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The Cantatas of J. S. Bach (Hardcover): Alfred Durr The Cantatas of J. S. Bach (Hardcover)
Alfred Durr; Translated by Richard Jones
R6,570 Discovery Miles 65 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar. This work is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the Bach cantatas. It begins with a historical survey of the seventeenth-century background to the cantatas, and performance practice issues. The core of the book is a work-by-work study in which each cantata in turn is represented by its libretto, a synopsis of its movements, and a detailed analytical commentary. This format makes it extremely useful as a reference work for anyone listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas. In this edition all the cantata librettos are given in German-English parallel text. The most recent (sixth) German edition appeared in 1995. For the English edition the text has been carefully revised to bring it up to date, taking account of Bach scholarship since that date.

Lament and Laughter; The Psalms in English Verse (Hardcover): David G Preston Lament and Laughter; The Psalms in English Verse (Hardcover)
David G Preston
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Inside the Offertory - Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (Hardcover): Rebecca Maloy Inside the Offertory - Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (Hardcover)
Rebecca Maloy
R2,254 Discovery Miles 22 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. Its elaborate solo verses are among the most splendid of chant melodies, yet the verses ceased to be performed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, making them among the least known and studied members of the repertory. Rebecca Maloy now offers the first comprehensive investigation of the offertory, drawing upon its music, lyrics, and liturgical history to shed new light on its origins and chronology. Maloy addresses issues that are at the very heart of chant scholarship, such as the relationship between the Gregorian and Old Roman melodies, the nature of oral transmission, the presence of non-Roman pieces in the Gregorian repertory, and the influence of theoretical thought on the transmission of the melodies. Although the Old Roman chant versions were not recorded in writing until the eleventh century, it has long been assumed that they closely reflect the eighth-century state of the melodies. Maloy illustrates, however, that rather than preserving a pristine earlier version of the melodies, the prolonged period of oral transmission from the eighth to the eleventh centuries instead enforced a formulaic trend. Demonstrating that certain musical and textual traits of the offertory are distributed in distinct patterns by liturgical season, she outlines new chronological layers within the repertory, and along the way, explores the presence and implications of foreign imports into the Roman and Gregorian repertories. Carefully weighing questions surrounding the origins of elaborate verse melodies, Maloy deftly establishes that these melodies reached their final form at a relatively late date. Available for the first time as a complete critical edition, ninety-four Gregorian and Old Roman offertories are presented here in side-by-side transcriptions. A companion web site provides music examples and essays which elucidate these transcriptions with significant insights into their similarities and differences. Inside the Offertory will be an important and longstanding resource for all students and scholars of early liturgical music, as well as performers of early music and medievalists interested in music.

American Popular Music and its Business: Volume II: From 1790 to 1909 (Hardcover): Russell Sanjek American Popular Music and its Business: Volume II: From 1790 to 1909 (Hardcover)
Russell Sanjek
R4,662 R4,000 Discovery Miles 40 000 Save R662 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the second of three volumes designed, in the author's words, to tell 'the story of America's popular songs, the people who wrote them, and the business they created and sustained'. Volume II concentrates on the 19th century, and among the topics discussed are: the effect of changing technology upon the printing of music; the growth of the American musical theatre; popular religious music; black music (including spirituals and ragtime); music during the Civil War; and 'music in the era of monopoly' (covering copyright, changing technology and distribution, the invention of the phonograph, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley).

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age (Hardcover): David Friddle Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age (Hardcover)
David Friddle; Foreword by Amanda Quist
R2,850 Discovery Miles 28 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age charts the interrelated beginning and development of choral methods and community choruses beginning in the early nineteenth century. Using more than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs to document this phenomenon, author David Friddle writes persuasively about this unusual tandem expansion. Beginning in 1781, with the establishment of the first secular singing group in Germany, Friddle shows how as more and more choral ensembles were founded throughout Germany, then Europe, Scandinavia, and North America, the need for singing treatises quickly became apparent. Music pedagogues Hans Georg Nageli, Michael Traugott Pfeiffer, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi invented the genre that became modern choral methods; initially these books were combinations of music fundamental primers, with frequent inclusion of choral works intended for performance. Eventually authors branched out into choral conducting textbooks, detailed instructions on how to found such a community-based organization, and eventually classroom music instruction. The author argues that one of the greatest legacies of this movement was the introduction of vocal music education into public schools, which led to greater musical literacy as well as the proliferation of volunteer choirs. All modern choral professionals can find the roots their career during this century.

Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs, 1563-1700 (Hardcover): Michael Noone Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs, 1563-1700 (Hardcover)
Michael Noone
R4,494 Discovery Miles 44 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The performance and composition of liturgical music at El Escorial re-examined. Philip II of Spain founded the great Spanish monastery and royal palace of El Escorial in 1563, promoting within it a musical foundation whose dual function as royal chapel and monastery in the service of a Counter Reformation monarch was unique; this volume explores the performance and composition of liturgical music there from its beginnings to the death of Charles II in 1700. It traces the ways in which music styles and practices responded to the the changing functions of the institution, challenging notions about Spanish musical patronage, scrutinising musical manuscripts, uncovering the biographical details of hundreds of musicians, and examining musical practices. Michael Noone is Professor of Musicology at the University of Hong Kong.

