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This compilation includes favourites such as "Away In A Manger", "O
Come All Ye Faithful" and "Once In Royal David's City". The book is
complete with background notes and a host of playing hints and
tips. The songs include: "Deck The Halls"; "The First Noel"; "Good
King Wenceslas"; "The Holly And The Ivy"; "Jingle Bells"; "Joy To
The World"; "O Christmas Tree"; "Silent Night".
Texts centred on the mother of Jesus abound in religious traditions
the world over, but thirteenth-century Old French lyric stands
apart, both because of the enormous size of the Marian cult in
thirteenth-century France and the lack of critical attention the
genre has garnered from scholars.As hybrid texts, Old French Marian
songs combine motifs from several genres and registers to
articulate a devotional message. In this comprehensive and
illuminating study, Daniel E. O'Sullivan examines the movement
between secular and religious traditions in medieval culture that
Old French religious song embodies. He demonstrates that Marian
lyric was far more than a simple, mindless imitation of secular
love song. On the contrary, Marian lyric participated in a dynamic
interplay with the secular tradition that different composers
shaped and reshaped in light of particular doctrinal and aesthetic
concerns. It is a corpus that reveals itself to be far more
malleable and supple than past readers have admitted.With an
extensive index of musical and textual editions of dozens of songs,
Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric brings a
heretofore neglected genre to light.
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Requiem
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Karl Jenkins
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(BH Large Choral). (2004, 55 minutes) Karl Jenkins' Requiem sets
the traditional Latin text of the Requiem mass, including the extra
movements included by Faure and Durufle Pie Jesu and In paradisum .
These are interspersed with haiku "death" poems (sung in Japanese)
whose delicate, epigrammatic texts provide a peaceful commentary on
the liturgical words. The result is a deeply moving expression of
spirituality, whose musical tying together of different cultures
provides a link that is highly appropriate to the modern world.
This powerful book will appeal to choirs wanting to sing an unusual
but appealing and effective piece: the full scoring of the work
includes a part for Japanese flute (shakuhachi) and an array of
unusual drums.
Charles Hodge, great professor from Princeton Seminary in the 19th
century, said: "After all, apart from the Bible, the best antidote
to all these false theories of the person and work of Christ, is
such a book as Doctor Schaff's 'Christ in Song.' The hymns
contained in that volumne are of all ages and from all churches.
They set forth Christ as truly God, as truly man, as one person, a
the expiation for our sins, as our intercessor, savior, and king,
as the supreme object of love, as the ultimate ground of
confidence, as the all-sufficient portion of the soul. We want no
better theology and no better religion than are set forth in these
hymns. They were indicted by the Holy Spirit in the sense that the
thoughts and feelings which they express, are due to his operations
on the hearts of his people."
An indispensable and practical guide to protecting and improving
the voice. The gift of a beautiful voice is one to be preserved
until old age, and will give great pleasure to the singer and the
listener alike. This book will enable the singer to be able to
sustain a clear tone effortlessly throughout a rehearsal or
performance. The advice offered here will be invaluable to both
solo and choral singers, and applies to all kinds of singing. As
the voice is a living organ, understanding and exercises are needed
to keep it fit just as the rest of the body does. The book provides
the secrets and techniques that some singers have paid great sums
for!
Church pianists are often asked to provide music that is reflective
and meditative in nature. The six hymns in this collection by
Martha Mier were chosen because of their beauty and for the
messages of comfort and hope that they convey. Titles: In the
Garden * It Is Well with My Soul * Near to The Heart of God * Sweet
Hour of Prayer * 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus * What A Friend We
Have In Jesus
The crowning glory of Bach's achievements in the field of sacred music, this work is a powerful statement of Christian faith and an inspiring musical experience for musicians and music lovers. Scored for two sopranos, alto, tenor, bass, chorus, orchestra, and continuo, this towering masterpiece is reprinted here from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition.
