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Musical Identities and European Perspective - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, New edition): Franco Fabbri, Ivana... Musical Identities and European Perspective - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, New edition)
Franco Fabbri, Ivana Perkovic
R1,756 Discovery Miles 17 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the relationship between identity and music in Europe from different angles. It takes two basic categories into account: identities in music and music in identities. The authors provide studies on identity construction in different historical and geographical contexts. They also evaluate the discourse of popular music in Europe and analyze various topics related to complex and changing concepts of identity, whether it is about an individual composer, issues of style or musical work itself.

The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 - Music, Context, Performance (Hardcover): Jeffrey Kurtzman The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 - Music, Context, Performance (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Kurtzman
R7,611 R6,513 Discovery Miles 65 130 Save R1,098 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the only thoroughgoing study of the Monteverdi Vespers, vastly expanding on the author's 1978 set of essays on the subject, long since out of print. The volume studies the Vespers from the standpoint of its musical and liturgical origins and context, contains analytical essays on the music, and examines 17th-century performance practice as it pertains to the Vespers. Appendices include bibliographies and an analytical discography.

Imperfect Harmony (Paperback, New): Stacy Horn Imperfect Harmony (Paperback, New)
Stacy Horn
R465 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R72 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She s not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings some of the greatest music humanity has ever produced, delves into the dramatic stories of conductors and composers, unearths thefascinating history of group singing, and explores remarkable discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits. "Imperfect Harmony" is the story of one woman who has found joy and strength in the weekly ritual of singing and in the irresistible power of song."

The Politics of Musical Time - Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance (Paperback): Eben Graves The Politics of Musical Time - Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance (Paperback)
Eben Graves
R980 R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Save R97 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers. The Politics of Musical Time traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kirtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing on padabali kirtan, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, Eben Graves examines how expressions of religious affect and political belonging linked with the genre become strained in contemporary, shortened performance time frames. To illustrate the political economy of performance in South Asia, Graves also explores how religious performances and texts interact with issues of nationalism, gender, and economic exchange. Combining ethnography, history, and performance analysis, including videos from the author's fieldwork, The Politics of Musical Time reveals how ideas about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested through features of musical time found in devotional performance.

The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Sheet music, Paperback): Alan Bullard The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Sheet music, Paperback)
Alan Bullard 1
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems caters for church choirs of all types and sizes, enabling them to have at their fingertips easy music for every occasion. The collection presents flexibility of scoring in a constructive and realistic way, with particular provision for unison or two-part singing, while not forgetting SATB choirs, and a focus on ease of learning and performance. With complete coverage of the Church's year, and a fabulous range of accessible, quality material, this is a vital resource for all church choirs. Also available as a spiral-bound paperback.

Four Coronation Anthems (Sheet music, Vocal score): George Frideric Handel Four Coronation Anthems (Sheet music, Vocal score)
George Frideric Handel; Edited by Clifford Bartlett
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

These four splendid anthems were composed for the coronation of George II in October 1727 and have since retained a position at the heart of the English choral tradition. The popular anthem Zadok the priest has been performed at all subsequent coronations, and Handel's other contributions to the royal occasion - Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice, and My heart is inditing - have the same majestic grandeur, with affecting contrasts between different sections of the sacred texts. The editor, Clifford Bartlett, has corrected various inconsistencies in Handel's score, and complete details of sources and editorial method, additional performance notes, and a critical commentary can be viewed in the companion full score available on hire.

Joy and Woe are Woven Fine (Sheet music, Vocal score): Cecilia McDOWALL Joy and Woe are Woven Fine (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Cecilia McDOWALL
R106 Discovery Miles 1 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

for SSATB unaccompanied This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis on the relationship between pleasure and sorrow. Joy and Woe are woven fine will make a striking addition to the repertory of more experienced choirs looking to try something new.

Cantique de Jean Racine (Sheet music, SATB vocal score): Gabriel Faure Cantique de Jean Racine (Sheet music, SATB vocal score)
Gabriel Faure; Edited by John Rutter
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cantique de Jean Racine was written in 1865 during Faure's final year at the Ecole Niedermeyer, winning him the first prize for composition, and this elegant work now holds a cherished place in the choral repertory for both sacred and secular occasions. Presented with an English singing translation in addition to the original French, John Rutter's edition includes an accompaniment for organ or piano, and the work may also be performed with the transcription for harp and strings (available separately), compatible with the instrumentation for the OUP edition of the Faure Requiem in its 1893 version. Complete orchestral and vocal material is available on hire/rental and on sale. In addition, an arrangement for upper voices (SSAA) with Faure's original keyboard accompaniment is available on sale.

