Wer sich mit der Interpretation von Musik aus vergangenen Zeiten befassen möchte, kommt an der historischen Aufführungspraxis nicht vorbei: Vor der Verwirklichung eigener Ideen steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den Konventionen, die für die jeweilige Musik Gültigkeit haben.
Eine lebendige Gesamtdarstellung des "größten und gelungensten" Werkes Beethovens, bei der die persönliche Suche nach dem ungreifbaren Gott und die "Bitte um innern und äußern Frieden" (Beethoven) hörbar und erkennbar wird.
The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it.
Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings will be an essential reference resource for church musicians, pastors, and others who help plan assembly song.
Jeff Slaughter is known throughout the world for both his amazing passion in worship leadership and his awe-inspiring lyrics, estimated to have been sung by forty-six million children worldwide.
Richard Wagner is mainly known as a music dramatist, but his piano pieces are also worth discovering and allow the voice of the dramatist to be heard in echoes.
Romantische Musik dominiert unser Konzertrepertoire, umgibt uns mit ihren zum kitschigen Klischee heruntergekommenen Ausdrucksmitteln allgegenwärtig in Pop- und Filmmusik und lebt fort in den Institutionen unseres Musiklebens, die maßgeblich auf das 19.
Desde la musicología se han realizado importantes análisis sobre los papeles de música que se encuentran en los repositorios parroquiales de los antiguos «pueblos de indios» (así llamados por los españoles); sin embargo, los autores que han escrito sobre la realidad de los habitantes originarios posterior a la conquista sólo exponen de manera tangencial la participación de sus cantores e instrumentistas en el mundo musical novohispano.
"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.
The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology, cultural analysis, and sociology.
The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology, cultural analysis, and sociology.
In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon.
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.
Bestselling author Joni Eareckson Tada invites families to rediscover some of the Christian faith's most beloved songs and draws out powerful truths from the music that has inspired generations of believers.
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.
An eye-opening reexamination of Handel’s beloved religious oratorio Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio’s anti-Judaic message.
In the third volume of his bestselling series, Pastor Robert Morgan expands his material to include the great history of worship, the first biblical hymns, biographical sketches of the most interesting composers, and almost 60 generations of hymn singing.
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.
First Love defines a time in western Christianity when the hippie culture birthed one of the greatest moves of Gods love America has seen since the Great Awakening.
This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois.
Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody.
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.
En este libro, el pastor Jorge Lozano, quien nació en México y vive en Argentina desde hace más de 20 años, nos enseña cómo acercarnos más a la persona de Jesús para experimentar Su abrazo y ser cambiados para siempre.
Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings will be an essential reference resource for church musicians, pastors, and others who help plan assembly song.
Descubre "Canten señores cantores: 150 melodías del Cancioner tradicional (Tomo I) infantes y niños", una recopilación única de canciones tradicionales infantiles.
In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarn Lind examines the musical revival of Greek Orthodox chant at the monastery of Vatopaidi within the monastic society of Mount Athos, Greece.
