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Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous
peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a
traditional British world that many have forgotten. Jane was not
expecting to fall in love, but she did with Colin, a local
fisherman in her hometown. Then one day she faces the loss every
fisherman's wife fears: the disappearance of her husband when his
boat overturns at sea. Three days later, the boat is finally
dredged up, without Colin. At the same time as Jane struggles with
her grief, she must fight to keep a roof over her family's heads.
With the help and kindness of friends and strangers, the fishing
world rallies around one of their own and in time, Jane forms a
plan to give something back to the community that has helped her.
Jane brings together 40 women from fishing communities up and down
the country to release a charity single, founding The Fishwives
Choir, and gives a voice to women previously unheard. SONG OF THE
SEA is the true story of one woman's love and loss, and after years
in which grief stole her ability to sing, she finds her own voice
again.
Sing Carols! is a collection of traditional carols and Christmas
songs for carol singers of all ages, compiled and arranged by
composer Harry Escott. Featuring all your favourites, every song in
this collection can be sung as a single unison line, with
easy-to-learn second and third parts provided for some.
Additionally, there are some accompaniment suggestions for all the
carols that are easy to perform outside and accompanying backing
tracks are available to download.
The endless wars of the seventeenth century took their toll in the
lives of millions of soldiers and crushing taxes. To legitimise
war, Europe s rulers turned to the Church: O God, we praise you ,
Te Deum Laudamus, was sung in the churches of France and Sweden to
celebrate victory in battle. It was a way of thanking God, but also
an opportunity for congregations to learn what had happened -- and
an occasion for festivities. In this book, the historian Anna Maria
Forssberg applies a narrative and ritual perspective to the Te
Deum, looking at specific wars such as the Thirty Years War and at
themes such as peace and enmity. This is a unique, comparative
study of war propaganda in early modern times, and how it defined
the roles of ruler and ruled alike. There were national
differences, but ultimately all war stories were highly selective.
Bloody defeat and uneventful everyday life were glossed over; what
mattered were spectacular victories and royal glory. Yet in the
end, the war stories peddled in both Sweden and France were
profoundly challenged by the crisis of 1709.
In Book 1 of "The Singing Thing", John Bell explored the reasons
why people sing. In Book 2 he is concerned with learning and
teaching. How do people pick up new music? How do you encourage a
congregation to learn a new song? How can you breathe new life into
quality hymnody which has gone stale? With both tact and
irreverence, John Bell shares insights culled from over 20 years of
experience in this field.
Most choirs spend their rehearsal time focusing on notes, rhythms,
and precision. They rarely, if ever, discuss a song s meaning and
feeling, even though those elements are precisely what draws people
to the music in the first place. Thousands of books have been
written about choral technique, teaching people how to sing
technically well. What sets The Heart of Vocal Harmony apart is its
focus on honest unified expression and the process of delivering an
emotionally compelling performance. It delves into an
underdeveloped vocal topic the heart of the music and the process
involved with expressing it. The Heart of Vocal Harmony is not just
for a cappella groups it is also for vocal harmony groups,
ensembles, and choirs at all levels, with or without instruments.
In addition to the process, the book features discussions with some
of the biggest luminaries in vocal harmony: composers, arrangers,
directors, singers, and groups including Eric Whitacre, Pentatonix,
the Manhattan Transfer, and more!
The "All-in-One Course for Children" takes all of the pages from
"Alfred's Basic Piano Library," Lesson Books 1A and 1B, plus
selected pages from Theory, Recital and Fun Solo Books and combines
them into part of a sequential five-book series. At the completion
of Book 5, the student will be ready to continue into Level 3 of
"Alfred's Basic Piano Library" or "Alfred's Premier Piano Course."
This course is most effective when used under the direction of a
piano teacher or experienced musician.
This wonderful collection brings together seven well-loved carols,
all newly arranged by Mack Wilberg for low voice and piano.
Featuring a range of Christmas texts, including 'Bring a torch,
Jeannette, Isabella', 'Deck the hall', and 'The Twelve Days of
Christmas', it also offers two carols with alternative, original
foreign-language options (French and Catalan). With a delightful
variety of musical styles and moods, this volume is perfect for
recitals, services, and concerts at Christmas time. Also available
in a volume for high voice.
Merengue-the quintessential Dominican dance music-has a long and
complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant
community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz
unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its
growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as
an international music. Using extensive interviews as well as
written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and
contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced,
its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical
and choreographic structures. He tells the tale of merengue's
political functions, and of its class and racial significance. He
not only explores the various ethnic origins of this Ibero-African
art form, but points out how some Dominicans have tried to deny its
African roots. In today's global society, mass culture often marks
ethnic identity. Found throughout Dominican society, both at home
and abroad, merengue is the prime marker of Dominican identity. By
telling the story of this dance music, the author captures the
meaning of mass and folk expression in contemporary ethnicity as
well as the relationship between regional, national, and migrant
culture and between rural/regional and urban/mass culture.
