History of music

Presents thirteen studies that engage with the notion of formal function in a variety of waysAmong the more striking developments in contemporary North American music theory is the renewed centrality of issues of musical form (Formenlehre).

Jazz is a music born in the United States and formed by a combination of influences.

Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) revolutionierte die Welt der klassischen Musik und stellte den Kontrabass in ein neues Licht.

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How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America?

A musician's vocabulary needs more than Do, Re, Mi.

Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon waynot as Reformer or theologian but as pastor.

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "e;government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln.

This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and associated urban stakeholders.

Drawing on the resources of five other volumes in the series, Transforming Vestries creates a single source designed specifically for this governing body.

Since the disintegration of the USSR many Russian Baptists have actively engaged in evangelism, church planting, and acts of social service.

With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant.

The Reformation of the 16th century was a complex and multifaceted political, social, cultural, and religious process.

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time.

This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways.

This volume presents fifteen musicological perspectives on the creativity of women composers and the question of 'femininity' in Southeastern-European musical cultures from 1918 on.

Der Orpheus-Mythos gehört zu den wirkungsgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Mythen der Antike.

Die öffentliche Sorge für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung hat in der Covid-19-Pandemie von neuem ihre Relevanz und ihre Probleme gezeigt.

Wilhelm Loehe is one of the most significant nineteenth-century figures for North American church life and mission, whose influence continues into the present.

Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "e;Old Elizabeth,"e; an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 - these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.

1522 hielt Martin Luther in der Schlosskirche zu Weimar zwei Predigten, aus denen seine Schrift "Von weltlicher Obrigkeit" (1523) hervorging.

This volume is dedicated to "e;Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe"e;, especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual of repraesentatio maiestatis.

John Lee "e;Sonny Boy"e; Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s.

Durch das Evangelium tritt die Kirche als "congregatio sanctorum", als Versammlung der Heiligen, in die Geschichte.

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Richard Wagner hat die Musikgeschichte stärker beeinflußt als irgendein Komponist seines Jahrhunderts.

Why does the church worship as it does?

Der Sammelband denkt erstmals die drei Kategorien Musik, Gender und Mobilität zusammen.

With the Assemblies of God now over a century old, this book takes a fresh look at critical issues in the AG's origins.

"Die Zauberflöte" ist die meistgespielte Oper weltweit.

The eighteenth-century English minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life, debating noteworthy contemporaries such as Thomas Paine and contributing to the pioneering international work of William Carey.

This volume critically examines the phenomenon of "e;English fever"e; in South Korea from both micro- and macro-perspectives.

At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W.

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca.

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We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

Romeo und Julia unter den Brücken von New YorkRund 350 Jahre nach Shakespeares Tragödie "Romeo and Juliet" fanden vier amerikanische Bühnenkünstler zusammen, um aus der Renaissance-Vorlage ein aktuelles Zeitstück zu formen.

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history.

Die biblischen Lesungen sind unverzichtbarer Bestandteil eines jeden Gottesdienstes.

Over the past half century, there has been a proliferation of scholarship on the great American theologian Jonathan Edwards.

Die Instrumente von Antonio Stradivari zählen zu den teuersten und begehrtesten der Welt.

Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley's key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally.

This book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India.

This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth century women composers.

Den überkonfessionellen und weltweiten Trend der Praise-and-Worship-Music greift der Theologe Andreas Scheuermann in dieser wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung auf und zeigt Chancen und auch Gefahren.