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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.
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.
This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the
best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January
1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist
Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled.
Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic:
five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success,
Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots. Her
influential minister father stood by her on the pulpit. Her mentor,
Clara Ward, sat in the pews. Franklin responded to the occasion
with the performance of her life and the resulting double album
became a multi-million seller - even without any trademark hit
singles. But that was just one part of the story. Franklin's warm
inimitable voice, virtuoso jazz-soul instrumental group and Rev.
James Cleveland's inventive choral arrangements transformed the
course of gospel. Through new interviews, musical and theological
analyses as well as archival discoveries, this book sets the scene,
traces the recording's traditional origins and pop infusions and
describes the album's enduring impact. "33 1/3" is a series of
short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from
James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the
series now contains over 60 titles and is acclaimed and loved by
fans, musicians and scholars alike. "It was only a matter of time
before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for
whom "Exile on Main Street" or "Electric Ladyland" are as
significant and worthy of study as "The Catcher in the Rye" or
"Middlemarch"...The series, which now comprises 29 titles with more
in the works, is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute
rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration." ("The
New York Times Book Review", 2006).
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 a collection of 37 of the best pieces for use at
carol services, Christmas services, and Christmas concerts. It
includes a number of exciting new pieces on established tunes (from
Andrew Carter, Gerre Hancock, and David Willcocks, among others),
as well as excellent new arrangements of popular Christmas pieces.
The definitive collection of 27 of the most popular classics of the
wedding repertoire in simplified arrangements for manuals only. All
the best-loved processionals, marches, and more reflective pieces
are included.
"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.
Tracing the connections between music making and built space in
both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and
Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual
reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater
understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed
environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression.
Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art
history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies,
and Islamic studies, the volume's contributors consider sonic
performances ranging from poetry recitation to art, folk, popular,
and ritual musics-as well as religious expressions that are not
usually labeled as "music" from an Islamic perspective-in relation
to monumental, vernacular, ephemeral, and landscape architectures;
interior design; decoration and furniture; urban planning; and
geography. Underscoring the intimate relationship between
traditional Muslim sonic performances, such as the recitation of
the Qur'an or devotional songs, and conventional Muslim
architectural spaces, from mosques and Sufi shrines to historic
aristocratic villas, gardens, and gymnasiums, the book reveals
Islam as an ideal site for investigating the relationship between
sound and architecture, which in turn proves to be an innovative
and significant angle from which to explore Muslim cultures.
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.
Cantique de Jean Racine was written in 1865 during Faure's final
year at the Ecole Niedermeyer, winning him the first prize for
composition, and this elegant work now holds a cherished place in
the choral repertory for both sacred and secular occasions.
Presented with an English singing translation in addition to the
original French, John Rutter's edition includes an accompaniment
for organ or piano, and the work may also be performed with the
transcription for harp and strings (available separately),
compatible with the instrumentation for the OUP edition of the
Faure Requiem in its 1893 version. Complete orchestral and vocal
material is available on hire/rental and on sale. In addition, an
arrangement for upper voices (SSAA) with Faure's original keyboard
accompaniment is available on sale.
As a young, up and coming electrical engineer living in England,
Ray Brooks had everything he could want a high paying job, late
nights, and fast cars. All he was missing in his life was the
meaning. A series of events brought him to Japan, where he met a
man who played the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese flute. That
fortuitous interaction motivated Brooks to embark on a journey to
learn this very difficult instrument. Through playing the
shakuhachi, he began to understand the Zen discipline that is a
crucial aspect of Japanese culture. This understanding greatly
changed his outlook on life, putting him in touch with his
authentic self. Blowing Zen s humor and its irresistible story of
cultures converging lets the underlying message come through
without preachiness: life is about finding your true calling, not
just what brings you superficial joy. Brooks spontaneous approach
to the collaboration of art, mind, body, and spirit is inspiring
and instructive. This uplifting memoir has been entrancing readers
since its release in 2000, and it is now being re-released with a
new chapter and lots of photographs. This is the expanded and
revised edition with photos.
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.
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.
Contains two versions of the vocal parts - for SATB and piano or
orchestra, or SS or SA and piano or orchestra.
Book & DVD. This book presents for the first time the complete
chant repertory of an orally transmitted repertory of church hymns
for the celebration of the Byzantine Rite in Sicily. This body of
chant has been cultivated by the Albanian-speaking minorities since
their predecessors from Albania and northern Greece arrived in
Sicily as refugees in the late fifteenth century, as a result of
the Turkish invasion of the Balkan region. Bartolomeo di Salvo
(19161986), a Basilean monk from the monastery of Grottaferrata,
prepared the transcriptions for the series Monumenta Musicae
Byzantinae in the 1950s, but they were never published. Girolamo
Garofalo, ethnomusicologist from Palermo, and Christian Troelsgard,
secretary of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Copenhagen, have
discovered the transcriptions and related documents in archives in
Sicily, Grottaferrata, Rome and Copenhagen. As a result of their
findings, this unique chant collection is now being made available
for the first time. The languages used in the book are English /
Italian (front matter and indices) and Greek (the chant texts).
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