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A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in
Vermont known for its folk-inspired music. Far from being a
long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is
instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in
religious life. Benedictine monks gather for communal prayer
upwards of five times per day, every day. Their prayers, called the
Divine Office, are almost entirely sung. Benedictines are famous
for Gregorian Chant, but the original folk-inspired music of the
monks of Weston Priory in Vermont is among the most familiar in
post-Vatican II American Catholicism. Using the ethnomusicological
methods of fieldwork and taking inspiration from the monks' own way
of encountering the world, this book offers a contemplative
engagement with music, prayer, and everyday life. The rich
narrative evokes the rhythms of learning among Benedictines to show
how monastic ways of being, knowing, and musicking resonate with
humanistic inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson
Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in
the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced
by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so
intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distils
the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's greatest
living interpreters. Explaining in wonderful detail how Bach worked
and how his music achieves its effects, he also takes us as deeply
into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a
unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.
The most popular and powerful praise songs are represented in this
outstanding collection The piano arrangements closely follow what's
played on each song's iconic original recording, giving the pianist
an authentic experience while providing a true accompaniment to
sing along to. Whether in church, at a ceremony or by living room
piano, this book offers wonderful songs to inspire yourself and
others. Basic guitar chord grids are included for optional guitar
accompaniment. Titles: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) *
Blessings * 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) * God's Not Dead (Like
a Lion) * How Beautiful * How Great Is Our God * How He Loves * I
Can Only Imagine * In Christ Alone (My Hope Is Found) * Shout to
the Lord * Mighty to Save * Need You Now (How Many Times) * One
Thing Remains (Your Love Never Fails) * The Prayer * Revelation
Song * You Raise Me Up.
The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black
gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped
that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging
American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to
Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie
Hummingbirds shows how, in a career spanning more than nine
decades, they pointed the way from pure a cappella harmony to
guitar-driven soul to pop-stardom crossover, collaborating with
artists like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon along the way. Drawing on
interviews with founding and quintessential members as well as many
of the pop luminaries influenced by the Hummingbirds, author Jerry
Zolten tells their story from rising up and out of the segregated
South in the twenties and thirties to success on Philadelphia radio
and the New York City stage in the forties to grueling tours in the
fifties and over the long haul a brilliant recording career that
carried well over into the 21st century. The story of the Dixie
Hummingbirds is a tale of determined young men who navigated the
troubled waters of racial division and the cutthroat business of
music on the strength of raw talent, vision, character, and
perseverance, and made an indelible name for themselves in American
cultural history. This heavily edited 2nd edition features brand
new photographs, expanded historical context, and a full new
chapter on the Hummigbirds' trajectory up to the 21st century.
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.
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