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Author : Michael Marissen
Release : 2014-01-01
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 587/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah by : Michael Marissen
Download or read book Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah written by Michael Marissen. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Judaism in Handel's Messiah.
Author : James Michael Floyd
Release : 2019-05-23
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 632/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Choral Music by : James Michael Floyd
Download or read book Choral Music written by James Michael Floyd. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred choral traditions, choral techniques, choral music education, genre studies, and more, providing an essential reference for researchers and practitioners. Covering monographs, bibliographies, selected dissertations, reference works, journals, electronic databases, and websites, this research guide makes it easy to locate relevant sources. Comprehensive indices of authors, titles, and subjects keep the volume user-friendly. The new edition has been brought up to date with entries encompassing the latest scholarship, and updated references and annotations throughout, capturing the continued growth of literature on choral music since the publication of the second edition.
Author : David Hunter
Release : 2015
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 616/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lives of George Frideric Handel by : David Hunter
Download or read book The Lives of George Frideric Handel written by David Hunter. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Author : Harry White
Release : 2020-09-14
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Musical Discourse of Servitude by : Harry White
Download or read book The Musical Discourse of Servitude written by Harry White. This book was released on 2020-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining, for the first time, the compositions of Johann Joseph Fux in relation to his contemporaries Bach and Handel, The Musical Discourse of Servitude presents a new theory of the late baroque musical imagination. Author Harry White contrasts musical "servility" and "freedom" in his analysis, with Fux tied to the prevailing servitude of the day's musical imagination, particularly the hegemonic flowering of North Italian partimento method across Europe. In contrast, both Bach and Handel represented an autonomy of musical discourse, with Bach exhausting generic models in the mass and Handel inventing a new genre in the oratorio. A potent critique of Lydia Goehr's seminal The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works, The Musical Discourse of Servitude draws on Goehr's formulation of the "work-concept" as an imaginary construct which, according to Goehr, is an invention of nineteenth-century reception history. White locates this concept as a defining agent of automony in Bach's late works, and contextualized the "work-concept" itself by exploring rival concepts of political, religious, and musical authority which define the European musical imagination in the first half of the eighteenth century. A major revisionist statement about the musical imagination in Western art music, The Musical Discourse of Servitude will be of interest to scholars of the Baroque, particularly of Bach and Handel.
Author : Benjamin K. Forrest
Release : 2020-07-30
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hymns and Hymnody, Volume 2 by : Benjamin K. Forrest
Download or read book Hymns and Hymnody, Volume 2 written by Benjamin K. Forrest. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While worship is one of the central functions of the church (along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion) and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions is an introductory textbook in three volumes describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically-grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers that have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 2 begins with the Reformation and extends to the eighteenth-century hymnists and liturgists. Each chapter contains five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The missions of Hymns and Hymnody are to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and to provide a theological analysis of what the cited composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. It is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect is missing in accessible formats for the current literature.
