History of music

Luther, passion, and sensualism?

Als Diakon und Referent in der Kirchenleitung kommt der promovierte Theologe Thomas Hanstein mit vielem bis dahin Ungeahntem in Kontakt und geht deshalb auf Abstand zum Kirchendienst.

In 1893, Said Jureidini, an Arabic-speaking Christian from the Ottoman Empire, experienced an evangelical conversion while attending the Chicago World's Fair.

String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe is the first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe.

Originally published London, 1924.

Warum werden Lieder verboten oder zensiert?

Robert Johnson did not sell his soul to the devil.

Welche Art von Kirche wünschen sich Familien heute?

This present work had it's origin in two series of twelve public lectures on music as part of the general culture, given at Harvard University between 1934 and 1935.

Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today?

Der kanadische Jazzpianist Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), der am 15.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Barry Harvey provides a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ.

Potsdam war in der SED-Diktatur Sitz von Verwaltungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Standort von Militär und Staatssicherheit, aber auch von Einrichtungen der Evangelischen Kirche.

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title WinnerDrawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky.

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion.

Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable, unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in 2015.

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 balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade.

When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance.

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wann in der Reichsstadt Speyer die Reformation offiziell eingeführt wurde und der Prozess der evangelischen Konfessionsbildung einsetzte und wie bzw.

Mit der abenteuerlichen Flucht des Lutheraners Veit Bach in den religiösen Wirren des 16.

Im Gegensatz zu späterer Zeit liegt die musikalische Leitung am italienischen Opernhaus zu Beginn des 19.

»Play yourself!

Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.

Baptists have at times been tempted to dismiss liturgy as formulaic.

Musik wird seit jeher eine therapeutische Wirkung zugesprochen, die Melancholie wiederum erscheint unserer Tage als seelische Quelle künstlerischer Inspiration.

Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.

Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work.

What if there was a key that made every prayer more effective--something that would bring all prayers into agreement with the heart of God every single time?

This vintage book contains a catalogue of the rare and antique violins offered for sale by the Lyon & Healy company of Chicago in 1917.

This book studies the "e;hyperorchestra"e; as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection of practice and theory.

Peter Gülke widmet sich in 54 Essays dem großen Thema Tod und Abschied in der Musik, aber auch in der Literatur.

In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year.

This volume is a collection of sermons covering the six chief parts of Luther's Catechisms.

A devout Catholic, a visionary-and some say prophetic-writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture.

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world.

Antonio Vivaldi, bekannt als der „rote Priester“ von Venedig, war mehr als nur ein Komponist – er war ein visionärer Musiker, der die Barockmusik revolutionierte.

Um das Verhältnis der evangelischen Kirche zum KZ-System zwischen 1933 und 1945 darzustellen, untersucht Rebecca Scherf wesentliche Aspekte, die dieses Verhältnis charakterisieren: die Seelsorgetätigkeit der evangelischen Kirche, die inhaftierten Geistlichen, ihre Hafterfahrungen sowie die Reaktionen auf ihre Verhaftungen.