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Serenissima Music Regina Coeli, K.276 / 321b: Vocal score
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Serenissima Music Te Deum, K.141 / 66b: Vocal score
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Oxford University Press The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Book SynopsisLeading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what this legendary lost gospel contains and why it is so important for our understanding of Christianity.Ehrman describes how he first saw the Gospel of Judas--surprisingly, in a small room above a pizza parlor in a Swiss town near Lake Geneva--and he recounts the fascinating story of where and how this ancient papyrus document was discovered, how it moved around among antiquities dealers in Egypt, the United States, and Switzerland, and how it came to be restored and translated. More important, Ehrman gives the reader a complete and clear account of what the book teaches and he shows how it relates to other Gospel texts--both those inside the New Testament and those outside of it, most notably, the Gnostic texts of early Christianity. Finally, he describes what we now can say about the historical Judas himself as well as his relationship with JeTrade ReviewWell judged and informative. * Church Times *Bart Ehrman offers a sane and sensible introduction to a text that has been the subject of wild claims in the media...A clear account. * Rev David Blatherwick, Methodist Recorder *Rigorous and informed. * Edward Norman, Literary Review *Bart D Ehrman explains the status of this manuscript with cool-headed clarity. * Boyd Tonkin, The Independent *
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Oxford University Press DISSENTING PRAISE C Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Milton Music and Literary Interpretation Reading through the Spirit Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted
Book SynopsisThis book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment. It is a direct outcome of a practice-led research project, led by Professor John Harper and undertaken at Bangor University between 2010 and 2013 in partnership with Salisbury Cathedral and St Fagans National History Museum, near Cardiff. The book seeks to address the complex of ritual, devotional, musical, physical and architectural elements that constitute medieval Latin liturgy, whose interaction can be so difficult to recover other than through practice. In contrast with previous studies of reconstructed liturgies, enactment was not the exclusive end-goal of the project; rather it has created a new set of data for interpretation and further enquiry. Though based on a foundation of historical, musicological, textual, architectural and archaeological research, new methods of investigation and interpretation are explored, tested and validated throughoutTrade Review"…a valuable overview of the logistics of medieval worship and of the ways that it may have been experienced by participants, both clergy and laity". Madeleine Gray, University of South Wales, in Archaeologia Cambrensis."This book is as strong in describing the research methods used as in the detailed information that it presents. (...) This volume is highly specialised, but can be recommended to anyone interested in music and liturgy and the world of the late medieval Church in England and Wales." - Robert Manning, The Consort Early Music Journal, vol.73, Summer 2017"This substantial book is beautifully produced with numerous colour and black-and-white photographs and is very comprehensive. It fills a large gap in our knowledge." - Peter Freeman, Anglo-Catholic History Society Table of ContentsIntroduction John HarperPart 1: Investigating the Experience of Late Medieval Worship in Medieval Church Buildings 1. Investigating the Experience of Late Medieval Worship John Harper2. Enacting Late Medieval Worship: Locations, Processes and Outcomes John HarperPart 2: Past Evidence and Present Realisation3. The Church of St Teilo, Llandeilo Tal-y-bont – A Moving Story Gerallt Nash4. Clothing the Space: Making and Using the Artefacts and Vestments Sally Harper5. A New Pre-Reformation Organ for the Church of St Teilo Dominic Gwynn6. Establishing a Liturgical ‘Text’: Text for Performance, Performance as Text Matthew Cheung Salisbury7. How Did They Do Liturgy? Preparing Late Medieval Text for Modern Enactment Sally Harper and John Harper8. Quadring Cows: Resourcing Music in the Pre-Reformation Parish Magnus WilliamsonPart 3: Historical Foundations – Three Case Studies 9. The Reform of the Choir of Salisbury Cathedral, c.1450–1549 Roger Bowers10. The Musical Knowledge and Practice of Expert Tudor Descanters Jane Flynn11. The Holy Name of Jesus: A Literate Cult? Judith AvelingPart 4: Medieval Liturgy and Modern Enactment 12. The Nature of Late Medieval Worship: The Mass P. S. Barnwell13. The Celebrant Reflects: Theological and Spiritual Priorities expressed through Sarum Use Jeremy Davies14. Enabling the Ritual: Aspects of the Experience of Assisting Clergy, Servers, Singers and Organ-Player John Harper15. How to do Without Rubrics: Experiments in Reconstructing Medieval Lay Experience P. S. Barnwell 16. Reflections on the Enactments: Voices from the Nave Keith Beasley, Judith Aveling and John Francis MossPart 5: Reflecting on Present Experience of Past Rituals 17. Reconciling the Historical and the Contemporary in Liturgical Enactment Nils Holger Petersen18. The Ritual Enactments: Historical Validity, Measurable Outcomes, Experience and Engagement John Harper19. Enactment and the Study of Late Medieval Liturgy John HarperAppendicesA.1 Summary Narrative of Mass of the Day in ChoirA.2 Summary narrative of simple sung Mass with priest, server and singersA.3 Plan of Salisbury CathedralA.4 Plan of St Teilo’s Church.BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Music and Spirituality