Music and Faith - Conversations in a Post-Secular Age (Hardcover): Jonathan Arnold Music and Faith - Conversations in a Post-Secular Age (Hardcover)
Jonathan Arnold
R1,175 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Save R183 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are its effects? This book explores examples of how the Christian story is still expressed in music and how it is received by those who experience that art form, whether in church or not. Through conversations with a variety of writers, artists, scientists, historians, atheists, church laity and clergy, the term post-secular emerges as an accurate description of the relationship between faith, religion, spirituality, agnosticism and atheism in the west today. In this context, faith does not just mean belief; as the book demonstrates, the temporal, linear, relational and communal process of experiencing faith is closely related to music. Music and Faith is centred on those who, by-and-large, are not professional musicians, philosophers or theologians, but who find that music and faith are bound up with each other and with their own lives. Very often, as the conversations reveal, the results of this 'binding' are transformative, whether it be in outpourings of artistic expression of another kind, or greater involvement with issues of social justice, or becoming ordained to serve within the Church. Even those who do not have a Christianfaith find that sacred music has a transformative effect on the mind and the body and even, to use a word deliberately employed by Richard Dawkins, the 'soul'. JONATHAN ARNOLD is Dean of Divinity and Fellow of MagdalenCollege, Oxford. Before being ordained, he was a professional singer and made numerous recordings with The Sixteen, Polyphony, the Gabrielli Consort and The Tallis Scholars, among others. He has previously published Sacred Music in Secular Society (2014), The Great Humanists: An Introduction (2011) and John Colet of St. Paul's: Humanism and Reform in Pre-Reformation England (2007).

Rejoice and be merry (Sheet music, Full score): John Rutter Rejoice and be merry (Sheet music, Full score)
John Rutter
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sing Romantic Music Romantically - Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices (Hardcover): David Friddle Sing Romantic Music Romantically - Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices (Hardcover)
David Friddle; Foreword by Nick Strimple
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a paucity of material regarding how choral music specifically was performed in the 1800s. The Historically Informed Performance (HIP) movement has made remarkable advancements in choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, with modest forays into the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and other early nineteenth-century composers; however, there are no sources with a comprehensive examination of how choral music was performed. Using more than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and relying on influential, contemporaneous sources, David Friddle details the performance practices of the time, including expressive devices such as articulation, ornamentation, phrasing, tempo, and vibrato, along with an in-depth discussion of period pronunciation, instruments, and orchestral/choral placement. Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices fills a gap in choral scholarship and moves forward our knowledge of how choral music sounded and was performed in the nineteenth century. The depth of research and abundance of source material makes this work a must-have for choral professionals everywhere.

Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century - Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (Hardcover):... Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century - Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (Hardcover)
Eftychia Papanikolaou, Markus Rathey; Contributions by Chiara Bertoglio, Callum Blackmore, James A. Davis, …
R2,981 Discovery Miles 29 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the "sacred" is viewed as a functional as well as a topical category that enhances the discourse of cross-pollination of musical vocabularies between sacred and secular compositions, church and concert music. Using a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors articulate how sacred and religious identities coalesce, reconcile, fuse, or intersect in works from the long nineteenth century that traverse an array of genres and compositional styles.

(White)Washing Our Sins Away - American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity (Hardcover): Deborah Justice (White)Washing Our Sins Away - American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity (Hardcover)
Deborah Justice
R2,214 R1,910 Discovery Miles 19 100 Save R304 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nicaea and its Legacy - An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology (Hardcover): Lewis Ayres Nicaea and its Legacy - An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology (Hardcover)
Lewis Ayres
R7,504 Discovery Miles 75 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first part of Nicaea and its Legacy offers a narrative of the fourth-century trinitarian controversy. It does not assume that the controversy begins with Arius, but with tensions among existing theological strategies. Lewis Ayres argues that, just as we cannot speak of one `Arian' theology, so we cannot speak of one `Nicene' theology either, in 325 or in 381. The second part of the book offers an account of the theological practices and assumptions within which pro-Nicene theologians assumed their short formulae and creeds were to be understood. Ayres also argues that there is no fundamental division between eastern and western trinitarian theologies at the end of the fourth century. The last section of the book challenges modern post-Hegelian trinitarian theology to engage with Nicaea more deeply.

Multivocality - Singing on the Borders of Identity (Hardcover): Katherine Meizel Multivocality - Singing on the Borders of Identity (Hardcover)
Katherine Meizel
R2,786 Discovery Miles 27 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices. Multivocality constitutes an effort toward a fuller understanding of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity. Author Katherine Meizel recovers the idea of multivocality from its previously abstract treatment, and re-embodies it in the lived experiences of singers who work on and across the fluid borders of identity. Highlighting singers in vocal motion, Multivocality focuses on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones.

