History of music

Basic Elements of Music introduces readers to a wide range of knowledge essential for a well-rounded understanding of music.

This volume provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and his writings.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century.

This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis.

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music.

What if our inherited theologies of salvation are distorted by a sinful history that includes white supremacy, slavery, and colonial conquest?

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

This book examines the social, political and religious relationships between Calvinists and Catholics during Holland''s Golden Age.

This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach that will delight any pianist.

Basic Elements of Music introduces readers to a wide range of knowledge essential for a well-rounded understanding of music.

Today's social and political climate often pits conservative or traditional Christianity against "e;progressive"e; Christianity.

In einer Zeit, in der Frauen in der Musikwelt selten die Anerkennung erhielten, die ihnen gebührte, stach eine Ausnahmeperson hervor: Sophia Corri.

Mike Svoboda hat zur "e;Spieltechnik der Posaune"e; ein Buch geschrieben, das als wertvoller Begleiter fur Komponisten und Posaunisten gedacht ist.

Since its composition and first performance in 1724, Bach's St.

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This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "e;long nineteenth century.

Voll Zuversicht trat Hermann Gäbler in die Leipziger Mission ein und brachte rückhaltlos ein Vierteljahrhundert lang all seine Kraft in diese Lebensarbeit ein, an deren ungebrochenem Erfolg er zuletzt aber Zweifel hatte.

Neoliberalism is the reigning, overarching spirit of our age.

Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.

A balanced, accessible commentary for Spirit-filled ChristiansThe Spirit who inspired the authors of the New Testament is at work today around the globe, as evidenced by the explosive growth of pentecostal, charismatic, and renewalist movements; the number of adherents is now estimated at more than half a billion.

The powers of death are closer than we thought.

Contradicting the widely held but false belief that all Latinos are Catholic, this book offers a concise one-volume introduction to America's Latino Protestants, the fastest growing segment of U.

Genesis is one of the most successful British rock bands, hands down.

The story of Lutherans in America is one of mutual influence.

The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship.

Erstmals in der Geschichte ihrer seit über fünf Jahrzehnten geführten bilateralen Dialoge zwischen Orthodoxie und Protestantismus behandeln beide Delegationen die Rolle und das Verständnis der Bilder in der Frömmigkeit beider Kirchen.

St Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) is regarded as one of the most significant figures in Byzantine mysticism.

A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd.

During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre.

Wie viele Kinder und Jugendliche erreichen Jugendarbeit, Kindergottesdienst, Konfirmandenarbeit und Kirchenmusik?

Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.

In Pforzheim bestand zwischen 1776 und 1804 ein am Pädagogium angeschlossener Musikzug, in dem Geige, Flöte und Ensemblespiel gelehrt wurden.

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off.

In the intercessions, the assembly asks God to respond to the needs of the whole world.

The introduction of Common Worship services in the Church of England has gone remarkably smoothly, considering the immensity of the task.

The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will.

This book illuminates the concept of disaster communities through a series of international case studies.

In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy.

The Baptist Way is an introduction to the principles that distinguish Baptists from other Christians.

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Making Money, Making Musicoffers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business.