Sacred and religious music Books
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Evangelisches Gesangbuch. Ausgabe Fur Die
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£15.20
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Evangelisches Gesangbuch. Ausgabe Fur Die
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£15.20
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Singt Von Hoffnung Neue Lieder Fur Die Gemeinde
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£11.40
Evangelische Verlagsansta O Haupt Sonst Schon Gezieret ...
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£40.92
Harrassowitz Mein Herz Soll Den Herren Loben
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£96.57
Herder Verlag GmbH Das klingende Kirchenjahr
£19.00
Brill U Schoningh Kultgeschichte ALS Musikgeschichte:
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£81.60
Brill U Schoningh Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 107. Jahrgang 2023
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£999.99
Brill I Schoeningh Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 108. Jahrgang 2024
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£44.91
Brill I Schoeningh Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 109. Jahrgang 2025
£44.91
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie: 2022
Book SynopsisDa jährlich 10.000 Tiere auf Tierfriedhöfen beigesetzt werden, schlägt J. Neijenhuis eine entsprechende Liturgie vor, mit denen Geistliche, aber auch Laien, auf Anfrage von trauernden Tierhaltern ein Tierbegräbnis leiten können. Bei diesen Tierbegräbnissen steht die seelsorgerliche Dimension im Vordergrund. W. Jones befasst sich mit der Steigerung der Feierlichkeit fÃ"r Messen. Melismatische Gesänge sollen die Feierlichkeit erhöhen. J. Neijenhuis setzt sich mit Henning TheiÃ�ens Darstellung Gottes Gegenwart wahrnehmen kritisch auseinander, der einen ästhetischen Ansatz verfolgt. I. Scheitler geht Sprach- und Denkformen im Lied â Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuldâ nach, die den später pietistisch empfundenen Frömmigkeitsausdruck geprägt haben. Chr. Henzel befasst sich mit den Ideen Emil Neumanns zu einer möglichen Praxis des liturgischen Psalmengesangs mit Gemeindebeteiligung. A. Marti arbeitet Qualitätsfragen im Kirchenlied heraus. Er baut dabei auf das im vorliegenden Band veröffentlichte Arbeitspapier der Internationalen Arbeitsgemeinschaft fÃ"r Hymnologie (IAH) zum Thema. Eine Projektskizze zu einer Arbeit Ã"ber das Porstâ sche Gesangbuch ist der erste Beitrag einer Reihe, in der zukÃ"nftig hymnologische Dissertationen in kurzer Form vorgestellt werden sollen, um einen wissenschaftlichen Austausch zu befördern. Literaturberichte zur Liturgik und Hymnologie sowie Strophen- und Personenregister runden das Jahrbuch ab.
£50.24
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Evangelisches Gesangbuch Taschenausgabe
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£24.70
Peter Lang AG Osternacht Und Altes Testament: Studien Und
Book SynopsisDie Osternachtvigil, Zenit der alten christlichen Liturgie, ist in der katholischen Kirche im 20. Jahrhundert revitalisiert worden. Doch durch die Reform und bald nach der Reform ist die Feiergestalt in neue Probleme hineingeraten. Eine der untergründigen Schwierigkeiten dürfte in der Entfremdung der Kirche vom Alten Testament liegen, von dem gerade diese Vigil zuinnerst geprägt ist. Im Blick auf eine zu wünschende abermalige Revision legen in diesem Buch zwei Alttestamentler, die auch liturgiegeschichtliche, übersetzungstheoretische und bibelhermeneutische Interessen haben, Analysen und Vorschläge vor. Eine neue, der traditionellen Melodie möglichst nahe Vertonung des deutschen Exsultet durch Erwin Bücken ist beigefügt.
£54.29
Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag Das Leben Jesu
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£26.60
Schnell & Steiner 500 Jahre Evangelisches Gesangbuch
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£29.71
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Sacred Music from the Cathedral at Trent Trent
Book SynopsisOften called the musical equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Trent codices have dramatically broadened our understanding of Renaissance music. Much has been written about this collection of fifteenth-century music manuscripts, most of which were discovered in the Cathedral at Trent, but none of the seven codices--generally called Trent 87 through Trent 93--has ever been published in its entirety. Thus Rebecca Gerber's edition of Trent 88, which took more than a decade to prepare, will be the first to appear. As such, this volume is a landmark in the publication of early music.Trent 88 comprises an extensive anthology of 145 compositions tailored to the ceremonial and daily religious services of the period. The international scope of the collection is both impressive and significant: early English, French, German, and Spanish mass cycles appear alongside simple hymns and Magnificats. Music by renowned composersincluding Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, Johannes Cornago, and John
£380.00
The University of Chicago Press The Lucca Choirbook
Book SynopsisComprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges about 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century - including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac.
