Sacred and religious music

Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France.

Enrich Your Christmas with the Sounds of the SeasonMusic has always been central to celebrating the coming of Christ into the world.

Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider's view of music's impact on Jewish devotion and identity.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music is the first comprehensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field.

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.

From the moment the pilgrims landed on the shores of the New World, to the dark days following September 11, songs of faith have inspired, comforted, and rallied our beloved country.

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century?

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847.

Die Trauer um Friedrich den Großen hallte weit über die Grenzen Preußens hinaus und inspirierte den begnadeten Komponisten Johann Friedrich Reichardt zu einem Werk von außergewöhnlicher Tiefe und Ausdruckskraft: der Trauer-Kantate auf den Tod des preußischen Königs.

The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "e;sermon music"e; that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener.

Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty.

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

This against-all-odds autobiography of gospel legend Kirk Franklin takes you through the life and trials of one of the most influential and bestselling artists in the music industry.

Though the monastic writings of St John Cassian have been enduringly popular, his reputation (not least as a theological author) has been seriously compromised.

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.

Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty.

Sources for 17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Eucharistic practices in the Church of Scotland are scarce, in part because each minister was free to draw up the form and content of the services he conducted.

Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "e;hymnic"e; verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now.

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century?

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How important was music to Martin Luther?

See how beauty can come after heartbreak and suffering when you allow God to wipe away your tears.

How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are its effects?

In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance.

Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders.

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

Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music, rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and identity of a major clerical center.

Die Göttinger Händel-Beiträge (GHB) erscheinen als Jahrbuch und werden im Auftrag der Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e.

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

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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.

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.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception.

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations.

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals.

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

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

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe.

The first book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era.

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power.

How important was music to Martin Luther?

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

For everyone who's read the Bible and wondered what David's harp, or Nebuchadnezzar's sackbut and cornett really were, Jeremy Montagu, retired curator of Oxford's Bate Collection of Historical Instruments, has composed an astoundingly thorough investigation and explanation of the musical instruments that pepper the pages of Western Civilization's most holy book.

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe.