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Author : Casey Flynn
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553288322
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Most Ancient Song written by Casey Flynn and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Dumbrill
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412055385
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East written by Richard J. Dumbrill and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume is a massive leap forward over any previous synthesis of the subject and includes at the very minimum so much information that its academic and scientific value is self evident. The freshness and profundity of Dumbrill's approach to the subject exceeds anything attempted before. 'The mythology of ancient Mesopotamia proves readable as tonal allegory when its numerology is decoded as tuning theory. By the third millennium BC both pentatonic and heptatonic tunings were quantified throughout the entire 12-tone gamut. Richard Dumbrill has documented the massive empirical experience with strings and pipes that makes this early musicalization of the universe believable.' The volume consists in 4 parts with foreword by Prof. Ernest McClain. The first is about the decipherment, translation and interpretation of the few theoretical cuneiform texts dating from the Old Babylonian period, about 2000 BC, to Neo Assyrian up to the mid first millennium BC. Dumbrill undertakes comparative analyses and criticism of various interpretations having preceded his own and introduces new material. The second part is about the Hurrian hymns, the earliest music ever written, circa 1400 BC, and are produced in their integrality. Attempts to the interpretation of Hymn H.6 are compared and followed by Dumbrill's methodology and interpretation. Each fragment of the collection is analyzed separately. The part concludes with statistical analyses attempting at the reconstruction of some Hurrian rules of composition. The third part consists in the organology with relevant philology and is the largest collection of the Mesopotamian instrumentarium. The last part is a unique lexicon of all known Mesopotamian terminology, with quotation of texts in which the philology appears. The book had been previously published under the title of 'The Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East' and now appears under its new title.
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932880
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book English Folk Songs written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Author : Carl Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Music of the Most Ancient Nations written by Carl Engel and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Music of the Most Ancient Nations, Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews written by Carl Engel and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dumbrill
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244754764
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Semitic Music Theory written by Richard Dumbrill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses eight cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern Music theory, essential to the understanding of Ancient Semitic Music, to a level never achieved before. The author explains why previous interpretations had been misapprehended because they were analysed with Western musicological methods, and addresses these problems.
Author : John Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Chronological Antiquities: Or, the Antiquities and Chronology of the Most Ancient Kingdoms from the Creation of the World of the Space of Five Thousand Years written by John Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chronological Antiquities: Or, The Antiquities and Chronology of the Most Ancient Kingdoms, from the Creation of the World, for the Space of Five Thousand Years written by John Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Ruffer
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN 13 : 9781848257030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Organ Edition written by Tim Ruffer and published by Canterbury Press Norwich. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most famous hymn book has been completely revised and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and modern compositions, from the Psalms to John Bell, Bernadette Farrell and Stuart Townend. Its 847 items have been specially selected for their singability, theological richness and relevance. Organ edition. 2 volume set.
Author : John G Landels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134704860
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Music in Ancient Greece and Rome written by John G Landels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include: * contexts in which music played a role * a detailed discussion of instruments * an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning * the principal types of rhythm used * and an exploration of Greek theories of harmony and acoustics. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome also contains numerous musical examples, with illustrations of ancient instruments and the methods of playing them.
Author : Christopher C. King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324900X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music written by Christopher C. King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2018 In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition. In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the strangest—and most hypnotic—sounds he had ever heard. The 78s were immensely moving, seeming to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible through contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre-Homeric era. To hear this music is to hear the past. Lament from Epirus is an unforgettable journey into a musical obsession, which traces a unique genre back to the roots of song itself. As King hunts for two long-lost virtuosos—one of whom may have committed a murder—he also tells the story of the Roma people who pioneered Epirotic folk music and their descendants who continue the tradition today. King discovers clues to his most profound questions about the function of music in the history of humanity: What is the relationship between music and language? Why do we organize sound as music? Is music superfluous, a mere form of entertainment, or could it be a tool for survival? King’s journey becomes an investigation into song and dance’s role as a means of spiritual healing—and what that may reveal about music’s evolutionary origins.
Author : Anna Pellicioli
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524741043
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Song of the Old City written by Anna Pellicioli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical, whimsical picture book, set in the old city of Istanbul, celebrates kindness and generosity of spirit. Follow one little girl on her busy day through the old city of Istanbul--from the Galata bridge to the Grand Bazaar--as the city opens its arms to her. All along the way, the generous people she meets share many gifts with her: sesame rounds, hot tea, a boat ride, rose candy, pomegranate juice, even a scrub in a Turkish bath! But she doesn't just keep the gifts for herself. At every turn, she finds a way to share what has been given to her and pass it on so others can enjoy it too. With poetic text and radiant artwork, author Anna Pellicioli and Turkish illustrator Merve Atilgan bring us this heartwarming tale of kindness and generosity in the city known as the crossroads of the world.
Author : James Grande
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501376381
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by James Grande and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to opera, from parlour song to pantomime, and from hymn to broadside, nineteenth-century Britons continually encountered elements of the biblical past in song. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.
Author : Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Music of the Bible Revealed written by Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1991 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation by Dennis Weber, edited by John Wheeler and jointly published with King David's Harp, in which a noted French musicologist argues that the accentual system preserved in the Masoretic Text was originally a method of recording hand signals (chironomy) by which temple musicians were directed in the performance of music. She explains her reconstruction of these notations which has allowed her to perform haunting and beautiful music around the worlds using only the Hebrew text as a score.
Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1705154441
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Best Modern Christmas Songs written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This collection features over 20 popular modern Christmas songs by today's top artists arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames. Includes: Christmas Lights (Coldplay) * Christmas Saves the Year (Twenty One Pilots) * Christmas Tree Farm (Taylor Swift) * Cozy Little Christmas (Katy Perry) * Everyday Is Christmas (Sia) * Glittery (Kacey Musgraves) * Hallelujah (Carrie Underwood & John Legend) * He Shall Reign Forevermore (Chris Tomlin) * I Need You Christmas (Jonas Brothers) * Light of the World (Lauren Daigle) * Mistletoe (Justin Bieber) * Santa Tell Me (Ariana Grande) * Underneath the Tree (Kelly Clarkson) * and more.
Author : Séamus O'Connell
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 9783525530108
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From Most Ancient Sources written by Séamus O'Connell and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slight revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University, Fribourg, 1995.
Author : Hermann Smith
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465610634
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book The World's Earliest Music: Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands written by Hermann Smith and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE human interest in the past never dies, its hold upon us increases with the growing years, and every gain that is made to the store of knowledge does but add to the zest with which we search for more; nation vies with nation for the glory of recovering relics of life that are strewn along the path of death. From the sands and from the tombs, from the paintings and the graven tablets, and from the faces of the rocks we rehabilitate the vision of the mighty dead; a recovered name is a page of a people’s history, and we seek with renewal of eagerness for the pages that should follow or precede. The long buried spoils of temples and palaces excite the imagination, the grandeur of gold and silver, the wealth of art and ornament, and the resplendent jewels, appeal to the love of power and of possession, active or dormant in every heart; yet not less do we treasure the fragile mementoes, the simplest things, rendered up from the past that were the surroundings of domestic life, that speak to us of the household ways, and of the personal pursuits of the men, and of the adornment of the women who for untold ages have ever sought “their pleasure in their power to charm.” The instruments of music that in the remoter ages of the past were in daily use are seldom found, for the nature of the materials of which they were constructed was adverse to their preservation; those that have been found are rarely in their original condition, perfect in all their parts, or suitable for being put to the test of playing, and the resource left to us is to obtain some approximate condition by means of models, and then adapt some modern method for eliciting sound, which method as near as we can judge shall be the counterpart of the original device.
