, was the object of worship had shifted. Hmmm?