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Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Paperback): Monique M Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen... Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Paperback)
Monique M Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Zoe C. Sherinian
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once 'foreign' become 'indigenous'? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local Christian religious practices and beliefs? How are musical constructions of the local intertwined with regional, national or transnational religious influences and cosmopolitanisms? Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide explores the ways that congregational music-making is integral to how communities around the world understand what it means to be 'local' and 'Christian'. Showing how locality is produced, negotiated, and performed through music-making, this book draws on case studies from every continent that integrate insights from anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural geography, mission studies, and practical theology. Four sections explore a central aspect of the production of locality through congregational music-making, addressing the role of historical trends, cultural and political power, diverging values, and translocal influences in defining what it means to be 'local' and 'Christian'. This book contends that examining musical processes of localization can lead scholars to new understandings of the meaning and power of Christian belief and practice.

Original Lyric Composition - A song of love, wisdom, and Christianity (Paperback): Erwin Parent Original Lyric Composition - A song of love, wisdom, and Christianity (Paperback)
Erwin Parent
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A German Requiem (Sheet music): Johannes Brahms A German Requiem (Sheet music)
Johannes Brahms; Edited by Michael Pilkington
R418 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana (Sheet music, Vocal score): Pietro Mascagni Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Pietro Mascagni; Edited by John Rutter
R142 Discovery Miles 1 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

for soprano solo, opt. alto solo, SATB double choir and piano or orchestra This is a chorus from a one-act opera, which tells a melodramatic story of love, betrayal, and death. This setting is stirring and colorful. Orchestral materials are available on rental.

Ancient and Modern - Hymns and Songs for Refreshing worship (Hardcover, Full Music Edition): Tim Ruffer, Ann E. Harrison, John... Ancient and Modern - Hymns and Songs for Refreshing worship (Hardcover, Full Music Edition)
Tim Ruffer, Ann E. Harrison, John Barnard, Gordon Giles
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world's most famous hymn book has undergone a complete revision and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and the best from today's composers and hymn/song writers. 150 years since its first publication and after sales of 170 million copies, this brand new edition contains over 840 items, ranging from the Psalms to John Bell, Bernadette Farrell and Stuart Townend. The guiding principles behind this collection are: * congregational singability * biblical and theological richness * musical excellence * liturgical versatility * relevance to today's worship styles and to today's concerns New features include added provision for all the seasons of the Church year, new items for carol services and other popular occasions where the repertoire is in need of refreshing, more choices for all-age worship, fresh translations of some ancient hymnody, beautiful new tunes, short songs and chants - alleluias, kyries, blessings etc. and music from the world church. A full range of indexes (including biblical and thematic) and a helpful guide to choosing hymns for every occasion will help to make Ancient & Modern the premier hymn collection of choice. This is the Full Music edition.

The Cyclic Mass - Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century (Hardcover): James Cook The Cyclic Mass - Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century (Hardcover)
James Cook
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continental sources. Nonetheless, to understand English music in this period is to understand it within a changing nexus of two-way cultural exchange with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at the forefront of this. Indeed, the question of 'what is English' cannot truly be answered without also answering the question of 'what is continental'. This book seeks, initially, to answer both of these questions. Perhaps more importantly, it argues that a number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term cultural exchange and that the great binary divide of provenance can, in many cases, productively be broken down. A great many of these works, though often written on the continent, can, it seems, only be understood in relation to English practice - a practice which has had, and will continue to have, major importance in the ongoing history of European Art Music.

Harmony From The Inside Out - A Guide to Peak Performance (Paperback): Jan Carley Harmony From The Inside Out - A Guide to Peak Performance (Paperback)
Jan Carley
R447 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hymnal (Hardcover, 1982): Church Publishing The Hymnal (Hardcover, 1982)
Church Publishing
R891 R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Save R47 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The normative edition for all who sing, choir and congregation alike, containing all hymns and service music.

The Lutheran Hymnal - Gift Edition (Hardcover): The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America The Lutheran Hymnal - Gift Edition (Hardcover)
The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
R1,321 Discovery Miles 13 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Requiem Opus 48 - Opus 48 (Sheet music): Gabriel Faure Requiem Opus 48 - Opus 48 (Sheet music)
Gabriel Faure; Edited by Desmond Ratcliffe
R212 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R20 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a loved one, even though his mother had died during the early stages of composition and his father had passed away two years before. Faure's composition does not set his Requiem to the standard liturgical text, instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent Paradisum, and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum - which, for most composers, are opportunities to demonstrate the dramatic possibilities available with the choral and orchestral forces. As a result the mood of the Requiem is relatively calm and peaceful and often referred to as a lullaby of death. Faure's unconventional composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and available here is the vocal score, for soloists and SATB choir with piano accompaniment, as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.

