A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church

Prelude: Honor father and mother

The song of the church in the New Testament

The church in a pagan society

Clement of Alexandria : musical cosmology and composed manners

Tertullian : pagan spectacles and Christian households

Expansion and persecution, triumph and trouble

St. Ambrose : administrator and mystic

St. John Chrysostom : Christian households amid the devil's garbage heap

Rejection : the music of a pagan world

Affirmation : Psalms and hymns

St. Augustine : the problems of eloquence and inordinate love Postlude: What can the early church teach us about music?