Singing God's Words - The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism (Paperback): Jeffrey Summit Singing God's Words - The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism (Paperback)
Jeffrey Summit
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the empowerment of lay people and a search for self-fulfillment through involvement with community. At a time when worshippers seek deeper spiritual experience, many Jews have found new meaning in the experience of reading Torah, an act that is broadly accessible to Jewish adults even as it requires intensive immersion with the text of the Bible in Hebrew. This book examines why and how growing numbers of American Jews in all denominations see the public chanting of Biblical texts during the synagogue service as one of the most authentic and personal expressions of their religious identity. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with men and women, both professionals and congregants, Jeffrey A. Summit describes how the reading of Torah embodies their understanding of historical religious practice, even as it is shaped by contemporary views of spiritual experience. Through this act, holiness becomes manifest at the intersection of Biblical chant, sacred text, the individual, and the community.

One Year Book of Hymns, The (Paperback): Robert Brown One Year Book of Hymns, The (Paperback)
Robert Brown
R478 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Feel the Spirit - A cycle of spirituals (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Feel the Spirit - A cycle of spirituals (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

for mezzo-soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra or chamber ensemble Feel the Spirit is a cycle of seven familiar spirituals, expertly arranged by John Rutter. Equally suitable for concert, school, or church use, the vivid and expressive arrangements can be performed individually, or as a complete cycle that showcases the rich heritage of the spiritual. The work brings new life to such well-loved titles as Steal away, I got a robe, and When the saints go marching in.

Hearing Bach's Passions (Paperback): Daniel R. Melamed Hearing Bach's Passions (Paperback)
Daniel R. Melamed
R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions-St. John and St. Matthew-are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which they were performed, questions and problems emerge. Bach scholar Daniel Melamed examines the issues we encounter when we hear the passions performed today, and offers unique insight into Bach's passion settings. Rather than providing a movement-by-movement analysis, Melamed uses the Bach repertory to introduce readers to some of the intriguing issues in the study and performance of older music, and explores what it means to listen to this music today. For instance, Bach wrote the passions for a particular liturgical event at a specific time and place; we hear them hundreds of years later, often a world away and usually in concert performances. They were performed with vocal and instrumental forces deployed according to early 18th-century conceptions; we usually hear them now as the pinnacle of the choral/orchestral repertory, adapted to modern forces and conventions. In Bach's time, passion settings were revised, altered, and tampered with both by their composers and by other musicians who used them; today we tend to regard them as having fixed texts to be treated mith respect. Their music was sometimes recycled from other compositions or reused itself for other purposes; we have trouble imagining the familiar material of Bach's passion settings in any other guise. Melamed takes on these issues, exploring everything from the sources that transmit Bach's passion settings today to the issues surrounding performance practice (including the question of the size of Bach's ensemble). He delves into the passions as dramatic music, examines the problem of multiple versions of a work and the reconstruction of lost pieces, explores the other passions in Bach's performing repertory, and sifts through the puzzle of authorship. Highly accessible to the non-specialist, the book assumes no technical musical knowledge and does not rely on printed musical examples. Based on the most recent scholarship and using lucid prose, the book opens up the debates surrounding this repertory to music lovers, choral singers, church musicians, and students of Bach's music.

Gothic Song - Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris, Second Edition (Hardcover): Margot E. Fassler Gothic Song - Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris, Second Edition (Hardcover)
Margot E. Fassler
R3,376 R3,133 Discovery Miles 31 330 Save R243 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Margot E. Fassler's richly documented history-winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America-demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical and artistic experience, and to our understanding of change and continuity in medieval culture. Fassler examines the figure of Adam of St. Victor and the possible layers within the repertories created at various churches in Paris, probes the ways the Victorine sequences worked musically and exegetically, and situates this repertory within the intellectual and spiritual ideals of the Augustinian canons regular, especially those of the Abbey of St. Victor. Originally published in hardover in 1993, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by Fassler, in which she reviews the state of scholarship on late sequences since the original publication of Gothic Song. Her notes to the introduction provide the bibliography necessary for situating the Victorine sequences, and the late sequences in general, in contemporary thought.

A River Rather Than a Road - The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience (Paperback, New edition): Sarah Morgan, June... A River Rather Than a Road - The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience (Paperback, New edition)
Sarah Morgan, June Boyce-Tillman
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community choirs, including the use of English folksong material in this context. Some useful arrangements of folk songs are included. Community singing events are described with helpful advice on setting up and managing these. It presents a useful model of the range of skills necessary for aspiring community choir leaders. This is linked with the formation of a community that contains spiritual elements; this is theorized in relation to the role of the parish church in communal singing. It also discusses the two aesthetics of choral singing and the relationship between oral and literate traditions. The book arises from the engagement of the University of Winchester in partnership with the local community, which is theorized.

Building Singing Communities - A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Power of Music in Jewish Prayer (Paperback): Joey Weisenberg Building Singing Communities - A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Power of Music in Jewish Prayer (Paperback)
Joey Weisenberg; Foreword by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
R370 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R63 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This how-to guide explains how to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life. Weisenberg presents a veritable treasure house of musical opportunities. 104 pp.

