noun
definition
The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
definition
The hymns of a particular church or of a particular time.
Examples of hymnody in a Sentence
The foundation of his future work as the father of Methodist hymnody was laid in Georgia.
The new book was a brave attempt to raise the quality of English hymnody.
In the course of his labours as editor of this volume he was struck by the unity which was presented by Christian hymnody, "binding together by the force of a common attraction, more powerful than all causes of difference, times ancient and modern, nations of various race and language, Churchmen and Nonconformists, Churches reformed and unreformed" (Preface).
In the same field of literature Lord Selborne further laboured by the publication of another collection called The Book of Praise Hymnal; a contribution to an edition of Bishop Ken's hymns; a paper on English Church Hymnody at a Church Congress; and the article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on "Hymns" (q.v.), which was republished as a separate volume in 1892.
So had the Reformation, but that did not stop new vernacular hymnody from becoming one of its enduring fruits.
The debate on multi-faith hymnody was first aired in the Bulletin in April 2005.