Sacred and religious music

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States.

Our Hymns, Our Heritage encourages a love and appreciation for the church's hymns—a significant way to pass the Christian faith from generation to generation.

Brahms löste sich von vielem, als er "Ein deutsches Requiem" schrieb: von der traditionellen liturgischen Form, vom üblichen lateinischen Text, von der inhaltlichen Ausrichtung der Missa pro defunctis.

Augustine's dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice) is, with his Confessions and City of God, one of his most important and widely read works.

When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Antoinette, originally composed in 1906.

In seinen ersten Leipziger Amtsjahren komponierte Johann Sebastian Bach fast wöchentlich eine neue Kantate: Auf diese Weise bildete er einen Werkfundus, auf den er in den Folgejahren zurückgreifen konnte.

This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present.

Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "e;reading"e; Torah among contemporary American Jews.

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

Sie sitzt auf dem Boden bei obdachlosen Menschen, besucht Geflüchtete in Zeltstädten, singt in Gefängnissen, öffnet ihr Zuhause und vor allem ihr Herz, um anderen Heimat und Liebe zu schenken.

Behind the glamour and the crowds.

In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, ein Name, der in den Salons Europas einst glanzvoll widerhallte, steht heute im Schatten der großen Wiener Klassik.

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio.

This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture.

Michael Alan Anderson explores the political implications of music devoted to St Anne in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

In this special seasonal edition, bestselling author Robert J.

Sacred music traditions vary profoundly from one religion to the next.

A classic Swedish Christmas carol composed by Emil Sjogren, originally published in 1892.

Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking Rexplores a diverse range of Christian musical activity through the conceptual lens of resonance, a concept rooted in the physical, vibrational, and sonic realm that carries with it an expansive ability to simultaneously describe personal, social, and spiritual realities.

A compilation of various songs translated to English from various languages, mainly Norwegian, but also some Swedish, French, Croatian and Serbian, plus, plus.

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

In 2014, when the Russian-Latvian radio talk-show host Alex Dubas started asking his celebrity guests to describe a personal "e;moment of happiness"e; in their lives, the results were unexpectedly frank and exhilarating.

At the age of four or five, a young boy made his way to the piano in his Chicago home and picked out a recognizable tune.

Range presents an in-depth study of the music within the ceremonial at British coronations from 1603 to the present.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Die Liederkunde bietet hymnologisch und theologisch fundierte Kommentare zu Text und Musik von verschiedenen Liedern aus dem Evangelischen Gesangbuch.

A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.

Groundbreaking case studies mapping the rhetoric inherent in acts of presentation and concealmentRhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity.

An Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G.

Zum Reformationsjubiläum 2017:Lutherische Kirchenmusik ist ein Kernstück der westlichen Kultur.

Internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

"e;The practical necessity of being preserved and handed on by word of mouth only, must be constantly borne in mind in considering the development of Indian verse forms.

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This vintage book contains the sheet music and lyrics for a variety of traditional British dances, including country dances, Morris dances, jigs, reels, and more.

Brings new insights to the study of the religious function of memoryWhy do religious communities remember some events and not others?

A study of the strategies by which sacred music and liturgy was used to legitimate Louis XIII''s power.

This volume examines musical culture both inside and outside seventeenth-century Sienese convents.

A historical and theological re-evaluation of the polemical writings of Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-73), who would become known to later Christian generations as a saint and a champion of orthodoxy, and as the defender of the original Nicene Creed of 325 against the `Arian heresy'.

Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings will be an essential reference resource for church musicians, pastors, and others who help plan assembly song.

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

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