History of music

Martin Geck erzählt humorvoll und anschaulich mehrere Tausend Jahre Musikgeschichte.

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the YearFive hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College.

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

Originally published in 1959, this book was planned as a second contribution towards critique and apologetics of Quakerism, the first being a booklet called Friends and Truth published in 1956.

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942.

The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe.

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Eliminate the Spiritual Distance between You and GodDo you feel far from God?

What could Roman Catholicism and Mormonism possibly have to learn from each other?

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

A study of the life and works of Erik Chisholm, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Scottish music.

The role of architecture within the French Reformed tradition has been of recent scholarly interest, seen in the work of Helene Guicharnaud, Catharine Randall, Andrew Spicer, and others.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, and interaction with contemporary Russian culture.

Von den prachtvollen Höfen der Renaissance bis hin zu den glanzvollen Bühnen der Moderne – das Ballett hat eine faszinierende Reise durch die Jahrhunderte hinter sich.

Das Buch bietet einen ersten musikwissenschaftlichen Ansatz großorchestralen Jazz auf europäischer Ebene vergleichend zu analysieren und bezieht dabei historiographische sowie musikästhetische Blickwinkel ein.

Der Theologe Helmuth Schreiner (1893-1962) wurde 1931 als Vorsteher des Johannesstifts in Berlin auf den Lehrstuhl für Praktische Theologie in Rostock berufen.

In Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s, Ronald D.

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history.

Con il catalogo I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, pubblicata dal 1990 al 1994 da Bertola & Locatelli a Cuneo, Claudio Sartori ha donato alla ricerca sulla storia dell'opera e dell'oratorio una base completamente nuova.

Con il catalogo I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, pubblicata dal 1990 al 1994 da Bertola & Locatelli a Cuneo, Claudio Sartori ha donato alla ricerca sulla storia dell'opera e dell'oratorio una base completamente nuova.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Postcolonial Vietnam has an urgent need for contextualized theology of mission, God, Christ, and the church that is rooted in indigenous cultural traditions and the dual Vietnamese spirit of resistance and assimilation.

Known as the "e;Father of Festival Sound,"e; Bill Hanley (b.

Luther Refracted speaks to the currency that Luther’s life and thought continue to enjoy in today’s Christian reflection.

Die Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa (GEKE) hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend zu einer großen Bandbreite von sozialethischen Fragestellungen zu Wort gemeldet.

Die Studie stellt die Musikpflege des 18.

Der bekannte Musikkritiker Joachim Kaiser lädt ein zu einem Streifzug durch die Musikgeschichte.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Der Band nimmt die künstlerische Kooperation des Ehepaares Ruth Berghaus und Paul Dessau, zwei in der DDR ebenso exponierten wie umstrittenen Künstlerpersönlichkeiten, in den Blick.

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.

A zesty biography reassessing the Strauss family''s musical achievements within wider Habsburg society and its cultural life as a whole.

Das Augsburger Bekenntnis von 1530 hat Geschichte gemacht.

This publication follows the history of discoveries pertaining to Portuguese travel to the New World, from the 15th century to the 1920s, with an emphasis on the events leading to the development of jazz.

Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources.

The minstrelsy play, song, and dance "e;Jump, Jim Crow"e; did more than enable blackface performers to spread racist stereotypes about Black Americans.

In Debating the Sacraments, Amy Nelson Burnett brings together the foundational disputes regarding the baptism and the Lord's Supper that laid the groundwork for the development of two Protestant traditions-Lutheran and Reformed-as well as of dissenting Anabaptist movements.

Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typescript.

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A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally.

Anglican Spirituality lays out a concise vision for how Anglican Christians can become faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.