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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!
"For the Time Being" is a pivotal book in the career of one of
the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had
recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom
he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and
intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his
childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and
his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this
period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to
write a poem about Christmas and to have it set to music by his
friend Benjamin Britten. Applying for a Guggenheim grant, Auden
explained that he understood the difficulty of writing something
vivid and distinctive about that most cliched of subjects, but
welcomed the challenge. In the end, the poem proved too long and
complex to be set by Britten, but in it we have a remarkably
ambitious and poetically rich attempt to see Christmas in double
focus: as a moment in the history of the Roman Empire and of
Judaism, and as an ever-new and always contemporary event for the
believer. "For the Time Being" is Auden's only explicitly religious
long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into
the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition
provides the most accurate text of the poem, a detailed
introduction by Alan Jacobs that explains its themes and sets the
poem in its proper contexts, and thorough annotations of its
references and allusions."
Book of Common Prayer, French Language edition. (736 pp)
Survey of an important period in the development of the choral
tradition in the Anglican church. When Bernarr Rainbow was director
of music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, he came
across the 1849 diary of service music of Thomas Helmore.
Astonished at its breadth of repertoire, he was inspired to
investigate the circumstances of the document. His findings are
recorded in this book, which sets Thomas Helmore's contribution in
perspective against the background of the Choral Revival as a
whole. In tracing the history of the remarkable revival of care for
the music of the liturgy, the author produced a socio-musical
history of a period vital in the evolution of the Anglican Church,
and made clear, probably for the first time, how music in the
Anglican Churchcame to follow lines which are unique in
Christendom. His book was originally published at a time of
important changes in ecclesiastical thinking; his presentation of
the decisions taken in the past which led to the existing
relationship between choirs and congregations, interesting in
itself, is also valuable in the continuing debate.
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the
first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed
at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the
sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and
the last two Scottish coronations. Range describes how music played
a crucial role at the coronations and how the practical
requirements of the ceremonial proceedings affected its structure
and performance. The programme of music at each coronation is
reconstructed, accompanied by a wealth of transcriptions of newly
discovered primary source material, revealing findings that lead to
fresh conclusions about performance practices. The coronation
ceremonies are placed in their historical context, including the
political background and the concept of invented traditions. The
study is an invaluable resource not only for musicologists and
historians, but also for performers, providing a fascinating
insight into the greatest of all Royal events.
How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in
South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts,
devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features
of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own
musical careers. The Politics of Musical Time traces a lineage of
singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kirtan in the
Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the
shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing
on padabali kirtan, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses
long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, Eben Graves
examines how expressions of religious affect and political
belonging linked with the genre become strained in contemporary,
shortened performance time frames. To illustrate the political
economy of performance in South Asia, Graves also explores how
religious performances and texts interact with issues of
nationalism, gender, and economic exchange. Combining ethnography,
history, and performance analysis, including videos from the
author's fieldwork, The Politics of Musical Time reveals how ideas
about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested
through features of musical time found in devotional performance.
This is the standard Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and Administration
of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church
together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to use in
the Episcopal Church in the United States as authorized in 1979.
Included is the normative edition of The Hymnal 1982 for all who
sing -choir and congregation alike -containing all hymns and
service music. Genuine leather, gold edges, ribbon markers, gift
box. IMPRINTABLE BUT NOT BY PUBLISHER"
Hits from the most popular Christian songwriters---Michael Frye,
Tim Hughes, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, and many others---are paired
with favorite hymns as tasteful, contemporary medleys. These easy
piano arrangements feature lyrics, suggested fingerings, phrasing,
pedal markings, and easy-to-read notation. Titles: Beautiful One,
with O Come, All Ye Faithful * Blessed Be Your Name, with At the
Name of Jesus * Here I Am to Worship, with O Worship the King * How
Deep the Father's Love for Us, with I Stand Amazed in the Presence
* How Great Is Our God, with Praise to the Lord, the Almighty * How
Great Thou Art, with God of Wonders * It Is Well with My Soul, with
Be the Centre * Jesus Paid It All, with The Wonderful Cross *
Majesty (Here I Am), with Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise * On
Eagle's Wings, with Be Thou My Vision * The Risen Christ, with
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today * Softly and Tenderly, with Draw Me
Close * 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, with In Christ Alone.
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