£228.00
The University of Chicago Press Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women - part of one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa - through their songs and dances, dream narratives and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press A Gift of Madrigals and Motets Volume 2
Book SynopsisNear the end of the third decade of the sixteenth century, a five-volume set of madrigal and motet partbooks was assembled in Florence and sent as a giftor musical embassyto the English court of Henry VIII. The manuscript setminus the missing altus parthas been owned since 1935 by the Newberry Library in Chicago; but until H. Colin Slim's exhaustive efforts, no thorough study of the history or contents of the partbooks had been undertaken. At first encounter, these partbooks yield no clues concerning their provenance, their composers' names, or the reasons for their dispatch to England. In his search for this information, Professor Slim used the musicologists' customary tools, namely, biobibliography, concordances, and textual and musical analysis. But he also used bibliographers' tools not always employed by musicologists: watermarks, bindings, script, orthography, and illuminations. As a result of his efforts, the author was able to identify nearly all the works' composers and the ma
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Requiem MassMessa Da Requiem The Works
Book SynopsisMessa da Requiem is the fourth work to be published in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. Following the strict requirements of the series, this edition is based on Verdi's autograph and other authentic sources, and has been reviewed by a distinguished editorial boardPhilip Gossett (general editor), Julian Budden, Martin Chusid, Francesco Degrada, Ursula Günther, Giorgio Pestelli, and Pierluigi Petrobelli. It is available as a two-volume set: a full orchestral score and a critical commentary. The appendixes include two pieces from the compositional history of the Requiem: an early version of the Libera me, composed in 1869 as part of a collaborative work planned as a memorial to Rossini; and the Liber scriptus, which in the original score of the Manzoni memorial Requiem was composed as a fugue in G minor. The score, which has been beautifully bound and autographed, is printed on high-grade paper in an oversized format. The introduction to the score discusses the work's genesis, instrumentatio
£380.00
The University of Chicago Press Sounding the Center History Aesthetics in Thai
Book SynopsisThis work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Sounding the Center
Book SynopsisThis work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance.
£38.00
MO - University of Illinois Press John Dygons Proportiones practicabiles secundum Gaffurium
Book SynopsisJohn Dygon was the prior of St Augustine's monastery in Canterbury when Henry VIII dissolved the English Catholic Church during the 1530s and reorganized it under royal control. This volume features these two treatises, providing a transcription and English translation. It provides an example of musical scholarship from the early Tudor period.Trade Review"Theodor Dumitrescu's study, edition, and translation of Dygon's works is exemplary in every respect. . . . The book sheds light on aspects of English musical culture that go well beyond the specific topics covered in the treatises and provides valuable insights into musical relations between England and the continent in the early decades of the sixteenth century."--Renaissance Quarterly
£29.70
University of Illinois Press Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Title, 2018 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society, 2019 "Unpacks issues of power and cultural authenticity in the white-controlled jubilee industry and within blackface minstrelsy performances, including Uncle Tom and plantation shows . . . Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry will be crucial to anyone studying American music, especially those focused on the post-Civil War period through 1900, and of course anyone who studies African American music history."--Blackgrooves.org "[A] one-of-a-kind title . . . Many volumes address spirituals themselves, but few detail the actual exponents of this important African American tradition in such a refreshingly disarming way."--Library Journal"Graham proves an industry was built on and inspired by the specific cultural context and contributions of Black people. . . . Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry is compulsory reading for all who wish to expand their knowledge on Black contributions to music, art, and entertainment." --Transposition"A detailed, cogent, and fascinating history of the popularization of Negro spirituals [that is] thoroughly documented and covers a truly vast range of information. One of the especially distinctive features of Graham's approach is its careful consideration of musical elements and how they figure in defining objects under study."--Thomas L. Riis, author of Frank Loesser "Music historians will find Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry fascinating because instead of rehashing the already well-researched lyric import of the spirituals, Graham looks at the art form as the spark that ignited an entertainment industry." --ARSC Journal "A detailed and valuable genealogy of the spiritual."—The Journal of Southern History"Graham skillfully illuminates the racial dynamics of the era, handling with particular grace the equivocal effect of the spirituals’ popularity on artistically ambitious black performers: although performers took advantage of burgeoning professional opportunities, their careers were circumscribed by the expectations of white audiences. A pleasure to read, the book weaves meticulous research into an engaging narrative that vividly enriches understanding of postbellum American music and theater.”—Choice "This book is recommended to anyone with an interest in American folk and popular music, and it should provoke many followers-up studies that explore its themes in even greater depth as well as their extensions into the twentieth century." --Journal of Folklore Research"A pleasure to read, the book weaves meticulous research into an engaging narrative that vividly enriches understanding of postbellum American music and theater. Highly recommended." --Choice"Sandra Graham breaks new ground in her nuanced examination of the white-controlled spiritual or jubilee industry, and of claims for musical and cultural authenticity by black college and independent jubilee groups, as well as white and black performers of blackface minstrelsy, American folk music, and European classical traditions."--Portia K. Maultsby, coeditor of Issues in African American Music and African American Music: An Introduction, second edition
£87.55
University of Illinois Press The Cashaway Psalmody