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Taylor & Francis Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
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Taylor & Francis Thomas Tallis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music and Transcendence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music and Performance in the Book of Hours
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Taylor & Francis Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
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Taylor & Francis Singing the Gospel along Scotlands NorthEast Coast 18592009
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Taylor & Francis Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sufism Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis Ltd chantandnotationinsouthitalyandromebefore1300edite
Book SynopsisThe fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, edited by John Boe in collaboration with Alejandro Planchart. In the present essays, clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the Mass (especially when derived from paraliturgical hymns and poems), certain aspects of chant notation and particular facets of the old Beneventan and the old Roman chant repertories are examined in relation to the three main cultic centres of the Italian south - Benevento, Montecassino and Rome - and as they relate to their European context, namely Frankish and Norman chant and the varieties of chant sung in Italy north of Rome. The volume includes one previously unpublished study, on the Roman introit Salus Populi.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; A new source for Old Beneventan chant: the Santa Sophia Maundy in MS Ottoboni lat 145; Old Beneventan chant at Montecassino: Gloriosus confessor Domini Benedictus; The neumes and Pater Noster chant of Montecassino codex 426; The Frankish Pater Noster chant: tradition and anaphoral context; Gloria A and the Roman Easter vigil ordinary; The Beneventan apostrophus in South Italian notation, A.D. 1000-1100; The 'lost' palimpsest kyries in the Vatican Manuscript Urbinus latinus 602; Hymns and poems at mass in 11th-century Southern Italy (other than sequences); Italian and Roman verses for kyrie leyson in the MSS Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana 74 and Vaticanus latinus 5319; Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly, The Beneventan Chant; Chant notation in 11th-century Roman manuscripts; Music notation in Archivo San Pietro C105 and in the Farfa breviary, Chigi C.VI.177; The Roman introit Salus populi; The Roman Missa sponsalicia; Deus Israel and Roman introits; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England John Merbecke the Orator and The Booke of Common Praier Noted 1550 St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Church Polyphony
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutional Patronage in PostTridentine Rome Music at Santissima Trinit dei Pellegrini 15501650 Royal Musical Association Monographs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Congregational MusicMaking and Community in a
Book SynopsisCongregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become 'lived theology' in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experienTrade Review’A valuable collection that throws new light on how new media technologies are interacting with the practices of Christian music-making, music-leadership and music-participation in congregational settings. It provides significant insights also into how these wider processes of cultural mediation taken up in congregational music are provoking a wider re-thinking and re-formation of Christian communities, beliefs and identity.’ Peter Horsfield, RMIT University, Australia ’Huge changes have occurred in Christian worship in the last fifty years. In the study of new and contemporary forms of worship, where would we be without the musicologists? Offering penetrating studies of contemporary changes, this volume is another welcome addition contributing to the study of Christian worship.’ Lester Ruth, Duke University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Worship Music as Media Form and Mediated Practice: Theorizing the Intersections of Media, Music and Lived ReligionPart 1. Technology, Place and Practice 1. Music as a Mediated Object, Music as a Medium: Towards a Media Ecological View of Congregational Music2. Music, Ritual and Media in Charismatic Religious Experience in Ghana3. Panoptic or Pastoral Gaze? The Worship Leader in the New Media Environment4. Who Gets to Sing in the Kingdom? Part 2. Community Creation 5. ‘This is a Chance to Come Together’: Subcultural Resistance and Community at Cornerstone Festival 6. ‘Through Every Land, By Every Tongue’: Diasporic and National Consciousness Among a Transnational Community of Sacred Harp Singers 7. YouTube: The New Mediator of Christian Community 8. Belonging, Integration and Tradition: Mediating Romani Identity Through Pentecostal Praise & Worship MusicPart 3. Embodied Sonic Theologies9. On the Inherent Contradiction in Worship Music10. ‘Yet to Come’ or ‘Still to Be Done’?: Evangelical Worship and the Power of ‘Prophetic’ Songs11. Happiness and Music: Salvific Practice in a Feelgood Age12. The Dance + Pray Worship Experience in Finland: Negotiating the Transcendent and Transgressive in Search of Alternative Sensational Forms and Affective SpaceAfterword: Of Animatrons and Eschatology: Congregational Music, Mediation and World-Making
