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Make us a channel of your peace (Sheet music, Vocal score): Bob Chilcott Make us a channel of your peace (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Bob Chilcott
R130 Discovery Miles 1 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for upper voices, SATB, and piano In this beautifully expressive setting, Bob Chilcott has adapted the Prayer of Saint Francis, with its focus on peace and unity. A semi-chorus, which may be taken from within the choir or sung by an additional upper-voice or children's choir, weaves Beethoven's iconic 'Ode to Joy' melody into the texture to create a powerful presentation of the unifying power of song.

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
R1,249 Discovery Miles 12 490 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Wind in the Willows - An entertainment based on the book by Kenneth Grahame (Sheet music, Condensed score): John Rutter The Wind in the Willows - An entertainment based on the book by Kenneth Grahame (Sheet music, Condensed score)
John Rutter
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Bach Choir: The First Hundred Years (Hardcover, New Ed): Basil Keen The Bach Choir: The First Hundred Years (Hardcover, New Ed)
Basil Keen
R2,991 Discovery Miles 29 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study of the Bach Choir provides a much-needed overview of one of the major choral societies in London. Dr Basil Keen examines the background that led to the formation of an ad hoc body to give the first performance in England of J.S. Bach's B minor Mass. The musical and organizational effects of a permanent choral society drawn from one social group are traced during the first twenty years, after such time the pressures of social change led to a complete review followed by a restructuring of the methods of recruitment and internal organization. The rebuilding of the choir at the opening of the twentieth century, the expansion of the repertoire, the upheaval resulting from the First World War and the impact of these events on preparation and performance, are all considered. The book is essentially structured around the tenure of successive Musical Directors: Otto Goldschmidt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Walford Davies, Hugh Allen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Adrian Boult, Reginald Jacques and David Willcocks, since their varied tastes and interests inevitably had a decisive influence on policy. Keen draws upon previously unpublished material, including minutes and correspondence of the Bach Choir, interviews with relatives and descendants, and examination of family records and correspondence. To date, there has been no survey of a major London choir that encompasses the full history of the organization in context. In this study, Dr Basil Keen provides a thorough examination of the Bach Choir, including the response of the choir to social changes; the influence of conductors and officials; changes in musical taste; relationships with composers and composition; major national and international events; and the effect of these matters on organization and repertoire.

Shenandoah (Sheet music, Vocal score): Bob Chilcott Shenandoah (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Bob Chilcott
R145 Discovery Miles 1 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for SATBarBarB unaccompanied Chilcott's arrangement of the popular American folksong Shenandoah is atmospheric and expressive, with the traditional melody moving seamlessly between voice parts and resting on a cushion of rich harmonies. Shenandoah has been recorded by The King's Singers on the album GOLD (Signum, SIGCD500).

Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V - The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion (Hardcover): Mary... Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V - The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion (Hardcover)
Mary Tiffany Ferer
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the mission of artists, poets, and chroniclers, who shaped contemporary perceptions of him and engaged in his political promotion. Music was equally essential to the making of his image, as this book shows. It reconstructs musical life at his court, by examining the compositions which emanated from it, the ordinances prescribing its rituals and ceremonies, and his prestigious chapel, which reflected his power and influence. A major contribution, offering new documentary material and bringing together the widely dispersed information on the music composed to mark the major events of Charles's life. It offers.a very useful insight into music as one of many elements that served to convey the notion of the emperor-monarch in the Renaissance. TESS KNIGHTON Mary Ferer is Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University.

Rejoice and be Merry (Sheet music, Set of parts): John Rutter Rejoice and be Merry (Sheet music, Set of parts)
John Rutter
R1,710 Discovery Miles 17 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Carols for Choirs 3 (Sheet music, Vocal score): David Willcocks, John Rutter Carols for Choirs 3 (Sheet music, Vocal score)
David Willcocks, John Rutter
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A third collection of 50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompaniments for piano or organ or orchestra. The carols reflect a diversity of styles and periods, while remaining within the capacity of an average group of amateur performers. Includes compositions and arrangements by Britten, Holst, Howells, Hurford, Vaughan Williams, and Walton.
Orchestral and brass accompaniments for many of the items are available on hire.

