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Aug 8, 2008 · When did churches start using instrumental music? Are there churches today that still only use a capella music?Though we know that early Christians sang during worship, they probably used no ...
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The early Church did not use musical instruments in its worship. It was not until the eighth century that musical instruments were first introduced into the worship of the Western Church. The early Church fathers had strong views on the use of musical instruments in worship. They considered the practice as pagan or Jewish rather than Christian. Dr ...
The organ first seems to have come into Christian worship in the Western Church in the year 757, courtesy of the Frankish King Pepin. It was presented to him as a gift by the Byzantine emperor Constantine V. Pepin in turn presented it to the Church of St Corneille in Compiegne (north of Paris). But this did not lead to widespread or regular use of...
The musical paraphernalia which had been introduced into Christian worship in the Western Church by the sixteenth century were regarded by many Christians as grave abuse. Erasmus, for example, expressed his concern thus: This view was shared by the Reformed wing of the Reformation, in distinction from the Lutherans who tended to retain much of the ...
The Scottish Reformation saw the end of instrumental music in Church worship. In line with Reformed teaching, this practice was seen as a breach of the regulative principle. Unaccompanied singing led by a precentor became the Presbyterian norm. The first recorded incident of a musical instrument being used in Scottish Presbyterian worship was in 18...
The Eastern Church to the present day, the whole Church to the thirteenth century (with minor exceptions in the West), and the Reformed Churches of the Reformation, have all been distinguished by the rejection of musical instruments in Christian worship. When Reformed churches today employ such instruments, they should at least be aware that they a...
Worship & Liturgy > Church music > Musical instruments. Musical Instruments and Musicians In Worship in the Bible: The Old Testament. Basic. Theo E. Lodder. This article shows that musical instruments played a big role in Old Testament worship. Source: Clarion, 2013. 6 pages. Share.
Sep 16, 2019 · The Christian Church rejected instrumental music in worship for most of church history except in two periods: the dark ages of Roman Catholicism in the 14th to the early 16th centuries (with a few isolated instances prior to that), and again in the 19th century to the present.
The use of musical instruments in church services has often been seen as an innovation in church worship. This was the case in both Catholic liturgy and in the Puritan tradition. In the Catholic liturgy the Gregorian chant was for a thousand years the predominant musical form. [1]
Instruments In Worship. Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor. Instrumental music was an essential feature of Hebrew worship. The early Christian church, however, rejected instrumental music, largely because of the pagan associations of many instruments.
Musical Instruments in Church Services. For almost a thousand years Gregorian chant, without any instrumental or harmonic addition, was the only music used in connection with the liturgy. The organ, in its primitive and rude form, was the first, and for a long time the sole, instrument used to accompany the chant.