Libera Nos, Salva Nos - Deliver Us, Grant Us Life Everlasting (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Sheppard Libera Nos, Salva Nos - Deliver Us, Grant Us Life Everlasting (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Sheppard; Edited by John Rutter
R119 Discovery Miles 1 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
John Taverner - His Life and Music (Paperback): Hugh Benham John Taverner - His Life and Music (Paperback)
Hugh Benham
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

John Taverner was the leading composer of church music under Henry VIII. His contributions to the mass and votive antiphon are varied, distinguished and sometimes innovative; he has left more important settings for the office than any of his predecessors, and even a little secular music survives. Hugh Benham, editor of Taverner's complete works for Early English Church Music, now provides the first full-length study of the composer for over twenty years. He places the music in context, with the help of biographical information, discussion of Taverner's place in society, and explanation of how each piece was used in the pre-Reformation church services. He investigates the musical language of Taverner's predecessors as background for a fresh examination and appraisal of the music in the course of which he traces similarities with the work of younger composers. Issues confronting the performer are considered, and the music is also approached from the listener's point of view, initially through close analytical inspection of the celebrated votive antiphon Gaude plurimum.

Christ in Song (Hardcover): Philip Schaff Christ in Song (Hardcover)
Philip Schaff
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

CHRIST IN SONG: Hymns of Immanuel from all ages is a unique compilation of the best hymns from every branch of the Christian Faith. Philip Schaff, best known for his massive History of the Christian Church, has compiled hymns that center upon the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. Charles Hodge 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 Dr. Schaff's "Christ in Song." The hymns contained in that volume are of all ages and from all churches. They set forth Christ as truly God, as truly man, as one person, as the expiation for our sins, as our intercessor, saviour, 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 indited 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."

O How Amiable are Thy Dwellings (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter O How Amiable are Thy Dwellings (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R119 Discovery Miles 1 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams - Autographs, Context, Discourse (Paperback): Stephen Town The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams - Autographs, Context, Discourse (Paperback)
Stephen Town
R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams's choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams's life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician-Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period-Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)-written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster-Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the 'Old 104' Psalm Tune (1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)-typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer's life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).

Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal: - Media, Music, and Performing Arts (Paperback, New edition): Bulent... Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal: - Media, Music, and Performing Arts (Paperback, New edition)
Bulent Sezgin, Tuna Tetik, OEmer Vatanartiran
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal: Media, Music, and Performing Arts is a collection of contemporary research and interpretation that aims to discover the industrial transformation in media, music, and performing arts. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics, including film studies, narrative theory, digital streaming platforms, subscription video-on-demand services, marketing, promotional strategies of video games, distant music practices, music ecosystems, contemporary orchestras, alternative music scenes, new voice-over techniques, changing conservatory education methods, and visual arts, this manuscript of selected chapters is designed for academics, researchers, media professionals, and students who intend to enhance their understanding of transformation in media, music, and performing arts.

Holy is the true light (Sheet music, Vocal score): Gabriel Jackson Holy is the true light (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Gabriel Jackson
R119 Discovery Miles 1 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
O Albion (Sheet music): Thomas Ades O Albion (Sheet music)
Thomas Ades; Arranged by Jim Clements
R79 R73 Discovery Miles 730 Save R6 (8%) 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.

Music and the Spanish Civil War (Paperback, New edition): Gemma Perez Zalduondo, Ivan Iglesias Music and the Spanish Civil War (Paperback, New edition)
Gemma Perez Zalduondo, Ivan Iglesias
R2,025 Discovery Miles 20 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Spanish Civil War has been the most important, decisive and traumatic event in contemporary Spain, but also one of the most iconic events in the recent history of the Western world. However, musicology has not devoted a great deal of attention to the war of 1936-1939 until very recently. This volume is the first collective book dedicated to music and the Spanish Civil War. The contributions, drawn from musicologists, historians and anthropologists from Spain, Mexico, Australia, and the United States, explore the songs at the front, war soundscapes, propaganda and music policies, censorship, music in prisons, different music genres, exiled composers and critics, musical diplomacy, memory, and Spanish Civil War as a topic in contemporary music.

Quittez, Pasteurs (Sheet music, Vocal score): Stephen Cleobury Quittez, Pasteurs (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Stephen Cleobury
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
What Praise Can I Play Sunday 4 (Book): Carol Tornquist What Praise Can I Play Sunday 4 (Book)
Carol Tornquist
R307 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R62 (20%) Out of stock

What Praise Can I Play on Sunday? is a series of six books of worship favorites, each book designed for busy pianists who require accessible arrangements. Book 4 contains selections for the Fourth of July as well as several general praise songs. Titles: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Ancient Words * Blessed Be Your Name * Come to the Table * Enough * I Can Only Imagine * Let Freedom Ring * Let It Rise * Shout to the North, with My Country 'Tis of Thee * You Are My King.

A Collection Of Songs (Hardcover): Frankie L Fipps A Collection Of Songs (Hardcover)
Frankie L Fipps
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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