British Royal Weddings - From the Stuarts to the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Matthias Range British Royal Weddings - From the Stuarts to the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Matthias Range
R3,273 Discovery Miles 32 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Musica Brasileira - A History of Popular Music and the People of Brazil (Hardcover): Claus Schreiner Musica Brasileira - A History of Popular Music and the People of Brazil (Hardcover)
Claus Schreiner; Translated by Mark Weinstein
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Carols for Choirs, Bk.4 (Paperback, Vocal score): David Willcocks, John Rutter Carols for Choirs, Bk.4 (Paperback, Vocal score)
David Willcocks, John Rutter
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

50 carols for sopranos and altos (suitable for boys', girls', or women's choirs). It contains mostly simple arrangements of the best-loved carols, some less well-known ones, and four original pieces by Britten (2), Rutter, and Hadley. Most of the Christmas hymns are presented in two versions; for choirs only, unaccompanied, and for choir and audience/congregation, with accompaniment.
Orchestral accompaniments for many of the carols are available on hire.

Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Paperback): S. Redhead Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Paperback)
S. Redhead
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In " Subculture to Clubculture " Steve Redhead responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980's and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990's.

Gloria (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Gloria (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

for SATB and brass ensemble or full orchestra Gloria was written in 1974 in response to a commission from The Voices of Mel Olson, a choir based in the USA. The division of the work into three movements a respectively proclamatory, prayerful, and joyfully affirmative a corresponds to the divisions in the text. Most of the melodic material derives from a Gregorian chant associated with this text. An accompaniment for orchestra without organ is also available. Full scores, vocal scores, and instrumental parts are available on hire. The first movement of Gloria is available separately under the title Gloria 1.

Blackwell History of Music in Britain: Volume 2 (Hardcover, Volume 2): Bray Blackwell History of Music in Britain: Volume 2 (Hardcover, Volume 2)
Bray
R5,048 Discovery Miles 50 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The music of the sixteenth century has been "rediscovered" regularly since its composition. It was an especially fertile period for English music in particular, and to put the century in a historical and musicological perspective, this volume spans the era from 1485 to 1625, although in order to provide context and perspective the contributors range back to the middle of the fifteenth century and towards the end on the seventeenth.

The book opens with a history of music and musicians in Tudor England, covering composition and performance, as well as the changing functions of music over the period. Two chapters are dedicated to sacred and church music. They cover the last years of Pre-Reformation England (especially the music of Fayrfax, Ashwell, Taverner, and the organ music of Redford, Preston and Rhys), the composers who span the charge to Anglicanism (for example Sheppard and Tallis) and those (such as Tye, Byrd, Morley, Weelkes, Hooper and Gibbons) who helped lay the foundations for the rich heritage of Anglian church music that remains so vibrant a part of the church today. These chapters also consider the particular problems of those who continued to write Latin music after the Reformation (in particular Parsons, White and Byrd). The final three chapters of the book are devoted respectively to secular vocal music, to keyboard music, and to ensemble and lute music. These chapters include a detailed discusson of Tudor partsong, of the consort song, of English Madrigalists, the English Virginal School, the English lutenists and the rich variety of muic for ensemble. The book concludes with full bibliographies and with a comprehensive index.

Miss Saigon (Book): Miss Saigon (Book)
R604 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R58 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Glenn Miller Declassified (Paperback): Dennis M. Spragg Glenn Miller Declassified (Paperback)
Dennis M. Spragg
R739 R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Save R117 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been found. To this day Miller, Baessell, and the pilot, John Robert Stuart Morgan, are classified as missing in action. Weaving together cultural and military history, Glenn Miller Declassified tells the story of the musical legend Miller and his military career as commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band during World War II. After a brief assignment to the Army Specialist Corps, Miller was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command and soon thereafter to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, in the UK. Later that year Miller and his band were to be transferred to Paris to expand the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, but Miller never made it. Miller's disappearance resulted in numerous conspiracy theories, especially since much of the information surrounding his military service had been classified, restricted, or, in some cases, lost. Dennis M. Spragg has gained unprecedented access to the Miller family archives as well as military and government documents to lay such theories to rest and to demonstrate the lasting legacy and importance of Miller's life, career, and service to his country.