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Worship Music and Everyday Musical
Book SynopsisWhilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals' musical lives away from a Contemporary Worship Music environment and their diverse experiences of music within it, presenting important insights into the complex and sometimes contradictory relationships between congregants' musical lives within and outside of religious worship. Through detailed ethnographic investigation Porter challenges common evangelical ideals of musical neutrality, suggesting the importance of considering musical tastes and preferences through an ethical lens. He employs cosmopolitanism as an interpretative framework for understanding the dynamics of diverse musical communities, positioning it as a stronger alternative to common assimilationist and multiculturalist modeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction – The Quest to Understand Diverse Musical ExperiencesChapter 1: Setting the SceneChapter 2: Music, Attachment, Ethics and CommunityChapter 3: Bridging Worlds Through Common Modes of Being in MusicChapter 4: Boundaries – Communal and Private, Spiritual and SecularChapter 5: At the Edges – Value Transfer, Judgments, DiscontentChapter 6: Alternative Musical SpacesConclusionAppendix A: Morning Service Repertoire List – January 2012 Appendix B: Worship Team Agreement 2013/14BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gods Song and Musics Meanings
Book SynopsisTaking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology, and liturgical studies. The public making of music in our society happens more often in the context of chapels, churches, and cathedrals than anywhere else. The command to sing and make music to God makes music an essential part of the DNA of Christian worship. The book's three main parts address questions about the history, the performative contexts, and the nature of music. Its opening four chapters traces how accounts of music and its relation to God, the cosmos, and the human person have changed dramatically through Western history, from the patristic period through medieval, Reformation and modern times. A second section examines the role of music in worship, and asks whatif anythingmakes a piece of music suitable for religious use. The final paTable of ContentsPreface, Vernon White Part 1: The Meanings of Music in Western History 1 Mellifluous Music in Early Western Christianity, Carol Harrison 2 ‘We Prefer Gods We Can See’: Music’s Mediations Between Seen Things and God in the Patristic and Medieval Periods, Nancy van Deusen 3 Hearing Revelation: Music and Theology in the Reformation, Jonathan Arnold 4 Music, Atheism, and Modernity: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Theological Construction of the Self, Gareth Wilson Part 2: The Work of Worship and the Meanings of Music 5 The worship of God and the quest of the Spirit: ‘Contemporary’ versus ‘Traditional’ Church Music, Gordon Graham 6 Musical Promiscuity: Can the Same Music Serve Sacred and Profane Ends Equally Well? Lucy Winkett 7 Mixing their Musick: Worship, Music, and Christian Communities, James Hawkey Part 3: The Meanings of Music and the Mystery of God 8 The Malleable Meanings of Music, John Butt 9 The Material, the Moral and the Mysterious: Three Dimensions of Music, Ben Quash 10 Absolute Music / Absolute Worship, Daniel K.L. Chua 11 Afterword, Jeremy S. Begbie
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Cambridge University Press Ritual Meanings in the FifteenthCentury Motet
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Cambridge University Press Mozarts Requiem Reception Work Completion Music in Context
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Cambridge University Press Verdi Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Handels Oratorios and EighteenthCentury Thought
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Cambridge University Press Brahms A German Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Britten War Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Britten War Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Monteverdi Vespers 1610 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Monteverdi Vespers 1610 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution and transformation of the Latin-texted motet during the lifetime of the leading composer of the age, Guillaume Du Fay. The book includes an account of internal and external forces that influenced the transformation of the motet and of fifteenth-century music more generally.Trade Review' … a marvellous lesson in how to appreciate what remains for most modern music lovers an unfamiliar form.' BBC Music Magazine'Cumming has provided us with a highly useful and workable map of stylistic change for the motet.' The Times Literary Supplement' … Cumming writes extremely clearly and is an excellent guide.' The SingerTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Models and Methods: 1. Approaches and analogies; 2. Subgenre, interpretation, and the generic repertoire; 3. Fifteenth-century uses of the term 'motet'; Part II. Motets in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna Q15: 4. The motet section of Bologna Q15 and its ramifying roots; 5. A new hybrid subgenre: the cut-circle motet; 6. Other new hybrid subgenres; 7. The motet in the early fifteenth century: evolution and interpretation; Part III. Motets in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Trent Codices: 8. Motets in the Trent codices: establishing the boundaries; 9. English and continental cantilena-style motets; 10. Motets with a tenor cantus firmus c. 1430–1450; 11. Freely composed four-voice writing in transition; 12. The four-voice motet c. 1450–1475.
