Introduction

Biography

Routley at­tend­ed Mag­da­len Col­lege, Ox­ford (BA 1936) and stu­died at Mans­field Col­lege (where he was tu­tor and lec­tur­er in church his­to­ry in 1948).

After or­di­na­tion, he be­came pas­tor of the Dart­ford Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, and re­ceived his Ba­che­lor of Di­vi­ni­ty the next year, and his doc­tor­ate from Ox­ford in 1952. In 1970, he was elect­ed pre­si­dent of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church of Eng­land and Wales.

Routley moved to Prince­ton, New Jer­sey, in 1975, and be­came a vi­sit­ing pro­fess­or and di­rect­or of mu­sic at Prince­ton Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, and Pro­fess­or of Church Mu­sic at West­min­ster Choir Col­lege.

Works

• The Church and Mu­sic, 1950
• The Gift of Con­ver­sion (Muhl­en­berg Press, 1955)
• The Wis­dom of the Fa­thers (West­min­ster Press, 1957)
• The Eng­lish Car­ol, 1958
• Church Mu­sic and Theo­lo­gy, 1959
• Music, Sac­red and Pro­fane (In­de­pen­dent Press, 1960)
• Hymns To­day and To­mor­row (Abing­don Press, 1964)
• Twentieth Cen­tu­ry Church Mus­ic, 1964
• The Di­vine For­mu­la
• The Mu­sic­al Wes­leys (Jenk­ins, 1968)
• Hymns and the Faith (W. B. Eerd­mans, 1968)
• Words, Mu­sic, and the Church (Her­bert Jen­kins, 1968)
• Rejoice in the Lord, A Hymn Com­pan­ion to the Scrip­tures
• Exploring the Psalms (West­min­ster Press, 1975)
• Short His­to­ry of Eng­lish Church Mus­ic (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1977)
• Church Mu­sic and the Chris­tian Faith, 1978
• Music Lead­er­ship in the Church
• A Pa­no­ra­ma of Chris­tian Hym­no­dy (Hymn So­ci­ety of the Unit­ed States & Ca­na­da, 1979)
• Music of Chris­tian Hymns (Hymn So­ci­ety of the Unit­ed States & Ca­na­da, 1981)
• Christian Hymns Ob­served (Tri­an­gle Pro­duct­ions, 1982)