The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Sheet music, Paperback): Alan Bullard The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Sheet music, Paperback)
Alan Bullard 1
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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. Also available as a spiral-bound paperback.

With heart and hands (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter With heart and hands (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R129 Discovery Miles 1 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for SATB and organ, with optional congregation This hymn-anthem of thanksgiving begins gently and tenderly, but builds to a rousing climax. It culminates with a verse of the hymn Now thank we all our God (which may be sung by the congregation in addition to the choir), underlaid by a powerful organ part and with a soaring descant line above.

The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Spiral bound, Spiral-bound paperback):... The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems - Simple, varied anthems for the church year (Spiral bound, Spiral-bound paperback)
Alan Bullard
R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Western Plainchant in the First Millennium - Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music (Hardcover, New Ed): Sean Gallagher,... Western Plainchant in the First Millennium - Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sean Gallagher, James Haar, John Nadas, Timothy Striplin
R4,525 Discovery Miles 45 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999. A distinguished group of chant scholars examine the formation of the liturgy, issues of theory and notation, and Carolingian and post-Carolingian chant. Special studies include the origins of musical notations, nuances of early chant performance (with accompanying downloadable resources), musical style and liturgical structure in the early Divine Office, and new sources for Old-Roman chant. Western Plainchant in the First Millenium offers new information and new insights about a period of crucial importance in the growth of the liturgy and music of the Western Church.

What sweeter music (Sheet music, Full score for upper voice version): John Rutter What sweeter music (Sheet music, Full score for upper voice version)
John Rutter
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for SSA or SSS and organ or strings Originally published in a version for mixed voices, this much-loved Rutter carol has been adapted by the composer for performance by upper-voice choirs. Full scores and sets of parts, specially composed for the upper-voice version, are available on sale and on hire/rental.

Red Boots On (Sheet music, Cambiata vocal score): Bob Chilcott Red Boots On (Sheet music, Cambiata vocal score)
Bob Chilcott; Arranged by Andy Brooke
R129 Discovery Miles 1 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for CCBar, piano, and opt. alto sax Red Boots On is a funky setting of a poem by Kit Wright, brought to life by Chilcott's jazzy chords and groovy syncopated rhythms. The melody begins in unison and grows in texture throughout the piece, and is accompanied by a characterful piano part. This new arrangement for cambiata voices also includes an optional alto saxophone part. Also available in a version for upper voices and piano.

Down by the Riverside (Sheet music, Set of parts): John Rutter Down by the Riverside (Sheet music, Set of parts)
John Rutter
R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health - Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir (Hardcover): Austin C. Okigbo Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health - Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir (Hardcover)
Austin C. Okigbo
R2,373 Discovery Miles 23 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The study interrogates as to understand the bigger picture of HIV/AIDS using the approach of microanalysis of music event. It places the choir, and the cultural and political issues addressed in their music in the broader context of South Africa's public health and political history, and the global culture and politics of AIDS.

I say that we are wound with mercy (Sheet music, Vocal score): Gabriel Jackson I say that we are wound with mercy (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Gabriel Jackson
R157 Discovery Miles 1 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for SATB and organ Setting a section from The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air we Breathe by Gerard Manley Hopkins, this Marian piece opens with an extended soprano passage, underpinned by soft yet characterful organ writing. Several hallmarks of Jackson's style are evident, including soaring, melismatic soprano lines, sonorous harmonies, and repeated organ motifs. The result is a captivating and emotive work for church and concert use.