A Song in My Heart - 366 Devotions from Our Best-Loved Hymns (Paperback, Repackaged Edition): Robert J Morgan A Song in My Heart - 366 Devotions from Our Best-Loved Hymns (Paperback, Repackaged Edition)
Robert J Morgan
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God--they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise. Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan has gathered 366 hymns, including favorites such as "Amazing Grace" and "Rock of Ages," as well as classic, lesser-known gems. Each devotional begins with Scripture, includes a story about the hymn or its writer, along with the lyrics to the hymn, and ends with a prayer. Includes an index of hymn titles and first lines.

Musical Authorship from Schutz to Bach (Hardcover): Stephen Rose Musical Authorship from Schutz to Bach (Hardcover)
Stephen Rose
R2,576 Discovery Miles 25 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schutz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity in the period and the ways in which individuality was projected and detected in printed and manuscript music. Its investigation of musical ownership and regulation shows how composers appealed to princely authority to protect their publications, and how town councils sought to control the compositional efforts of their church musicians. Interpreting authorship as a dialogue between authority and individuality, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore changing attitudes to the self in the era between Schutz and Bach.

Mary Did You Know? (Hardcover): Mark Lowry Mary Did You Know? (Hardcover)
Mark Lowry
R380 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R61 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Mary, Did You Know?" the classic song continues to be a seasonal favorite on airplay.

Author and music artist Mark Lowery offers an expanded view of his highly successful Christmas song, ""Mary, Did You Know?"" in this classic gift book. This perennial seller will have a wonderful new and updated design, as well as refreshed text including a new foreword with inspirational insights by Gloria Gaither. CD includes song sung by Lowry and the Gaither Vocal Band plus reflections from Lowry about his sentiments as he wrote about Mary's view, heartbreak, and unwavering faith as the mother of the Savior.

For the beauty of the earth (Sheet music, SA vocal score): John Rutter For the beauty of the earth (Sheet music, SA vocal score)
John Rutter
R102 Discovery Miles 1 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contains two versions of the vocal parts - for SATB and piano or orchestra, or SS or SA and piano or orchestra.

371 Harmonized Chorales And 69 Chorale Melodies (Paperback, 2., Erw. Aufl. ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach 371 Harmonized Chorales And 69 Chorale Melodies (Paperback, 2., Erw. Aufl. ed.)
Johann Sebastian Bach
R500 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R73 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Piano Method). The great Baroque master composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote music for every combination of instruments and voices. His simplest and purest work are four-part chorale compositions and settings, so perfectly constructed that they evoke meditative spirituality. "Figured bass" was a Baroque system of notating harmony. In addition 371 chorales, this collection includes 69 melodies with figured bass. This classic Schirmer edition, edited by Albert Riemenschneider, has sold over 1,000,000 copies since its release in the early 20th century. Primarily for keyboard, the chorales can also be played by other instruments.

Celestial Sirens - Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan (Hardcover): Robert L. Kendrick Celestial Sirens - Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan (Hardcover)
Robert L. Kendrick
R7,619 R6,520 Discovery Miles 65 200 Save R1,099 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life. The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy - New Perspectives (Hardcover): Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, Liza Malamut Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy - New Perspectives (Hardcover)
Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, Liza Malamut; Contributions by Dongmyung Ahn, Aaron Beck, …
R2,073 R1,903 Discovery Miles 19 030 Save R170 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.

The Embodiment of Authority - Perspectives on Performances (Hardcover, New edition): Taina Riikonen, Marjaana Virtanen The Embodiment of Authority - Perspectives on Performances (Hardcover, New edition)
Taina Riikonen, Marjaana Virtanen
R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been challenged, as has the idea of a singular, disembodied authorial ownership of the socio-material meanings surrounding performance. The Embodiment of Authority approaches performance, issues of authority and negotiated knowledge production through multi-material research data and interdisciplinary methods. The book discusses the relationship between authorial questions and performances via the following topics: shared authorities, ontologies of art work, diverse roles of rehearsals in the performance process, and embodied knowledge.

Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Hardcover): Janet K. Page Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Hardcover)
Janet K. Page
R2,595 Discovery Miles 25 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I, the court's emphasis on piety and music meshed perfectly with the musical practices of Viennese convents. This mutually beneficial association disintegrated during the eighteenth century, and the changing relationship of court and convents reveals something of the complex connections among the Habsburg court, the Roman Catholic Church, and Viennese society. Identifying and discussing many musical works performed in convents, including oratorios, plays with music, feste teatrali, sepolcri, and other church music, Page reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and sheds light on the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.

Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Sheet music, Vocal score): Benedict Sheehan Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Benedict Sheehan
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

for SATB unaccompanied Let all mortal flesh keep silence is a reflective, homophonic setting of text from the fourth-century Orthodox Liturgy of St James. Sheehan's setting, an original rather than the customary pairing with the hymn tune 'Picardy', is steeped in the Orthodox tradition, and has pure harmonies and a beautiful stillness.

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