The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any
other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role
music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and
healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and
punishment keep societies safe. The book's synthesis of historical
research, contemporary practices, and pedagogies of music-making
inside prisons reveals that, prior to the 1970s tough-on-crime era,
choirs, instrumental ensembles, and radio shows bridged lives
inside and outside prisons. Mass incarceration had a significant
negative impact on music programs. Despite this setback, current
programs testify to the potency of music education to support
personal and social growth for people experiencing incarceration
and deepen social awareness of the humanity found behind prison
walls. Cohen and Duncan argue that music-making creates
opportunities to humanize the complexity of crime, sustain
meaningful relationships between incarcerated individuals and their
families, and build social awareness of the prison industrial
complex. The authors combine scholarship and personal experience to
guide music educators, music aficionados, and social activists to
create restorative social practices through music-making.
Now in its second edition, Choral Repertoire is the definitive and
comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western
choral tradition. Designed for conductors and directors, students
and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers,
scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts alike, it is an account
of the complete choral output of the most significant composers of
this genre throughout recorded history. Organized by era (Medieval,
Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), Choral
Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era;
trends and styles unique to various countries; biographical
sketches of over 500 composers; and performance annotations of more
than 5,000 individual works. This book has been an essential guide
to programming, a reference tool for program notes and other
research, and, most importantly, a key resource for conductors,
instructors, scholars, and students of choral music. This new
edition features dozens of additional composers, updated
biographical data, and broadly expanded scholarship that brings new
life to this essential text.
A collection of 14 holiday favorites wonderfully arranged for voice
and piano. Appropriate for school or church use. Includes "O Holy
Night," "Good King Wenceslas," "All Through the Night" and more!
Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical
innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly.
Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three
decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation
as it has taken over the world. In this searching, lyrical account
of dance music culture worldwide, Matthew Collin takes stock of its
highest highs and lowest lows across its global trajectory. Through
firsthand reportage and interviews with clubbers and DJs, Collin
documents the itinerant musical form from its underground
beginnings in New York, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1980s, to its
explosions in Ibiza and Berlin, to today's mainstream music scenes
in new frontiers like Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Dubai. Collin shows
how its dizzying array of genres--from house, techno, and garage to
drum and bass, dubstep, and psytrance--have given voice to locally
specific struggles. For so many people in so many different places,
electronic dance music has been caught up in the search for free
cultural space: forming the soundtrack to liberation for South
African youth after Apartheid; inspiring a psychedelic party
culture in Israel; offering fleeting escape from--and at times
into--corporatization in China; and even undergirding a veritable
"independent republic" in a politically contested slice of the
former Soviet Union. Full of admiration for the possibilities the
music has opened up all over the world, Collin also unflinchingly
probes where this utopianism has fallen short, whether the culture
maintains its liberating possibilities today, and where it might go
in the future.
This volume is an introduction to the music and worship of early
Lutheranism as reflected in the life and work of seven of the most
significant musicians and composers whose work shaped church music
in Lutheranism's first 150 years. In the work of these men, the
evangelical thrust of the Reformation took shape to combine a truly
popular vehicle of the people--the chorale--with art music of the
highest excellence. The result of their efforts was some of the
greatest church music the world has even known. This examination of
the music of early Lutheranism together with the theological ideas
which motivated its composers may well be the first step to
approaching more realistically and faithfully the problems and
questions which continue to vex the musical and liturgical life of
today's church.
"Music for the Movies is the one book that should be in the library
of anyone interested in learning about this art of the twentieth
century". -- Elmer Bernstein
"A fascinating read for the film music lover". -- Jerry
Goldsmith
"Music for the Movies is the best overview of the history of the
art I've so far come across". -- David Newman
Film music fans have eagerly awaited this updated and greatly
expanded edition of Tony Thomas' popular history of Hollywood film
music (from the '30s through the '90s) as viewed through portraits
of many of its foremost practitioners.
Includes discussions of the lives, works and influence of
-- Alfred Newman
-- Victor Young
-- Dimitri Tiomkin
-- Franz Waxman
-- Miklos Rosza
-- Max Steiner
-- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
-- Bernard Herrmann
-- Hugo Friedhofer
-- David Raksin
-- Aaron Copland
-- Alex North
-- Elmer Bernstein
-- Henry Mancini
-- Leonard Rosenman
-- Jerry Goldsmith
-- Lalo Schifrin
-- David Shire
-- Bruce Broughton
-- Basil Poledouris ... and others.
