Editors' Preface vii
Family Tree ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction xiii
Nicholas Temperley
PART 1: MUSIC AND METHODISM
1. John Wesley, Music, and the People Called Methodists 3
Nicholas Temperley
2. Charles Wesley and the Music of Poetry 26
J. R. Watson
3. Psalms and Hymns and Hymns and Sacred Poems: Two Strands of Wesleyan Hymn Collections 41
Robin A. Leaver
4. John Frederick Lampe's Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions 52
Martin V. Clarke
5. Methodist Anthems: The Set Piece in English Psalmody (1750-1850) 52
Sally Drage
6. The Music of Methodism in Nineteenth-Century America 77
Anne Bagnall Yardley
7. Eucharistic Piety in American Methodist Hymnody (1786-1889) 88
Geoffrey C. Moore
8. The Musical Settings of Charles Wesley's Hymns (1742 to 2008) 103
Carlton R. Young
PART 2: THE WESLEY MUSICIANS
9. Style, Will, and the Environment: Three Composers at Odds with History 121
Stephen Banfield
10. Charles Wesley's Family and the Musical Life of Bristol 141
Jonathan Barry
11. Pictorial Precocity: John Russell's Portraits of Charles and Samuel Wesley 154
Peter S. Forsaith
12. Harmony and Discord in the Wesley Family Concerts 164
Alyson McLamore
13. Father and Sons: Charles, Samuel, and Charles the Younger 175
Philip Olleson
14. Samuel Wesley as an Antiquarian Composer 183
Peter Holman
15. The Anthem Texts and Word Setting of Sebastian Wesley 200
Peter Horton
16. The Legacy of Sebastian Wesley 216
Stephen Banfield and Nicholas Temperley
Appendix 1: Catalogue of Compositions by Charles Wesley the Younger 231
Methodist Hymnals Cited 242
Bibliography 245
Contributors 263
Index 267