While such engagements have exerted relatively little influence on Methodist practice and have received limited historiographical consideration, they offer revealing insights into the diversity of Methodism throughout its history.
Footnote 2 However, the predominance of congregational hymnody within Methodism has tended to marginalize other ways in which it engaged with musical culture more broadly. Methodist hymnody has long been a subject of scholarly endeavour, especially the hymns of Charles Wesley, but also the work of other Methodist hymn-writers and the uses of music in Methodist practice. Footnote 1 Music has occupied a significant place in people's experiences of Methodism throughout its history, as well as being a matter that has warranted serious attention from the leaders of Methodism's many branches. These texts shaped its practical and theological development in numerous ways, establishing for Methodists a reputation and legacy as a ‘singing people’ that has endured ever since. It argues that Methodism was not, contrary to popular perception, uniformly opposed to or detached from the aesthetic considerations of artistic culture, that eighteenth-century Methodism and John and Charles Wesley cannot be regarded as synonymous and that, in this period, sacred music encompasses rather more than church music and cannot be narrowly defined in opposition to secular music.Ĭharles Wesley's vast corpus of hymn texts is the most defining cultural artefact of eighteenth-century Methodism. The article examines the textual and musical characteristics of these the better to understand their relationship with both eighteenth-century Methodism and fashionable musical culture of the period. The personal musical preferences of John and Charles Wesley brought them into contact with several leading musical figures in eighteenth-century London and initiated a small corpus of original musical settings of some of the latter's hymns.
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