Award-winning author Osbeck tells the dramatic stories behind 25
gospel songs, including "The Old Rugged Cross, His Eye Is on the
Sparrow, " and "Precious Lord, Take My Hand." 112 pp.
Among the writers of the Syriac Christian tradition, none is as
renowned as St. Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307-373), known to much of
the later Christian world simply as "the Syrian." The great
majority of Ephrem's works are poetry, with the madrase ("teaching
songs") especially prominent. This volume presents English
translations of four complete madrase cycles of Ephrem: On the
Fast, On the Unleavened Bread, On the Crucifixion, and On the
Resurrection. These collections include some of the most
liturgically oriented songs in Ephrem's corpus, and, as such,
provide a window into the celebration of Lent and Easter in the
Syriac-speaking churches of northern Mesopotamia in the fourth
century. Even more significantly, they represent some of the oldest
surviving poetry composed for these liturgical seasons in the
entire Christian tradition. Not only are the liturgical occasions
of the springtime months a source of colorful imagery in these
texts, but Ephrem also employs traditional motifs of warm weather,
spring rainstorms, and revived vegetation, which likely reflect
Hellenistic literary influences. Like all of Ephrem's poetry, these
songs express early Christian theology in language that is
symbolic, terse, and vibrant. They are rich with biblical allusions
and references, especially to the Exodus and Passion narratives.
They also reveal a contested religious environment in which Ephrem
strove to promote the Christian Pascha and Christian
interpretations of Scripture over and against those of Jewish
communities in the region, thus maintaining firm boundaries around
the identity and practices of the churches.
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The Kumulipo
(Paperback)
Liliuokalani; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The Kumulipo (1897) is a traditional chant translated by
Lili'uokalani. Published in 1897, the translation was written in
the aftermath of Lili'uokalani's attempt to appeal on behalf of her
people to President Grover Cleveland, a personal friend. Although
she inspired Cleveland to demand her reinstatement, the United
States Congress published the Morgan Report in 1894, which denied
U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The
Kumulipo, written during the Queen's imprisonment in Iolani Palace,
is a genealogical and historical epic that describes the creation
of the cosmos and the emergence of humans, plants, and animals from
"the slime which established the earth." "At the time that turned
the heat of the earth, / At the time when the heavens turned and
changed, / At the time when the light of the sun was subdued / To
cause light to break forth, / At the time of the night of Makalii
(winter) / Then began the slime which established the earth, / The
source of deepest darkness." Traditionally recited during the
makahiki season to celebrate the god Lono, the chant was passed
down through Hawaiian oral tradition and contains the history of
their people and the emergence of life from chaos. A testament to
Lili'uokalani's intellect and skill as a poet and songwriter, her
translation of The Kumulipo is also an artifact of colonization,
produced while the Queen was living in captivity in her own palace.
Although her attempt to advocate for Hawaiian sovereignty and the
restoration of the monarchy was unsuccessful, Lili'uokalani,
Hawaii's first and only queen, has been recognized as a beloved
monarch who never stopped fighting for the rights of her people.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Lili'uokalani's The Kumulipo is a
classic of Hawaiian literature reimagined for modern readers.
In "Subculture to Clubcultures" Steve Redhead responds to the
separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation
of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a
redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain the most
recent developments in popular music culture - from the rise of
'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene. The
coverage in this book includes: the dance pop culture of the 1980s
and 1990s; global youth culture as it was dynamized in this period
by Garage, House, Electro, Techno and other contemporary dance
music forms; and, the consequences of this for the continued
importance of various forms of rock and pop music and a range of
theoretical approaches to the economic and cultural condition of
the postmodern.
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song "Goodbye Broadway,
Hello France" (1917) announces: "Music will help win the war!" This
ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in
advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the
American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both
imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music
writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military
and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears
straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in
addition to discourse about gender, soldiering and music, evince a
more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of
sheet music and military singing practices in America during the
First World War that critically situates them in the social
discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the
historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles
between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many
men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were
also singing songs in their military training. Close musical
analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of
this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier
and civilian music making at this time.
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