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Author : George Wilmeth Ewing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870740008
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Well-tempered Lyre written by George Wilmeth Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188122
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 written by Colleen McDannell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context--making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets. Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women.
Author : the late Robert James Branham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195350294
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Sweet Freedom's Song written by the late Robert James Branham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it isn't the official national anthem, America may be the most important and interesting patriotic song in our national repertoire. Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America is a celebration and critical exploration of the complicated musical, cultural and political roles played by the song America over the past 250 years. Popularly known as My Country 'Tis of Thee and as God Save the King/Queen before that this tune has a history as rich as the country it extols. In Sweet Freedom's Song, Robert Branham and Stephen Hartnett chronicle this song's many incarnations over the centuries. Colonial Americans, Southern slaveowners, abolitionists, temperance campaigners and labor leaders, among others, appropriated and adapted the tune to create anthems for their own struggles. Because the song has been invoked by nearly every grassroots movement in American history, the story of America offers important insights on the story of democracy in the United States. An examination of America as a historical artifact and cultural text, Sweet Freedoms Song is a reflection of the rebellious spirit of Americans throughout our nations history. The late Robert James Branham and his collaborator, Stephen Hartnett, have produced a thoroughly-researched, delightfully written book that will appeal to scholars and patriots of all stripes.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521266871
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (668 download)
Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.
Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557475
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Music as Medicine written by Peregrine Horden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus on the place of music therapy in European intellectual, medical and musical traditions, from their classical roots to the development of the music therapy profession since the Second World War. Chapters covering the Judaic, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian traditions add global, comparative perspectives. Music as Medicine is the first book to establish the whole shape of the history of music therapy in a systematic and scholarly way. It addresses the problem of defining what music therapy has meant in different cultures and periods, and sets the agenda for future research in the subject. It will appeal to a diverse readership of historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and practitioners.
Author : Ovid Ovid
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674059042
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid written by Ovid Ovid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.
Author : H. Paul Thompson, Jr.
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756672
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Most Stirring and Significant Episode written by H. Paul Thompson, Jr. and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the United States to do so. A Most Stirring and Significant Episode examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible—as well as the forces that resulted in its 1887 reversal well before the 18th Amendment to the Constitution created a national prohibition in 1919. H. Paul Thompson Jr.'s research also sheds light on the profoundly religious nature of African American involvement in the temperance movement. Contrary to the prevalent depiction of that movement as being one predominantly led by white, female activists like Carrie Nation, Thompson reveals here that African Americans were central to the rise of prohibition in the south during the 1880s. As such, A Most Stirring and Significant Episode offers a new take on the proliferation of prohibition and will not only speak to scholars of prohibition in the US and beyond, but also to historians of religion and the African American experience.
Author : Leonard Fox
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838751169
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Jew's Harp written by Leonard Fox and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents the first complete study of the Jew's harp -- its history, use, playing techniques, and manufacture -- richly supplemented with biographies of virtuosi of the instrument, a geo-linguistic survey of terms, data on composed music, and a bibliographical and discographical essay with numerous musical examples. Illustrated.
Author : Sara Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319931
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories written by Sara Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom. Based on contemporary sources, Gonzalez is able to unravel the complex iconography of Spanish politics.
Author : Mary Stanly Bunce Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Western Harp, a collection of Sunday music, etc written by Mary Stanly Bunce Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marsilio Ficino
Publisher : Letters of Marsilio Ficino
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Letters of Marsilio Ficino. This book was released on 1975 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many deep thinking people turned to Marsilio Ficino for help. Through his letters he advised, encouraged, and occasionally reproved them. Fearlessly he expressed the truth and his wisdom influenced many of the finest Western minds. He numbered statesmen, popes, artists, scientists, and philosophers amongst his circle.
Author : Daniel N. Rolph
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498442
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (984 download)
Download or read book "To Shoot, Burn, and Hang" written by Daniel N. Rolph and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the oral accounts in conjunction with public records and documents, as well as the latest scholarship, Rolph probes deeply into the collective attitudes revealed by these episodes and places them in historical and cultural context.
Author : David Ledbetter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128983
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bach's Well-tempered Clavier written by David Ledbetter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's Well-tempered Clavier (or the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This invaluable guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the music, describes the rich traditions on which he drew, and provides commentaries for each prelude and fugue. In his text, David Ledbetter addresses the main focal points mentioned by Bach in his original 1722 title page. Drawing on Bach literature over the past three hundred years, he explores German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them; explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early eighteenth-century developments; reviews instructive and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750; and discusses Bach's pedagogical intent when composing the Well-tempered Clavier. Ledbetter's commentaries on individual preludes and fugues equip readers with the concepts necessary to make their own assessment and include information about the sources when details of notation, ornaments, and fingerings have a bearing on performance.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618382019
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The New Well-tempered Sentence written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.
Author : M. L. West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199605033
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Hellenica written by M. L. West and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from about 90 of West's publications.
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300389X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Ancient Greek Lyrics written by and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William E. McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric while Barnstone provides a brief biographical and literary sketch for each poet and adds a substantial introduction to Sappho -- revised for this edition -- complete with notes and sources. A glossary and updated bibliography are included.
Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317092384
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Bennett Zon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.