Book SynopsisSinging master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills''s level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill. Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody''s significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era''s development. Marini also uses close musical and textual anaTrade Review"Offering a microhistory of meticulous precision, Marini forges through it a study of broad interdisciplinary scope, a rare synthesizing perspective on the musical, religious, commercial, and educational cultures of the eighteenth-century colonies. I know of no one else in the field who could have pulled off this feat the way Marini has—an exceptional combination of indefatigable archival research with practiced musical expertise."--Leigh Eric Schmidt, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality"Stephen Marini's careful research into an extraordinary eighteenth-century tunemaster and the extraordinary collection of texts and music he gathered into the Cashaway psalter has resulted in an extraordinary book. Tight focus on this one manuscript-musical object yields a rich harvest of insight on transatlantic cultural exchange, unexpected cooperation among churches, the economics of artistic production, and (most of all) the absolutely central place of singing in early American history. It is a rich and rewarding study."--Mark Noll, author of A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, second edition
£48.60
University of Illinois Press When Sunday Comes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A groundbreaking study." --Black Perspectives"The beauty of Claudrena N. Harold’s brilliant When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras is in how it illustrates the power of gospel music to maintain its character, grow from its roots, evolve to reach new listeners, and spiral steadily upward in its call-and-response to new audiences who acclaim the uplifting spiritual strength and enduring beauty of the music. " --No Depression"A multilensed view of a continually evolving and consistently vibrant art form. For gospel fans, music scholars, and scholars of African American history and culture generally." --Library Journal"An in-depth history of African American gospel music." --Booklist"When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for--a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music. With this volume, Claudrena Harold makes a valid argument for scholars to look more closely at this important period in gospel music history."--Robert M. Marovich, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music"A prodigious job of research. The author seems to have consulted all available print sources in addition to important manuscript collections and interviews. No book covers this terrain as thoroughly and with such a deep knowledge and appreciation for the music. I don’t think it would be out of line to describe When Sunday Comes as a labor of love." --David W. Stowe, author of No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American EvangelicalismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£87.55
MO - University of Illinois Press Sacred Song in America
Book SynopsisExploring sacred song as an integral element of religious culture in AmericaTrade Review"A unique and compelling contribution to American cultural history."--The Antioch Review"The breadth of Marini's study is staggering . . . Marini's solid contribution to the all-too-sparse number of works that recognize the rich contribution of American sacred music promises to spur a number of academic studies and thereby enrich the future of historiography and understanding of American culture."--Journal of Southern Religion"A deeply reflective text, layered with multiple literary and musical references. . . . an excellent text for the classroom. Marini is able to draw many strands of influence together as he explains each musical tradition with ease and clarity."--Journal of the NABPR"A wealth of information as well as readable, thought-provoking interpretations. . . . Marini has produced a volume of value for those interested in American religion and music as well as for specialists in cultural history."--Theology Today"We owe Marini deep thanks for this unusual study. He offers compelling insights into the nature of our public religion, what moves us, how secularity and sacrality intertwine. . . . Marini's book also helps church musicians to think carefully about their powerful role in religious communities and to understand their enormous responsibility in leading those communities in song."--Cross Accent"This book provides rich descriptions of many varieties of sacred music that have evolved in America over the last three hundred years."--Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly“This unusually fine and important book has no parallel. I know of no other book on American religious music with as wide a sweep. As a historian of American religion, and as a student and practitioner of sacred music, Marini is simply and utterly unique.”--Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Secular City and Fire from Heaven“Enlightening, well informed, and sophisticated. I know of nothing like it.”--Richard Crawford, author of America’s Musical Life: A HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: What Is Sacred Song? 1 PART 1: GREAT TRADITIONS OF AMERICAN SACRED SONG 1. Songway: Sacred-Song Traditions of Native America 17 2. Pilgrimage and Penitence: Sacred-Song Traditions of the Hispanic Southwest 39 3. Sacred Harp Singing: Continuity and Change in the American Singing-School Tradition 68 4. "Is It Going to Save Someone?": The Black Church at Song 100 5. Klezmorim and Sephardim: The Jewish Music Revival 130 PART 2: SACRED SONG AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN RELIGION 6. New Music of teh Spheres: From the New Age to Neo-Paganism 163 7. Contested Praise: A Tale of Two Hymnals 184 8. Mormons and Music: Maintaining and Mainstreaming Sectarian Identity 213 9. Troubadour for the Lord: Catholic Charismatics and Sacred Song 239 10. The Conservatory Tradition: Interviews with Daniel Pinkham and Neely Bruce 264 11. Gospel Music: Sacred Song and teh Marketplace 296 Conclusion: American Sacred Song and the Meaning of Religious Culture 321 Appendix: Music Examples 331 Index of Titles and First Lines 377 Index of Names and Subjects 383
£22.49
University of Illinois Press Island Gospel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most extensive ethnographic study to date of Pentecostal music practices. The author's perspective as a practicing believer and respected ethnomusicologist provides unprecedented access to the community and a deep understanding of Pentecostal traditions and discourses."--Judah Cohen, author of Jewish Liturgical Music in Nineteenth-Century America "Island Gospel is a groundbreaking exploration into the complex landscape of Jamaican Pentecostal musical culture. By working in rural and urban religious communities in Jamaica, as well as Jamaican diasporic communities in New York, Melvin Butler unearths the ways in which the faithful hold onto a 'surprisingly resilient' holy-worldly binary as they construct, deconstruct, and collapse boundaries within Pentecostal musical culture across ideas of traditional and modern; colonialism and independence; Jamaican-ness and American-ness; local and global; racialized sounds of Blackness and whiteness; and generations. Throughout his fieldwork, Butler benefits from and remains refreshingly self-reflexive about his position as an ethnomusicologist, 'believer,' and accomplished keyboardist participating in and observing church life. A must-read for scholars of Caribbean musical culture and Pentecostalism."--Judith Casselberry, author of The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism
£17.99
University of Illinois Press When Sunday Comes
Book SynopsisGospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel's incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers. Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music's essential place as an outlet for AfTrade Review"A groundbreaking study." --Black Perspectives"The beauty of Claudrena N. Harold’s brilliant When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras is in how it illustrates the power of gospel music to maintain its character, grow from its roots, evolve to reach new listeners, and spiral steadily upward in its call-and-response to new audiences who acclaim the uplifting spiritual strength and enduring beauty of the music. " --No Depression"A multilensed view of a continually evolving and consistently vibrant art form. For gospel fans, music scholars, and scholars of African American history and culture generally." --Library Journal"An in-depth history of African American gospel music." --Booklist"When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for--a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music. With this volume, Claudrena Harold makes a valid argument for scholars to look more closely at this important period in gospel music history."--Robert M. Marovich, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music"A prodigious job of research. The author seems to have consulted all available print sources in addition to important manuscript collections and interviews. No book covers this terrain as thoroughly and with such a deep knowledge and appreciation for the music. I don’t think it would be out of line to describe When Sunday Comes as a labor of love." --David W. Stowe, author of No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American EvangelicalismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£17.09
Indiana University Press Music Education and Religion
Book SynopsisMusic, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. Trade ReviewThe book serves as a study volume for all those who are active in this field and provides both systematic reflections and useful empirical studies. A further impressive feature is the regional and religious breadth of the content presented and examined. -- Wolfgang W. Müller * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, and Philip AlpersonPart I: Tensions and Negotiations1. On the Role of Religion in Music Education / Estelle Jorgensen2. Selective Affinities: Concordance and Discordance at the Intersection of Musical, Educational, and Religious Practices / Philip Alperson3. The Performativity of Performance: Agency at the Intersection of Music and Religion in School / Heidi Westerlund, Alexis Anja Kallio and Heidi ParttiPart II: Identity and Community4. Shaping Identities in and through Religious Music Engagement: A Case Study of an Australian Catholic Girls' School / Janelle Colville Fletcher and Margaret S. Barrett5. Religion and the Transmission of Thai Musical Heritage, in Thailand and the United States of America / Pamela Moro6. The Believing-Belonging Paradigm: Music, Education, and Religion in Contemporary Serbia / Ivana Percoviç and Biljana Mandiç7. Religious Repertoire in General Music Education: Spiritual Indoctrination or Cultural Dialogue? / Lauri VäkeväPart III: Navigating New Worlds8. Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans: Spiritual and Existential Experience and Music Education / Øivind Varkøy9. The Sacred Sphere: Its Equipment, Beauty, Functions, and Transformations under Secular Conditions / Maria B. Spychiger10. Music Education as Sacred Practice: A Philosophical Exploration / Frank Heuser11. Advocatus Diaboli: Revisiting the Devil's Role in Music and Music Education / Alexandra Kertz-WelzelPart IV: Emancipation, Regulation, and the Social Order12. The Humanist Defense of Music Education in Civil and Religious Life: The Praise of Musicke (1586) and Apologia Musices (1588) / Hyun-Ah Kim13. The Curious Case of "Good Morning Iran": Music and Broadcast Regulation in the Islamic Republic / Erum Naqvi14. When Hell Freezes Over—Black Metal: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism and/or Egoistic Protectionism? / Ketil Thorgersen and Thomas von WachenfeldtPart V: Agency and Social Change15. Radical Musical Inclusion in Higher Education: The Creation of Foundation Music at the University of Winchester / June Boyce-Tillman16. Religious Identities Intersecting Higher Music Education: An Israeli Teacher Educator as a Boundary Worker in an All-Female Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Context / Laura Miettinen17. Religion and Music in an Education for Social Change / Iris M. Yob18. Dancing on the Limits: An Interreligious Dialogue Exploring the Lived Experience of Two Religiously Observant Music Educators in Israel / Belal Badarne and Amira EhrlichMusic, Education, and Religion: An Invitation / Alexis Anja KallioIndex
£70.55
Indiana University Press Music Education and Religion
Book SynopsisMusic, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. Trade ReviewThe book serves as a study volume for all those who are active in this field and provides both systematic reflections and useful empirical studies. A further impressive feature is the regional and religious breadth of the content presented and examined. -- Wolfgang W. Müller * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, and Philip AlpersonPart I: Tensions and Negotiations1. On the Role of Religion in Music Education / Estelle Jorgensen2. Selective Affinities: Concordance and Discordance at the Intersection of Musical, Educational, and Religious Practices / Philip Alperson3. The Performativity of Performance: Agency at the Intersection of Music and Religion in School / Heidi Westerlund, Alexis Anja Kallio and Heidi ParttiPart II: Identity and Community4. Shaping Identities in and through Religious Music Engagement: A Case Study of an Australian Catholic Girls' School / Janelle Colville Fletcher and Margaret S. Barrett5. Religion and the Transmission of Thai Musical Heritage, in Thailand and the United States of America / Pamela Moro6. The Believing-Belonging Paradigm: Music, Education, and Religion in Contemporary Serbia / Ivana Percoviç and Biljana Mandiç7. Religious Repertoire in General Music Education: Spiritual Indoctrination or Cultural Dialogue? / Lauri VäkeväPart III: Navigating New Worlds8. Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans: Spiritual and Existential Experience and Music Education / Øivind Varkøy9. The Sacred Sphere: Its Equipment, Beauty, Functions, and Transformations under Secular Conditions / Maria B. Spychiger10. Music Education as Sacred Practice: A Philosophical Exploration / Frank Heuser11. Advocatus Diaboli: Revisiting the Devil's Role in Music and Music Education / Alexandra Kertz-WelzelPart IV: Emancipation, Regulation, and the Social Order12. The Humanist Defense of Music Education in Civil and Religious Life: The Praise of Musicke (1586) and Apologia Musices (1588) / Hyun-Ah Kim13. The Curious Case of "Good Morning Iran": Music and Broadcast Regulation in the Islamic Republic / Erum Naqvi14. When Hell Freezes Over—Black Metal: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism and/or Egoistic Protectionism? / Ketil Thorgersen and Thomas von WachenfeldtPart V: Agency and Social Change15. Radical Musical Inclusion in Higher Education: The Creation of Foundation Music at the University of Winchester / June Boyce-Tillman16. Religious Identities Intersecting Higher Music Education: An Israeli Teacher Educator as a Boundary Worker in an All-Female Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Context / Laura Miettinen17. Religion and Music in an Education for Social Change / Iris M. Yob18. Dancing on the Limits: An Interreligious Dialogue Exploring the Lived Experience of Two Religiously Observant Music Educators in Israel / Belal Badarne and Amira EhrlichMusic, Education, and Religion: An Invitation / Alexis Anja KallioIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCohen's work offers a nuanced view of cantorial students and faculty as individuals, and a sympathetic commentary on the School as an institution in the context of Reform Judaism. It is also a valuable account of structure and agency in the formation of musical authority, and an examination of the mediating roles of an insider scholarly institution.May 5, 2010 -- Jonathan Dueck * Duke University *[This book] will be of interest not only to cantors and their teachers but also to rabbis, congregations and everyone concerned about the future of the Jewish community.4/7/10 -- Morton Teicher * Florida Jewish Journal *[The author] has produced a vibrant, descriptive analysis of cantorial education from the time of admission to...to graduation.... 5/19/10 * NATIONAL JEWISH POST & OPINION *Cohen successfully navigates a complex waterway, melding history, ethnography and Jewish professional studies with a musicological account of cantorial education in the 21st century. Cohen's perspective is at once narrow and layered. . . . In realizing his goal, Cohen has provided us with a rich and unique work that will no doubt hold the interest of Jewish historians, musicians, and of course cantors, themselves.March 20, 2010 * Musica Judaica Online Reviews *Opening a window on the practical, social, and cultural aspects of aspiring to musical authority, this book provides unusual insights into issues of musical tradition, identity, gender, community, and high and low musical culture. May 6, 2010 * menorahreview.org *Cohen brought to the task he set for himself—understanding the education of cantors—special knowledge about music and about being a participant-observer. The result is a sterling presentation that will be of interest not only to cantors and their teachers but also to rabbis, congregations and everyone concerned about the future of the Jewish community.April 16, 2010 * Buffalo Jewish Review *[Cohen] is not merely tapping the knowledge base of musical authorities as a means to gather data; his goal is to understand the creation of musical authority itself, specifically that of the Reform cantor in the 21st Century. ...Cohen has provided us with a rich and unique work that will no doubt hold the interest of Jewish historians, musicians, and of course cantors, themselves.3/20/2010 -- Scott M. Sokol * Hebrew College, Newton Centre, Massachusetts *[The author's] research impressively combines ethnographic and historical approaches to the question of how sound enriches modern Jewish life and culture.August 3, 2009 * MyJewishLearning.com *[T]his volume is a useful addition to the scholarly bookshelf. . . . The accessible and readable style of Cohen's account coupled with relevant CD illustrations will make this a useful case study for a course on music in contemporary religious practice, while his theoretical observations will provide a springboard for much wider discussion of musical texts and processes. * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and AttributionsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: A Moment of Transformation1. To Fashion a Cantor2. Seeking the Tradition3. Constructing a Tradition4. Through the Prism of the Practicum5. A Prism of Cantorial Sound6. A Prism of Cantorial IdentityConclusion: Cantors in Israel and the Structure of Musical AuthorityAppendix A: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Pronunciation TableAppendix B: URJ Transliteration Guidelines and Master Word ListBibliographyIndexList of Selections on Compact Disc
£22.49
Indiana University Press Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisHighlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.Trade ReviewBowring, Cypess, and Malamut's collection provides valuable insights into this unique and colorful period of Jewish history, a zigzag of alternating oppression and acceptance, a complex of negotiated identities. -- Joshua R. Jacobson * Early Music America *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesList of TablesEditorial PrinciplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rebecca Cypess1. Written in Italian, Heard as Jewish: Reconsidering the Notated Sources of Italian Jewish Music , by Francesco Spagnolo2. Miriam's Timbrel: The Decameron as Exodus, by Aaron Beck3. Traces of Jewish Music and Culture at the Urbino Court of Federico da Montefeltro , by J. Drew Stephen4. The Peripatetic Career of a Converted Jew: The Music Theorist Pietro Aaron , by Bonnie J. Blackburn5. A Fire, a Fight, and a Knight: Elye Bokher in Verse and Song , by Avery Gosfield6. The Bassanos at the Court of Henry VIII: A Story of Cooperation and Protection , by Dongmyung Ahn7. Jewish and Converted Musicians and Musical Instruments Makers in Southern Italy in the Fifteenth through Early Seventeenth Centuries, by Luigi Sisto8. Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon: The Pleasures and Pains of Marginality, by Stefano Patuzzi9. Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi , by Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring10. L'Accademia degli Impediti: A Reevaluation , by Liza MalamutBibliography: Manuscript SourcesPrinted SourcesPrinted ScoresDiscographyIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Music Education in the Middle Ages and the
Book SynopsisWhat were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? This title addresses these topics and others to understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe.Trade ReviewRecommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.April 2011 * Choice *The editors and authors of this volume have put together an important collection of essays ... [T]he volume as a whole represents a worthy attempt to treat musical pedagogy in an historical manner and ... the authors and editors are to be congratulated. * The Medieval Review *[These essays] address the multifaceted topic of music education in Western Europe over a long span . . . and offer much new information, in part by focusing on places and social groups often previously treated as marginal. . . . One hopes that this engaging collection of essays will spur others to investigate this vast and fascinating topic. Fall 2011 * Early Music America *What is distinctive and welcome about this book is its musicological focus on pedagogy, music education, and the history of education which serves to expand the horizons of our field of study. * British Journal of Music Education *The essays gathered in this volume confirm for us that the study of musical pedagogy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance continues to receive the proper attention it so richly deserves. These contributions present an exciting perspective about the many approaches to themes found under the large umbrella of musical instruction and study, as well as the fascinating fruits that come to bear after their in-depth exploration. This volume is not only a welcome addition to scholarship on this topic but also a telling indicator of new research to come. * Journal of Musicological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Past / Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. CyrusPerspective 11. Some Introductory Remarks on Musical Pedagogy / James HaarPart 1 Medieval Pedagogy2. Guido d'Arezzo, Ut queant laxis, and Musical Understanding / Dolores Pesce3. Some Thoughts on Music Pedagogy in the Carolingian Era / Charles M. Atkinson4. Medieval Musical Education as Seen through Sources Outside the Realm of Music Theory / Susan BoyntonPart 2 Renaissance Places of Learning5. "Sang Schwylls" and "Music Schools": Music Education in Scotland, 1560–1650 / Gordon Munro6. A Proper Musical Education for Antwerp's Women / Kristine K. Forney7. Juan Bermudo, Self-instruction, and the Amateur Instrumentalist / John GriffithsPerspective 28. The Humanist and the Commonplace Book: Education in Practice / Anthony GraftonPart 3 Renaissance Materials and Contexts9. Musical Commonplaces in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert10. Music Education and the Conduct of Life in Early Modern England: A Review of the Sources / Pamela F. Starr11. Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks / Susan Forscher WeissPart 4 Music Education in the Convent12. The Educational Practices of Benedictine Nuns: A Salzburg Abbey Case Study / Cynthia J. Cyrus13. Nun Musicians as Teachers and Students in Early Modern Spain / Colleen BaadePart 5 The Teacher14. Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488 / Blake Wilson15. Zacconi as Teacher: A Pedagogical Style in Words and Deeds / Russell E. Murray, Jr.16. The Good Maestro: Pietro Cerone on the Pedagogical Relationship / Gary TownePerspective 317. You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover: Reflections on Format in English Music "Theory" / Jessie Ann OwensContributorsIndex
£38.70
University of Notre Dame Press Sacred Sound and Social Change
Book SynopsisTeachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its growth up to the Protestant Reformation, as well as post-Reformation development. Other essays explore liturgical music in contemporary North America by analyzing it against the backdrop of the continuous social change that characterizes our era.Trade Review“Liturgical musicians should consider adding [Sacred Sound and Social Change] to their libraries. Each critical aspect of music is considered. As society continues to change and social pressures intensify, music will continue to play its critical role. This book gives us a chance to reflect upon where we’ve been, where we are, and where we may be going.” —Modern Liturgy * Modern Liturgy *"Following two excellent collections examining the development of Judaism and Christianity, this third volume in this series traces the usages of music in the two faiths, from biblical origins and medieval developments to current practices, while analyzing the varieties of music within each tradition." —Journal of Ecumenical Studies"The editors sought to bring diverse voices to the discussion. Their treatment of Jewish and Christian traditions within the same volume is significant; since both musical traditions stem from common sources and deal with similar social forces today, common reflection can lead to greater insight." —Theological Studies"This book reveals profound thought about the function of music in liturgy. All church and synagogue musicians should read it." —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Gothic Song
Book SynopsisMargot E. Fassler's richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of Americademonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical and artistic experience, and to our understanding of change and continuity in medieval culture. Fassler examines the figure of Adam of St. Victor and the possible layers within the repertories created at various churches in Paris, probes the ways the Victorine sequences worked musically and exegetically, and situates this repertory within the intellectuaTrade Review"Margot Fassler is an original, imaginative scholar, and the first edition of Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris fulfilled our need for a historical account. A paperback edition will make this picture of twelfth-century European creativity available to students and a wider general audience." —Richard L. Crocker, University of California, Berkeley"What meanings did liturgical chant convey to its elite medieval audience, the educated clergy? How did this audience understand the connection between text and music, and how did this conception change over time? These timely questions form the backdrop for Gothic Song, Margot Fassler's engaging study of the twelfth-century sequence. Focusing primarily on the Augustinian abbey of Saint-Victor de Paris, Fassler argues that it was there and at the nearby cathedral that Adam Precentor (Adam of Saint-Victor) and his circle developed a new approach to sequence composition." —The Journal of the American Musicological Society". . . this represents a considerable revision and expansion of our previous knowledge of musical life in 12th-century Paris and of the background to the late medieval sequence. . . . It is through commendable, detailed studies such as [this] that our views of the early epochs of music will gradually crystallise into clearer shapes." —The Musical Times"In relation to this apotheosis of the Word, the sequences of the Middle Ages present an intriguing paradox. On one hand, the melodies of sequences in many sources carry a Latin text, intensely coloured by the Vulgate Bible and by the rich tradition of Christian Latinity. On the other hand, as Margot Fassler points out in this fine book, the sequence was often conceived in the Middle Ages as an anticipation of angelic praise and therefore of a heavenly song where human language has no meaning. Margot Fassler explores this contrast in a richly documented survey of the sequence tradition, concentrating upon the late sequence, which, as she convincingly shows, was championed at the Abbey of St Victor in Paris." —Early Music
