Sacred & religious music

A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody should be seen as a method to help the artist to develop his or her own way when trying to improvise chromatically. Through the concepts and examples offered, the improvisor should be able to use this ..

In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours o..

The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA. ISBN: 9781912631292P..

An edition with commentary of Handel's exercises for continuo playing which he wrote for the daughters of George II. ISBN: 9780193184336Publisher: Clarendon PressImprint: Clarendon PressPublished date: 15 Nov 1990Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 11..

From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous in..

Noël is a collection of Advent, Christmas and Ephiphany music for mixed-voice choirs. It brings together 47 carols with arrangements by Ralph Allwood, David Hill and Barry Rose. ISBN: 9780711984554Publisher: NovelloImprint: NovelloPublished date: 25..

Experience Rich Mullins's Legacy of Joy and Real Compassion Beloved contemporary Christian musician Rich Mullins lived his life with abandon for God, leaving the spotlight to teach music among a Navajo community. An accident cut his life short in..

ISBN: 9780854767700Publisher: Kingsway PublicationsImprint: Kingsway PublicationsPublished date: 13 May 2011Weight: 1266gHeight: 240mmWidth: 165mmSpine width: 44mm..

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, a court ensemble that performs in courts in Malaysia and Brunei with roots in the Islamicate world since Abbassid times. Raja Iskandar..

The book defines and describes the relationships between Chopin's music and one of the oldest but still used monastic rules, the Rule of Saint Benedict. Its goal is to construct bridges between music and spirituality. Since these two realms both ref..

In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880-1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles lon..

Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the b..