Loflied

Arvid Liljelund se "Man Singing Hymn" (1884)

'n Loflied is 'n soort lied, gedeeltelik sinoniem met 'n gewyde lied, en word spesifiek geskryf vir die doel van aanbidding of gebed, en word tipies gerig aan 'n godheid of gode, of aan 'n prominente figuur of personifikasie.

Versamelings van lofliedere staan bekend as gesangboeke of lofliedere. Lofliedere kan instrumentale begeleiding insluit of nie. Polyhymnia is die Griekse/Romeinse godin van lofliedere.

Bronnelys

• Bradley, Ian. Abide with Me: the World of Victorian Hymns. London: S.C.M. Press, 1997. ISBN 0-334-02703-9
• Hughes, Charles, Albert Christ Janer, and Carleton Sprague Smith, eds. American Hymns, Old and New. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. 2 vols. N.B.: Vol. l, [the music, harmonized, with words, of the selected hymns of various Christian denominations, sects, and cults]; vol. 2, Notes on the Hymns and Biographies of the Authors and Composers. ISBN 0-231-05148-4 set comprising both volumes.
• Weddle, Franklyn S. How to Use the Hymnal. Independence, Mo.: Herald House, 1956.
• Wren, Brian. "Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song". Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. ISBN 0-664-25670-8
• H. A. Hodges (ed. E. Wyn James), Flame in the Mountains: Williams Pantycelyn, Ann Griffiths and the Welsh Hymn (Tal-y-bont: Y Lolfa, 2017), 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-78461-454-6.