Music-Religious

There is a similarity in content to the fi rst book, but a diff erence in style. The recent poems are increasingly attuned to giving praise and honor to God and His son Jesus Christ. Following the number and name of each chapter are...

This comprehensive guide to accompanying plain chant provides practical advice and instruction on the techniques and skills needed to be an expert accompanist. Written for musicians and church organists, this book includes detailed musical examples and exercises that will help readers sharpen their musicianship...

Weddings and Other Adventures of a Church Organist. Mostly humorous anecdotes of events that an organist experiences over a long career as a church musician.Author: Madonna Jordan BrownleeISBN-10: 1514675714ISBN-13: 9781514675717Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2016Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.19d

Silencing the Drum explores the role of sacred music in Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and provides detailed accounts of religious intolerance, particularly in relation to the drum. The book argues that unless Afro-Brazilian sacred music is protected from a rising wave of attacks, the effects...

Silencing the Drum explores the role of sacred music in Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and provides detailed accounts of religious intolerance, particularly in relation to the drum. The book argues that unless Afro-Brazilian sacred music is protected from a rising wave of attacks, the effects...

"Your heart is the real temple. It is there that you must install God. Good thoughts are the flowers to be offered to Him. Good actions are the worship. Good words are the hymns. Love is the divine offering." This Book Is In English....

This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or arose in the process of ethnography and its analysis. The book explores various aspects of Christian music in British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon, but...

This collection of Christian hymns and sacred songs, originally published in German, includes beautiful and uplifting lyrics and is sure to inspire readers to deepen their faith and devotion.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the...

Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which...

Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which...

"More popular than Jesus."Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon's famous assessment of the Beatles vis-à-vis religion was not far off. The Beatles did mean more to kids than the religions in which they were raised, not only in America...

"More popular than Jesus."Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon's famous assessment of the Beatles vis-?-vis religion was not far off. The Beatles did mean more to kids than the religions in which they were raised, not only in America...

Monteverdi's Vespers is an exceptional collection of sacred music, both in the inventiveness of the compositions that it contains and in the debate that it has provoked over its use in the seventeenth century and over Monteverdi's intentions in publishing it. This handbook provides...

Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi--all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe's...

As death comes out of the closet in contemporary society, this book presents the views on heaven and the afterlife of a number of well-known Victorians, and others not so well known, in the belief that they may help us today.Author: Ian BradleyISBN-10: 1789593069ISBN-13:...

The Jovial Crew; Or The Merry Beggars: A Comic-Opera is a play written by Richard Brome. It is a comedic tale of a group of beggars who, despite their poverty, lead a joyous and carefree life. The story follows the adventures of these beggars...

A helpful guide for upgrading and maintaining a basic affordable church sound system.Author: Christian RobinsonISBN-10: 0692881735ISBN-13: 9780692881736Publisher: Christian RobinsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2017Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.12d

60 Historic Hymns set to 72 tunes, written to the Blessed Virgin including hymns for May Crowning, the Month of May and Novenas to Mary, rare hymns for the Assumption and Annunciation. Also available as part of an Anthology of The Catholic Hymnal. Ellen...

The Boy Scout Song Book is a collection of songs compiled by C.C. Birchard for the use of boy scouts. The book includes a wide variety of traditional and original songs that are suitable for campfires, hikes, and other scouting activities. The songs are...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence.Author: Andrew Hass, Mattias Martinson, Laurens Ten KateISBN-10: 0367902443ISBN-13: 9780367902445Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2024Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Author: Robert Leach, Roy PalmerISBN-10: 0521292069ISBN-13: 9780521292061Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1978Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.39d

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's...

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bart k's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Y r k Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bart k's introduction...

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action...

A classic Swedish Christmas carol composed by Emil Sj gren, originally published in 1892. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students...

As death comes out of the closet in contemporary society, this book presents the views on heaven and the afterlife of a number of well-known Victorians, and others not so well known, in the belief that they may help us today.Author: Ian BradleyISBN-10: 1789592917ISBN-13:...

On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a hyper-religious music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground....

This book is a compilation of hymns and worship songs intended for use in Christian churches and schools. It includes traditional hymns as well as more modern compositions, and is organized both thematically and by liturgical season. While of specific interest to those involved...

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bart k's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Y r k Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bart k's introduction...

This volume describes the traditional vocal and instrumental music of the Lao-speaking people living in Northeast Thailand. Beginning with a description of the cultural and historical contexts of this music, Miller continues with an overview of Northeast Thai music, its instruments, concepts, and certain...

This book critically addresses the conventional practices of studies on music, while taking readers through various global examples of musical expression.Author: Steven LozaISBN-10: 1666932965ISBN-13: 9781666932966Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2023Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Jain Tijara Bhajans are original work of sudhir kumar jain written at Mayur vihar 1, New Delhi.These can be recited on old films dhuns.The Bhajans wordings and melodies will mesmerise you and you will listem to again and again.Any singers can recite these with...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Francis W. GalpinISBN-10: 1443782289ISBN-13: 9781443782289Publisher:...

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther....

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther....

This book is a collection of sacred songs arranged for bass singers. The songs are in English and cover a wide range of religious themes. This book is a valuable resource for singers and music enthusiasts interested in sacred music.This work has been selected...

The reflexive approach and the concept of bimusicality have made possible this in-depth study of the Rada rite, the foundation of the complex and sensationalized religion of Haiti, Vodun. Fleurant returned to his native Haiti to immerse himself in the socio-cultural life of those...

Though American attitudes toward religion changed dramatically during the 1960s, interest in spirituality itself never diminished. If we listen closely, Michael Gilmour contends, we can hear an extensive religious vocabulary in the popular music of the decades that followed--articulating each generation's spiritual quest, a...

Antiche Canzoni di Natale is an old traditional Italian Christmas Carol. his composition by Oreste Ravanello was originally published in the early 20th century. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of music ever composed, reproduced from...

Author: Daniel Willson JiyaISBN-10: 1477106774ISBN-13: 9781477106778Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2012Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

John Harley's Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer's life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history...

A classic Christmas carol composed by W.W. Gilchrist, originally published in 1881. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world...

John E. West's composition of 'The Hymn of Angels' originally published in 1902. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the...

For those who grew up in the Ethical Society it is clear how important the songs we sang were. Every religion emphasizes how singing is a part of the spiritual being, as does the Ethical Society. Many of the "old" heritage songs are not...

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HYMNAL With Five Hymns Written by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy Preface to the 1910 Edition of the Hymnal In presenting the 1910 edition of the Hymnal, the Committee does not claim that all the hymns therein are strictly scientific, as the...

Designed as an aid for the church musician or pastor who would like to locate choral settings based on a particular passage from the Scripture. This second edition of Laster's Catalog combines in one volume the listings from the first catalog with the huge...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes in Bach's work that his listeners would have known, but which may be a mystery to modern musicians.Author: Melvin P. UngerISBN-10: 0810829797ISBN-13: 9780810829794Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/1996Pages: 796Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.40lbsSize: 11.18h x 8.34w x 1.88d

More is at stake in the music we listen to or perform than most people are aware. In this vivacious and challenging work, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski--a philosopher, theologian, composer, conductor, and singer--explains why the great classical music of Western civilization is morally and intellectually...