History of music

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.

Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland.

Im Oktober 1529 wurde Marburg für vier Tage zum Mittelpunkt der protestantischen Welt.

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.

'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll .

Do you know what it means to be a deacon?

Passend zu Kompetent evangelisch 5 enthält Kompetent evangelisch 5 –DIGITAL Zusatzmaterial für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer für den Unterricht.

Der Dichter Hermann Bahr schrieb 1906 in seiner Wien-Monographie, dass die Stadt "im Qualm und Dunst der Vergangenheit" ächze – eine Diagnose, die auf die damals starke Präsenz von Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur verweist.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.

In dieser Festschrift werden anlässlich seines 50-jährigen Bestehens Geschichte, Themen und Herausforderungen des Kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienstes (KED) in den evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland gewürdigt.

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.

Kegeln, zechen und schmausen mit einem großen MusikerDer 200.

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.

Many students and members of the public who follow news reports on science and religion may think that Protestantism and science are in conflict.

Taking account of the significant developments in practice and thinking around the emerging church, this book will quickly establish itself as a key text for all interested in pioneer ministry, fresh expressions, church planting, church growth and ecclesiology.

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance.

Nach der deutschen Teilung war die gemeinsame Ausbildung von ost- und westdeutschen Diakonenschülern in Berlin unmöglich geworden.

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound.

Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Unter den Ausgaben für Ensemble- und Ergänzungsfächer des VdM ist der neue Lehrplan "Musiktheorie und Komposition" erschienen.

Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments.

Examines the genesis of Ernest Newman's major publications in the context of prevailing intellectual trends in history, criticism and biography.

In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "e;reforming"e; the Roman church.

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others.

Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century.

Als promovierter Jurist, bewandert in Kunstgeschichte und Literatur, gehört der Musikschriftsteller August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876) zu den typischen Universalgeistern des 19.

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography.

In dieser Untersuchung wird an einem der Protagonisten des Sozialen Protestantismus, Johannes Herz, evangelisch-soziales Handeln im 20.

A brief, narrative survey of the Baptists in North America over the last three and a half centuries, from their roots in Europe to their present manifestations in contemporary America and the world.

You Were Created to Know the Shepherd's Voice--and Speak His Words to the WorldThis is a pivotal time in the Body of Christ: As the world tumbles into darkness, credibility issues have arisen within the prophetic movement, causing believers to be disillusioned, frustrated and unsure whom to trust.

Sigismund Thalberg, ein Name, der in der Welt der klassischen Musik unauslöschliche Spuren hinterlassen hat.

Die Ausstellung im Exilarte Zentrum der mdw zeigt die verschiedenen Lebensabschnitte eines der größten Violinvirtuosen des 20.

The way forward requires both old ways and new ways!

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Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's Marche militaire no.