£38.25
University of Notre Dame Press Gothic Song
Book SynopsisMargot E. Fassler's richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of Americademonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical and artistic experience, and to our understanding of change and continuity in medieval culture. Fassler examines the figure of Adam of St. Victor and the possible layers within the repertories created at various churches in Paris, probes the ways the Victorine sequences worked musically and exegetically, and situates this repertory within the intellectuaTrade Review"Margot Fassler is an original, imaginative scholar, and the first edition of Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris fulfilled our need for a historical account. A paperback edition will make this picture of twelfth-century European creativity available to students and a wider general audience." —Richard L. Crocker, University of California, Berkeley"What meanings did liturgical chant convey to its elite medieval audience, the educated clergy? How did this audience understand the connection between text and music, and how did this conception change over time? These timely questions form the backdrop for Gothic Song, Margot Fassler's engaging study of the twelfth-century sequence. Focusing primarily on the Augustinian abbey of Saint-Victor de Paris, Fassler argues that it was there and at the nearby cathedral that Adam Precentor (Adam of Saint-Victor) and his circle developed a new approach to sequence composition." —The Journal of the American Musicological Society". . . this represents a considerable revision and expansion of our previous knowledge of musical life in 12th-century Paris and of the background to the late medieval sequence. . . . It is through commendable, detailed studies such as [this] that our views of the early epochs of music will gradually crystallise into clearer shapes." —The Musical Times"In relation to this apotheosis of the Word, the sequences of the Middle Ages present an intriguing paradox. On one hand, the melodies of sequences in many sources carry a Latin text, intensely coloured by the Vulgate Bible and by the rich tradition of Christian Latinity. On the other hand, as Margot Fassler points out in this fine book, the sequence was often conceived in the Middle Ages as an anticipation of angelic praise and therefore of a heavenly song where human language has no meaning. Margot Fassler explores this contrast in a richly documented survey of the sequence tradition, concentrating upon the late sequence, which, as she convincingly shows, was championed at the Abbey of St Victor in Paris." —Early Music
£105.40
University of Texas Press Muslim Rap Halal Soaps and Revolutionary Theat
Book SynopsisTwelve leading scholars trace Islamic discourse on the performing arts to give insight into genres of pious productions throughout the world.Trade Review"A welcome addition to discussions about contemporary cultures in Muslim contexts. [...] The collection of essays in the volume Muslim Rap is impressive." - Contemporary IslamTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Performing Arts (Karin van Nieuwkerk) Part One: The Power of Performance Chapter 1. Hardcore Muslims: Islamic Themes in Turkish Rap between Diaspora and Homeland (Thomas Solomon) Chapter 2. Contesting Islamic Concepts of Morality: Heavy Metal in Istanbul (Pierre Hecker) Chapter 3. Iranian Popular Music in Los Angeles: A Transnational Public beyond the Islamic State (Farzaneh Hemmasi) Part Two: Motivations Chapter 4. Ritual as Strategic Action: The Social Logic of Musical Silence in Canadian Islam (Michael Frishkopf) Chapter 5. Pious Entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic Cultural Sphere (Joseph Alagha) Chapter 6. Of Morals, Missions, and the Market: New Religiosity and "Art with a Mission" in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk) Part Three: Staging the Body and the World Stage Chapter 7. Islamic Modernity and the Re-enchanting Power of Symbols in Islamic Fantasy Serials in Turkey (Ahu Yigit) Chapter 8. From "Evil-Inciting" Dance to Chaste "Rhythmic Movements": A Genealogy of Modern Islamic Dance-Theatre in Iran (Zeinab Stellar) Chapter 9. Suficized Musics of Syria at the Intersection of Heritage and the War on Terror; Or "A Rumi with a View" (Jonathan H. Shannon) Afterword (Martin Stokes) Notes on Contributors Index
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University of California Press Musics of Many Cultures
Book SynopsisOriginally published with records, this edition does not include the records.Table of ContentsForeword Mantle Hood Editor's Preface Elizabeth May Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Abbreviations Contributors 1. Ethnomusicology: Definitions, Directions, and Problems Bruno Nettl 2. Evolution and Revolution in Chinese Music Kuo-huang Han and Lindy Li Mark 3. Certain Experiences in Korean Music Kang-sook Lee 4. Some of Japan's Musics and Musical Principles William P. Malm 5. The Music of Thailand David Morton 6. Some Principles of Indian Classical Music Bonnie C. Wade 7. Musical Strata in Sumatra, Java, and Bali Margaret J. Kartomi 8. Polynesian Music and Dance Adrienne L. Kaeppler 9. The Traditional Music of the Australian Aborigines Trevor A. Jones 10. Music South of the Sahara Atta Annan Mensah 11. Trends in the Black Music of South Africa, 1959-1969 John Blacking 12. Anlo Ewe Music in Anyako, Volta Region, Ghana Alfred Kwashie Ladzekpo and Kobla Ladzekpo Line drawings by Leon ice Shinneman 13. The Music of Ethiopia Cynthia Tse Kimberlin Line drawings by Jerome Kimberlin 14. Secular Classical Music in the Arabic Near East Jozef M. Pacholczyk Line drawings by Richard Keeling 15. Classical Iranian Music Ella Zonis 16. On Jewish Music Abraham A. Schwadron 17. North American Native Music David P. McAllester 18. Music of the Alaskan Eskimos Lorraine D. Koranda 19. Symbol and Function in South American Indian Music Dale A. Olsen 20. Folk Music of South America-A Musical Mosaic Dale A. Olsen Index Additional Bibliography, Discography, and Filmography
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University of California Press Golden Ages
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Golden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations of the culturally intimate space of prayer on the gramophone-era cantorial golden age. Jeremiah Lockwood proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice that calls upon the sounds and structures of Jewish sacred musical heritage to disrupt the aesthetics and power hierarchies of their conservative community, defying institutional authority and pushing at normative boundaries of sacred and secular. Beyond its role as a desirable art form, golden age cantorial music offers aspiring Hasidic singers a form of Jewish cultural productivity in which artistic excellence, maverick outsider status, and sacred authority are aligned.