Bakhmetev to Lyapunov - Music of the Russian Court Chapel Choir II (Hardcover): Carolyn C. Dunlop Bakhmetev to Lyapunov - Music of the Russian Court Chapel Choir II (Hardcover)
Carolyn C. Dunlop
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations - From James I to Elizabeth II (Paperback): Matthias Range Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations - From James I to Elizabeth II (Paperback)
Matthias Range
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Multivocality - Singing on the Borders of Identity (Hardcover): Katherine Meizel Multivocality - Singing on the Borders of Identity (Hardcover)
Katherine Meizel
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Solo Singer in the Choral Setting - A Handbook for Achieving Vocal Health (Paperback): Margaret Olson The Solo Singer in the Choral Setting - A Handbook for Achieving Vocal Health (Paperback)
Margaret Olson; Foreword by Ingo R. Titze
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While there are many similarities between solo and choral singing, they are not the same discipline, and it is important to realize the different approaches necessary for each. In The Solo Singer in the Choral Setting: A Handbook for Achieving Vocal Health, Olson presents the unique perspective of choral singing from a soloist's viewpoint, providing a clear outline of several issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. She discusses concepts as diverse as body position in rehearsal and acoustic sound production, and she offers practical ideas for solving these challenges. Teaching examples and case studies help illustrate the problems and offer potential solutions for handling the challenges of the choral environment. After a general overview of vocal technique, the chapters address the physiological, psychological, pedagogical, acoustic, and interpretive issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. Concepts, such as phonation; resonation and timbre; approaches to diction; voice classification; choral blend; interpreting emotion; relationships among choral conductor, singer, and teacher of singing; and the use of vibrato are examined in detail. Concluding with a conversation with two choral conductors, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and index, this volume is beneficial to singers, teachers, and conductors alike.

A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works - Part I (Paperback): Jonathan D. Green A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works - Part I (Paperback)
Jonathan D. Green
R1,748 Discovery Miles 17 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The forty-nine composers represented include Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Frederick Delius, R. Nathaniel Dett, Gerald Finzi, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, Ulysses Kay, Constant Lambert, Peter Mennin, Gunther Schuller, William Schumann, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Healey Willan. Written as a field guide for conductors and anyone else involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text should prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation. Cloth edition first published in 1994.

Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland - The Choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden (Hardcover): Eric Jas Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland - The Choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden (Hardcover)
Eric Jas
R1,795 R1,684 Discovery Miles 16 840 Save R111 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Study of musical manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, opening a window on piety, liturgy and musical life in late medieval society. The musical culture of the Low Countries in the early modern period was a flourishing one, apparent beyond the big cathedrals and monasteries, and reaching down to smaller parish churches. Unfortunately, very few manuscripts containing the music have survived from the period, and what we know rests to a huge extent on six music books preserved from St Peter's Church, Leiden. This book describes the manuscripts, their provenance, history and repertory, and the zeven-getijdencollege, the ecclesiastical organisations which ordered the music books, in detail. These organisations have their roots in fifteenth-century piety, founded on the initiative of individuals and townadministrators throughout Holland, principally to ensure that prayers and Masses were said for those in the afterlife. Music, both chant and polyphony, played an important part in these commemorative practices; the volume also looks at the choristers and choirmasters, and how such services were organised. ERIC JAS is a lecturer in music at the university of Utrecht.

Do They Sound Like Bells or Like Howling Wolves? - Interferential Diaphony in Bistritsa- An Investigation into a Multi-Part... Do They Sound Like Bells or Like Howling Wolves? - Interferential Diaphony in Bistritsa- An Investigation into a Multi-Part Singing Tradition in a Middle-Western Bulgarian Village (Hardcover, New edition)
Gerald Florian Messner
R2,119 Discovery Miles 21 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study represents a thorough investigation of a polyphonic vocal village tradition in Bistritsa, Bulgaria. Outsiders describe the narrow intervals of these songs as being "maximally rough", while the singers themselves experience their performance as smooth, beautiful and pleasant. Almost identical polyphonic traditions can be found in places sometimes thousands of kilometers apart. This inquiry is carried out within a very broad and comparative context, whereby historical sources, the origin of different constituents and etymologies as well as electronic sound analysis are taken into account. The results are stunning and ever more relevant - and not just for ethnomusicologists: The babi or grannies of Bistritsa and their songs have been inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind in 2008.

Hundred Carols for Choirs (Paperback, Paperback): David Willcocks, John Rutter Hundred Carols for Choirs (Paperback, Paperback)
David Willcocks, John Rutter
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This is a selection of the best-loved carols and hymns for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter: 74 of the most popular titles from Carols for Choirs 1, 2 and 3, plus 26 titles new to the series. There are carols suitable for both sacred and secular occasions, and both accompanied and unaccompanied material. The Order of Service for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is included.

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