History of music

Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before.

An engaging window into a century of musical life, as seen in the history of the Pro Arte String Quartet, first organized in 1912 and still performing today.

This book constitutes a pioneering and comprehensive text-in-context study of the translation of Christian tracts (from English into Chinese) by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China.

Der Dirigent und Musikpädagoge Hans Swarowsky hat fast sein ganzes Arbeitsleben lang auch Opernlibretti übersetzt.

In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist, inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed.

The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic.

Why did jazz go Latin?

How strongly can you hold on to your principles?

Das Cello – ein Instrument, das durch seine Tiefe und Wärme die Herzen von Musikliebhabern weltweit berührt.

Paul Wranitzky, ein Zeitgenosse von Größen wie Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven, erlebte in seiner Zeit großen Ruhm, geriet jedoch im Laufe der Geschichte fast in Vergessenheit.

Das Lutherjahrbuch ist das bedeutendste Organ der internationalen Lutherforschung und wird im Auftrag der Luther-Gesellschaft e.

In dieser Quellenstudie wird die schriftliche Überlieferung zur Ehefrau Martin Luthers ausgewertet mit dem Ziel, ein primär zeitgenössisches Bild der Lutherin zu erheben.

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time.

The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950aims to raise the status of the genre generally, and in Britain specifically, by reaffirming British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts.

Readings in Baptist History compiles four centuries of notable religious documents, from John Smyths The Character of the Beast in 1609 all the way to the 2000 revision of the Southern Baptist Conventions Baptist Faith and Message.

Exactly what does a conductor do in front of an orchestra?

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world.

Mozart ist kein Einzelfall: Ob auf der Konzertbühne, am Königshof oder in der Kuriositätenschau – musizierende »Wunderkinder« waren um 1800 in Europa allgegenwärtig.

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music.

This Companion reflects the renewed interest in Tillich''s theology and reaffirms him as a major figure in today''s theological landscape.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors.

A definitive history of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement and an intriguing reference for persons outside the movement, The Century of the Holy Spirit details the miraculous story of Pentecostal/Charismatic growth--in the U.

Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland.

Heinrich August Marschners Opern gelten musikgeschichtlich und kompositionstechnisch als "Mittler" zwischen Carl Maria von Weber und Richard Wagner; Marschners Werke galten im 19.

One of the Church of England's central aims is that it should become more diverse.

In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them.

This volume features Martin Luther the exegete and Bible teacher.

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.

Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members.

When I speak of liberal Protestants, I have in mind those Protestants who feel free to depart from classical Protestantism (the Protestantism of the Reformers) in order, as they see it, to keep Christianity in step with the best of secular wisdom--a secular wisdom that often includes attacks on Christianity.

This volume brings together philosophers, social theorists, and theologians in order to investigate the relation between future(s) of the Revolution and future(s) of the Reformation.

Die lutherischen Duale "Gesetz und Evangelium", "Glaube und gute Werke", "Alter und Neuer Bund", "Verheißung und Erfüllung" haben eine ambivalente Geschichte: Sie dienten lutherischer Theologie, Frömmigkeit und insbesondere der Predigtkultur über fast fünf Jahrhunderte als Schlüssel zum Verstehen der Vielfalt biblischer Texte.

This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musicalcultures in the Eastern Baltics Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia at the end of theCold War and in the early post-Communist period.

How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensionsin southern culture Southern History Remixedspotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States Southfrom the late nineteenthcentury to the era of rock n roll in the 1940s,50s, and 60s.

In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdams On Free Will.

Im März 1842 veranstalteten die Mitglieder des Wiener Hofopernorchesters auf Initiative und unter Leitung ihres ersten Kapellmeisters Otto Nicolai ein Konzert im Großen Redoutensaal in WIen, mit dem die Reihe der "Philharmonischen Konzerte" begann und in dessen weiterer Folge das Orchester die Bezeichnung "Philharmoniker" erhielt.

For all of its apparent simplicity a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts.

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution.

Volume 2 of The Annotated Luther series contains a number of the writings categorized under the theme Word and Faith.

This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics.

The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular society and the Church.