Austerlitz also traces the impact of migration and global culture
on the native music, itself already a vibrant intermixture of
home-grown merengue forms. From rural folk idiom to transnational
mass music, merengue has had a long and colorful career. Its
well-deserved popularity will make this book a must read for anyone
interested in contemporary music; its complex history will make the
book equally indispensable to anyone interested in cultural
studies.
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.
Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided
into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry
executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when
musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us
about commercial popular music? In God Rock, Inc., Andrew Mall
considers the aesthetic, commercial, ethical, and social boundaries
of Christian popular music, from the late 1960s, when it emerged,
through the 2010s. Drawing on ethnographic research, historical
archives, interviews with music industry executives, and critical
analyses of recordings, concerts, and music festival performances,
Mall explores the tensions that have shaped this evolving market
and frames broader questions about commerce, ethics, resistance,
and crossover in music that defines itself as outside the
mainstream.
Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to
uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music,
rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and
identity of a major clerical center. Medieval Liege was the seat of
a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional
number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as
a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day
as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines
the music of religious worship in Liege and reveals within the
liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted
the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and
historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to
the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier
uncovers richly varied ways in which liegeois clergymen fused music
with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred
episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges
new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the
liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban
studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students
interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its
reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. CatherineSaucier is
assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University.
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.
Originally published in 1948 and updated with a new introduction in
1970 this book is a classic study on the musical life of a Bantu
people in Mozambique. It discusses the poetry on which the music
and dances are based and provides, both in original and
translation, 50 Chopi songs which are related to the social setting
of Chopi life. It analyses some of the musical compositions and
their structure with illustrations and transcriptions in score and
describes the method of manufacture of the instruments. One chapter
is devoted to full descriptions of the elaborate orchestral dances.
The book is illustrated by numerous photographs and maps, and
contains a glossary of musical terms, and extracts from early
Portuguese accounts of the Chopi people and their music.
A great collection of 20 hymns arranged at an easy level,
including: Abide with Me * Amazing Grace * Blessed Assurance * For
the Beauty of the Earth * Holy, Holy, Holy * A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God * Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us * To God Be the Glory *
What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.
The Methodist Church, with its distinctive musical inheritance by
which the worldwide Church has been enriched, famously expresses
its theology through its singing. Its authorised hymnbook therefore
means more than a hymn book does in other traditions - it expresses
the central beliefs of the Church itself and is commended to
congregations as their core worship resource. Seven years in
development, Singing the Faith is authorised by the Methodist
Conference and replaces Hymns and Psalms, published almost 30 years
ago. Containing the classic, best loved hymns of the Christian
tradition it also incorporates many bold and exciting elements
including hymns, songs and liturgical chants from the world church.
A large proportion of its 830+ items are 20th and 21st century
compositions, offering congregations a feast of musical choices
spanning centuries and continents. It is arranged thematically in
three parts: God's Eternal Goodness - the Trinity, praise and
adoration, creation, gathering for worship, Scripture and
revelation God's Redeeming Work - the life of Christ revealed
throughout the Christian year God's Enduring Purposes - the Holy
Spirit, our life in God, prayer, the sacraments, our human
journeys, the saints and the life to come. Many helpful indexes
enable fitting choices to be made that will enrich all occasions of
worship.
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Inside Studio 54
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Mark Fleischman; As told to Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
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In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes
of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a
place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip
champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar
bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54,
the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was
closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up
that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after
the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54
invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and
'80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free
sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he
built connections as a hotel, restaurant, and club owner that lead
him to Studio 54. Inside Studio 54 takes the reader from Brazil to
the heights of debauchery in the Virgin Islands and finally to New
York City. A star-studded thrill ride through decadent and
drug-fueled parties at the legendary Studio 54.
A unique record of Poulenc (1899-1963) who is considered the
greatest composer of melodies of his period, a period that opened
with the aftermath of the First World War and closed as recently as
1960. He set to music poetry by all the greatest French twentieth
century poets as well as others from earlier times. He wrote this
diary of songs as an answer to what he felt were the frequent
misinterpretations of his work. It describes the origins of each
song, comments on performances he heard and offers guidelines for
interpretation. The diary is filled out with explanatory notes, a
collection of unfamiliar photographs and the English translation to
the text written opposite the French original. It will appeal to
singers who include French song in his or her repertoire and also
to those who have an interest in music of this period. The
translator, Winifred Radford is also the singer who gave the first
performance in England of Poulenc's song cycle Fiancailles pour
rire in 1945. She was coached by Poulenc and Pierre Bernac with
whom she later translated The Interpretation of French Song and
Francis Poulenc - The Man and his Songs.
This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African
American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the
supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal
Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in
addition to the Negro spirituals, gospel songs, and hymns.
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