Sacred and religious music

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself.

Jennifer Bain contextualizes the revival of Hildegard''s music, engaging with intersections amongst local devotion and political, religious, and intellectual activity.

The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times.

In this special seasonal edition, bestselling author Robert J.

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In 1714, the 29 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to the position of concertmaster at the ducal court of Weimar.

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The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages.

The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant.

Study of musical manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, opening a window on piety, liturgy and musical life in late medieval society.

The musical, social and political history of the renowned St Thomas School and ChurchIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cantors of the St.

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltn Kodly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries.

Canadian music has come of age in the twentieth century.

A new edition of the comprehensive resource linking hymns and anthems to lectionary readings.

Contains music for Holy Week, Easter, weddings and funerals.

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

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

This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms.

Winner of the 2015 Ruth A.

Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe.

This unique volume brings together wide-ranging research that could only be written by someone singularly expert in the full range of Christian worship and music from ancient to modern.

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.

In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians and local governments waged an early modern "e;war on Christmas,"e; discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of more personal and internalized expressions of piety.

Today's spiritually searching culture is less inclined than ever to attend church.

Gregory of Nazianzus, a 4th-century bishop of Constantinople, receives relatively little attention from modern Western scholars, yet he is one of the most influential theologians in the history of Christian doctrine.

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcrisacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayRobert L.

Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief.

Music is an intrinsic part of Jewish expression, reaching back to the biblical "e;Song of the Sea,"e; which appears in Exodus, and the Psalms composed by King David.

What happens when we praise God?

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself.

Since time immemorial, the response of the living to death has been to commemorate the life of the departed through ceremonies and rituals.

In einer Zeit, in der Frauen in der Musikwelt selten die Anerkennung erhielten, die ihnen gebührte, stach eine Ausnahmeperson hervor: Sophia Corri.

The award-winning, much-loved memoir of renowned author and musician Anna Goldsworthy about her first steps towards a life in music.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.

Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century.

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Many singers today perform Elizabethan and Jacobean lute-songs.

This collection of essays presents a thorough and systematic study of Bach''s B-minor Mass by leading scholars in the field.

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political rallies, concerts to churches.

Follow Christian singer/songwriter Tammy Trent as she tells of her beautiful love story turned tragic, still pointing to God as the source of all life and hope.

More than twenty years ago James Tyler wrote a modest introduction to the history, repertory, and playing techniques of the four- and five-course guitar.

The 20th century, especially the latter decades, was a time of explosive growth and importance in hymnody, and yet published material about the hymnody of this period has been scattered and difficult to come by.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

This second edition of Laster's Catalog combines in one volume the listings from the first catalog with the voluminous material that has appeared since 1973, more than doubling the number of citations.

A reexamination of the actual practice of worship that goes beyond the merely academic to provide a practical perspective through the eyes of the worship leader and the congregation.