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell History of Music in Britain Volume
Book SynopsisThe music of the sixteenth century has been rediscovered regularly since its composition. It was an especially fertile period for English music in particular, and to put the century in a historical and musicological perspective, this volume spans the era from 1485 to 1625, although in order to provide context and perspective the contributors range back to the middle of the fifteenth century and towards the end on the seventeenth. The book opens with a history of music and musicians in Tudor England, covering composition and performance, as well as the changing functions of music over the period. Two chapters are dedicated to sacred and church music. They cover the last years of Pre-Reformation England (especially the music of Fayrfax, Ashwell, Taverner, and the organ music of Redford, Preston and Rhys), the composers who span the charge to Anglicanism (for example Sheppard and Tallis) and those (such as Tye, Byrd, Morley, Weelkes, Hooper and Gibbons) who helped lay the foundations Table of ContentsIntroduction: the intellectual climate. 1. Composition. 2. Transmission. 3. Performance. 4. Reception: Roger Bray. 5. Sacred Music in Latin: Roger Bray. 6. Sacred Music in English: John Morehen. 7. Secular Song: Tim Carter. 8. Keyboard Music: Keith Elcombe. 9. Ensemble Music: John Harper. Index.
£162.85
University of Toronto Press Prions en Chantant
Book SynopsisThe rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With 'Prions en chantant', Marcia Epstein aims to remedy that situation by offering an edition of largely anonymous trouvère devotional songs, designed for both scholars and performers, from two late-thirteenth-century manuscripts. The majority of the music is published here for the first time. Sixty-one songs are presented, with forty-nine songs exhibited in Old French with a facing-page modern English translation followed by old musical notation and facing-page with modern musical transcription. An additional twelve songs, which lack music in the original sources, are represented by the Old French text and the modern English translation only. The introduction extensively describes the social, musical, literary and theological aspects of the trouvère songs contained in the volume. This is a valuable and welcome addition to the study of medieval music.
£23.39
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A History of the Oratorio Vol. 4 The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Book SynopsisWith this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of oratorio composition and performance: Germany, Britain, America, and France.Trade ReviewSmither brings to a triumphant conclusion his survey of the oratorio. . . . Smither's treatment of this large and sprawling topic is exemplary. . . . All in all, this volume is an outstanding achievement, both in its own right and as the final installment of The History of the Oratorio. The four volumes together stand as an invaluable survey of the oratorio genre over five centuries, to be read with profit and pleasure by musicologists, music students, social historians, and the general musical public. Smither and his publisher, the University of North Carolina Press, are to be congratulated on the successful completion of one of the most important musicological projects of recent times.--Music Library Association Notes|""Smither is to be congratulated that this huge project--a quarter-century in the undertaking--has led to a final volume which, like its predecessors, combines wide-ranging scholarly research with a style that is both accessible and enjoyable. No one with a passion for oratorio should miss it: no one with even a vague interest in the subject can fail to have that interest stimulated further. . . . A splendid final volume to a series which I am sure will remain a valuable source of information and reference for decades to come.""--The Musical Times|""With this massive volume Howard Smither brings to a triumphant conclusion his masterly history of a notoriously problematic genre. . . . [He] must be congratulated on this major contribution to historical scholarship.""--Music and Letters|""This book completes one of the most important historical surveys that has been offered to musical scholarship in this generation. Smither has maintained the high levels of research and writing established in the other volumes. His selection of works for detailed treatment amounts to a historical judgment of value which he alone is qualified to make.""--Nicholas Temperley, University of Illinois|""Howard Smither has written what will no doubt become the standard reference work on the history of the oratorio. His painstaking research sheds new light on the social contexts, aesthetic theory, and stylistic development of the genre. The rise and fall of the oratorio is meticulously examined through probing discussions of the familiar masterworks and extended treatments of the various national traditions. All in all, a splendid achievement.""--R. Larry Todd, Duke University
£85.00
The Catholic University of America Press Songs for the Fast and Pascha
Book SynopsisAmong the writers of the Syriac Christian tradition, none is as renowned as St. Ephrem of Nisibis (ca 307-373). The great majority of Ephrem's works are poetry, with the madrase (‘teaching songs’) especially prominent. This volume presents English translations of four complete madrase cycles of Ephrem.
£34.16
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church
Book SynopsisSurvey of an important period in the development of the choral tradition in the Anglican church.When Bernarr Rainbow was director of music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, he came across the 1849 diary of service music of Thomas Helmore. Astonished at its breadth of repertoire, he was inspired to investigate the circumstances of the document. His findings are recorded in this book, which sets Thomas Helmore's contribution in perspective against the background of the Choral Revival as a whole.In tracing the history of the remarkable revival of care for the music of the liturgy, the author produced a socio-musical history of a period vital in the evolution of the Anglican Church, and made clear, probably for the first time, how music in the Anglican Churchcame to follow lines which are unique in Christendom. His book was originally published at a time of important changes in ecclesiastical thinking; his presentation of the decisions taken in the past which led to the existing relationship between choirs and congregations, interesting in itself, is also valuable in the continuing debate.Trade ReviewThis reissued classic is unique in being the only book specifically on the musical history of the Catholic Movement in the CofE. * NEW DIRECTIONS *
£99.00
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English
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£73.15
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English
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