The Devil's Music - How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover): Randall J... The Devil's Music - How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
Randall J Stephens
R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When rock 'n' roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working in the world for evil." Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil's Music tells the story of this transformation. Rock's origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock 'n' roll's popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this "blasphemous jungle music," with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of rock 'n' roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites' racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus's message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens's compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.

Children, go where I send thee (Sheet music, Full score): Ryan Murphy Children, go where I send thee (Sheet music, Full score)
Ryan Murphy
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

for SATB chorus and orchestra This joyous arrangement of a traditional spiritual for choir and orchestra is propelled by a light swing tempo. The mood grows more and more euphoric with each succeeding stanza of text, and the uplifting music surges towards an opulent conclusion.

O Albion (Sheet music): Thomas Ades O Albion (Sheet music)
Thomas Ades; Arranged by Jim Clements
R80 R73 Discovery Miles 730 Save R7 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Ever since its premiere in 1994, Thomas Ades' first string quartet, Arcadiana has been captivating audiences with its evocations of vanishing, vanished, and imaginary idylls. Of all the work's movements it is O Albion that has most captured the imagination of listeners: seventeen sighing, devotissimo bars that, in only three minutes, conjure a whole emotional world. This arrangement for SSAATTBB voices was created by Jim Clements for vocal group Voces8, who recorded it for Decca in 2018. It sets a line from William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion: 'The Daughters of Albion hear her woes, and echo back her sighs.' A piano part is included for rehearsal.

A Singing Approach to Horn Playing - Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony Training for Horn (Paperback): Natalie Douglass Grana A Singing Approach to Horn Playing - Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony Training for Horn (Paperback)
Natalie Douglass Grana
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, author and renowned teacher-musician Natalie Douglass Grana develops the fundamental sense of pitch that is essential to play the horn. The book begins with simple songs to sing on solfege, buzz on the mouthpiece, and play on the horn, followed by inner hearing, transposition, and polyphonic exercises. Readers learn to fluidly hear the notes on the page before playing them, through sequential exercises with songs, improvisation, stick notation, and duets. Training continues with progressively challenging melodies, including canons as well as vocal etudes (solfeggi) like those of Giuseppe Concone. Finally, hornists apply their musicianship skills to standard etude, solo, and orchestral horn repertoire. Horn parts are provided with important lines from the orchestra or accompaniment, transposed to also be sung and played on the horn. Accompanying rhythmic and harmonic exercises enable performers to learn to hear the parts together as they play. Through a wide-ranging synthesis of theory, practical advice, and exercises, Douglass Grana puts forth a crucial guide for a new generation of horn players and burgeoning musicians seeking to improve and perfect their sense of pitch.

Carols for Choirs 1 (Sheet music, Vocal score): Reginald Jacques, David Willcocks Carols for Choirs 1 (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Reginald Jacques, David Willcocks
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

50 Christmas carols
The volumes of Carols for Choirs have established themselves as the quintessential carol books for carol-singers around the world. Each volume presents a wide rage of carols to suit every occasion, from well-known tunes superbly arranged to be the best original compositions. Carols for Choirs 1 includes carols for audience and congregation with varied harmonizations and festive descants, the full text of the traditional Nine Lessons printed in the appendix, and a detailed list of the carol orchestrations available on rental.
Orchestrations for several of the carols from this collection are available on sale or hire under the titles Three Carol Orchestrations and Five Christmas Carols.
Eight Carol Accompaniments for 5 and 8 part brass (to accompany carols from CfC1 and CfC2) are also on sale.

Parlar cantando - The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 (Hardcover, New edition): Elena Abramov-Van Rijk Parlar cantando - The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 (Hardcover, New edition)
Elena Abramov-Van Rijk
R2,356 Discovery Miles 23 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry, as well as other literary sources and documents from the period between 1300 and 1600, highlights above all the practice of parlar cantando («speaking through singing - the term found in De li contrasti, a fourteenth-century treatise on poetry) as rooted in the art of reciting verses. Situating the practice of parlar cantando in the context of late medieval poetic delivery, the author sheds new light on the origin and history of late Renaissance opera style, which their inventors called stile recitativo, rappresentativo or, exactly, parlar cantando. The deepest roots of the Italian tradition of parlar cantando are thus revealed, and the cultural background of the birth of opera is reinterpreted and revisited from the much broader perspective of what appears to be the most important Italian mode of music making between the age of Dante and Petrarch and the beginning of Italian opera around 1600.

Hell - My Life in the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Paperback): Tom Maxwell Hell - My Life in the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Paperback)
Tom Maxwell
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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