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Ambrose in the fourth century wrote hymns in a severe style, clothing Christian ideas in classical phraseology, and yet appealing to popular tastes. He had found a new form and created a new school of hymnody. St. Hilary of Poitiers (died 367), who is mentioned by St. Isidore of Seville as the first to compose Latin hymns, and Ambrose, styled by Dreves "the Father of Church-song", are linked together as pioneers of Western hymnody. Isidore, who died in 636, testifies to the spread of the custom from Milan throughout the whole of the West, and refers to the hymns as Ambrosian.〔''Patrologia Latina'', LXXXIII, col. 743.〕 In uncritical ages, hymns, whether metrical or merely accentual, following the material form of those of St. Ambrose, were generally ascribed to him and were called "Ambrosiani". As now used, the term implies no attribution of authorship, but rather a poetical form or a liturgical use. To St. Ambrose himself scholarship gives fourteen hymns certainly, three very probably, and one probably. ==Early hymns== The first actually to compose hymns was St. Hilary, who had spent in Asia Minor some years of exile from his see, and had thus become acquainted with the Syrian and Greek hymns of the Eastern Church. His ''Liber Hymnorum'' has not survived. Daniel, in his ''Thesaurus Hymnologicus'' mistakenly attributed seven hymns to Hilary, two of which〔''Lucis largitor splendide'' and ''Beata nobis gaudia''.〕 were considered by hymnologists generally to have had good reason for the ascription, until Blume〔Analecta Hymnica, Leipzig, 1897, XXVII, 48-52; cf. also the review of Merrill's "Latin Hymns" in the "Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift", 24 March 1906.〕 showed the error underlying the ascription. The two hymns have the metric and strophic cast peculiar to the authenticated hymns of St. Ambrose and to the hymns which were afterwards composed on the model. Like St. Hilary, St. Ambrose was also a "Hammer of the Arians". Answering their complaints on this head, he says: :"Assuredly I do not deny it ... All strive to confess their faith and know how to declare in verse the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." And St. Augustine〔Confessions, IX, vii, 15.〕 speaks of the occasion when the hymns were introduced by Ambrose to be sung "according to the fashion of the East". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ambrosian hymns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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