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During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to
create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing
the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the
music business. "Swingin' the Dream" explores that world, looking
at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the
nation and has kept people dancing ever since.
""Swingin' the Dream" is an intelligent, provocative study of the
big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not
merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he
places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a
plausible case for its importance."--Jonathan Yardley, "Washington
Post Book World"
"An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of
an important homegrown art form."--"Publishers Weekly"
" A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American
popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high
noon."--Tony Russell, "Times Literary Supplement"
Recognizing the need for bilingual hymnal and service materials
within Korean Presbyterian congregations, the 207th General
Assembly (1995) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mandated the
creation of a resource to meet the needs of local congregations and
to promote authentic Korean compositions and traditional Korean
tunes. This new Korean-English hymnal is now available as a worship
resource for intergenerational, bilingual, and ecumenical use.
This is an extremely thorough 4 volume guide to the regimental
march tunes and other parade music which inspired loyalty, pride
and battlefield motivation for generations of Germans over three
centuries. Built around a translation of the previously unpublished
works of two great German military music historians, the late
Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Toeche-Mittler and Lieutenant Colonel
(Retd) Werner Probst, it describes the history of every march in
the official collections sanctioned by successive kings of Prussia,
German Emperors, and later by Chief Inspectors of Music of the
German Republic and Third Reich. This work is no apology or eulogy
for a militaristic culture now long gone amongst the German people,
but a description of the international and home sources for the
march repertoire, and the personalities involved in composing,
commissioning, and dedicating marches to the leading personalities
of the age, and their adoption as regimental music by the fighting
units of Prussia and the other Old German States, Imperial Germany,
and the later German Reich and Post War Republics of East and West
Germany. The series will provide information about how the
regimental bandsmen and signaller musicians on fife, drum and bugle
paraded and performed this repertoire, the manufacture and
embellishments of their instruments, Schellenbaum 'Jingling
Johnnies' and Drum Majors' Staffs, and their employment and
deployment in the ranks of the fighting units on parade and in
battle. After a short introduction, Volume 1 concentrates on the
vast official Royal Prussian collection of'regimental' and
'neutral' quick marches. Translated from previously unpublished
original research by the late Luftwaffe Lt. Col. Joachim
Toeche-Mittler, it provides a definitive description for each
march, its composer, and how and by whom it was used, in many cases
on campaign as well as on parade. With only one exception before
1914, every Prussian, and most non-Prussian regiments, had their
regimental march from within this collection.
Why was the partridge in the pear tree? Who was Good King
Wenceslas? And what are the pagan origins behind 'The Holly and the
Ivy'? Discover the hidden stories behind our best-loved Christmas
carols, from their earliest incarnations in the Middle Ages and
their banning under the Puritans to the wassailing traditions of
the nineteenth century and the carols that united soldiers on the
Western Front during the First World War. This fascinating book
charts the history of one of Christmas' longest-running traditions
and is sure to appeal to all those who love the festive season.
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look
into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American
Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring
cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of
contemporary American congregations? What is the cantor's role in
American Jewish religious life today? Cohen follows cantorial
students at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, over
the course of their training, as they prepare to become modern
Jewish musical leaders. Opening a window on the practical, social,
and cultural aspects of aspiring to musical authority, this book
provides unusual insights into issues of musical tradition,
identity, gender, community, and high and low musical culture.
A diverse collection of seasonal organ music for manuals only,
covering the church's year from Advent to Epiphany. The pieces are
drawn internationally from across the centuries and include a
mixture of established repertoire, attractive new arrangements, and
four newly commissioned pieces. The collection is technically
accessible and provides approachable repertoire for all church
musicians, making it an attractive companion to The Oxford Book of
Christmas Organ Music.
Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements
explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and
informal music education. As in broader educational studies,
research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious
dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common
assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts
of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of
religion and belief construct and complicate the values and
practices of music education-including teacher education,
curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to
this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of
disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and
atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a
valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related
fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological
underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational
practices.
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.
In this volume fifteen musicologists from five countries present
new findings and observations concerning the production,
distribution and use of music manuscripts and prints in
seventeenth-century Europe. A special emphasis is laid on the Duben
Collection, one of the largest music collections of
seventeenth-century Europe, preserved at the Uppsala University
Library. The papers in this volume were initially presented at an
international conference at Uppsala University in September 2006,
held on the occasion of the launching of The Duben Collection
Database Catalogue on the Internet. For the first time, the entire
collection had been made acessible worldwide, covering a vast
number of musical and philological aspects of all items in the
collection.
"The Complete Book of Hymns" brings to life the stories behind more
than 600 hymns and worship songs. With background on the composer,
the inspiration behind the lyrics, scriptural references for
devotional consideration, and a sampling of the song lyrics, this
book brings forth the message of these great songs of the faith
like never before!
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