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Cambridge University Press Tippett A Child of our Time Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Tippett A Child of Our Time Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press J. S. Bach and the German Motet
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Cambridge University Press George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture
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Cambridge University Press Mendelssohn and the Genesis of the Protestant A Cappella Movement
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Cambridge University Press Women and Music in SixteenthCentury Ferrara
Book SynopsisWith new information on four generations of women musicians, this book expands and alters the narratives that scholars and musicians have told about music in sixteenth-century Ferrara. A radical perspective on a familiar repertoire, it proposes a new way of thinking with consequences for music history and performance practice.Trade Review'In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded window that has, until now, obscured our understanding of this chapter in music history … Stras offers a second life to the musical women of sixteenth-century Ferrara.' Rebecca Cypess, Music and LettersTable of ContentsIntroduction: Musica secreta; 1. Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century; 2. Courtly women and secular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century; 3. Princesses and politics: the Este women and music in the 1550s; 4. Actresses and Ariosto: spectacle and song in the 1560s; 5. 'Un modo di cantare molto diverso': Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s; 6. Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s; 7. Musical practices of the 1580s concerto; 8. Ferrara's final chapter: court and convents in the 1590s; 9. Afterlife in Mantua.
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Cambridge University Press Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisPlague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book uncovers the place of music - whether regarded as an indispensable medicine or a moral poison that exacerbated outbreaks - in the management of the disease. This original musicological approach further reveals how composers responded, in their works, to the discourses and practices surrounding one of the greatest medical crises in the pre-modern age. Addressing topics such as music as therapy, public rituals and performance and music in religion, the volume also provides detailed musical analysis throughout to illustrate how pestilence affected societal attitudes toward music.Trade Review'Plague and Music in the Renaissance does a fine job of presenting the pressures that plague put upon medical, theological, and civic understanding. It beautifully outlines the manner in which Saint Sebastian became identified with the plague.' Chadwick Jenkins, Notes'… the book is a very judicious and well-structured study on this otherwise underresearched topic of music in the medical regimens against plague, and covers a wide span of Renaissance music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.' Johann F. W. Hasler, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Medicine for the body and soul; 2. Sympathetic resonance, sympathetic contagion; 3. Devotions on the street and in the home; 4. The cult of St Sebastian; 5. Madrigals, Mithridates, and the plague of Milan.
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Cambridge University Press Mozarts Requiem Reception Work Completion Music in Context
Book SynopsisPresenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the Requiem legend in general writings, fiction, theatre and film, as well as discussing criticism, scholarship and performance. Evaluation of Mozart's work on the Requiem turns attention to the autograph score, the document in which myths and musical realities collide. Franz Xaver SÃssmayr's completion (1791â2) is also re-appraised and the ideological underpinnings of modern completions assessed. Overall, the book affirms that Mozart's Requiem, fascinating for interacting musical, biographical, circumstantial and psychological reasons, cannot be fully appreciated by studying only Mozart's activities. Broad-ranging hermeneutic approaches to the work, moreover, supersede traditionally limited discursTrade Review'It is astounding that Keefe opens up new ground in large areas … A far-reaching book … All in all, a first-class monograph, outstandingly produced and printed, which will be read cover to cover as well as used for reference.' Manfred Hermann Schmid, Mozart-Jahrbuch 2013Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mozart's Requiem in context; 1. The Requiem legend in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2. Criticism and scholarship from 1800 to the present day; 3. The Requiem in performance; 4. Mozart's work on the Requiem: sounds and strategies; 5. After Mozart: the Requiem completion, 1791–2; 6. Modern completions of the Requiem; Epilogue: a Requiem for the future.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Isnt Her Grace Amazing
Book SynopsisA unique tribute to often overlooked women who have left an indelible mark on Gospel Music—powerful talents who overcame racism and sexism to define the genre, establish its sound, and set the standard for good sangin’ for generations.Nothing in the world soothes the soul better than Gospel music.Trade ReviewIsn't Her Graze Amazing! is an affectionate yet clear-eyed view of gospel’s brightest voices. — Library Journal
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Hal Leonard Corporation Whom God Hath Joined Together Wedding
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Hal Leonard Corporation A Very Merry Christmas
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Hal Leonard Corporation AFRICANAMERICAN SPIRITUALS FOR EASY PIANO PVG
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Hal Leonard Corporation Christmas Instruments in Praise Sheet Music
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Hal Leonard Corporation CHRISTMAS SOLOS FOR KIDS VCE BOOKCD Vocal
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Deep River Collection Ten Spirituals for Low
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Hal Leonard Corporation Christmas Instruments in Praise Keyboard
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