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A fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time.

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Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. Insightful commentaries and a highly readable text combine to focus on all contemporary musical styles from the most traditional to the most experimental in relation to modern American life.

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Here is Aled Jones' selection of his favourite hymns, ranked from number one through to forty.

Aled brings the hymns vividly to life with his own reminiscences of performing them and thoughts on why each is such a winner, and he garners the experiences of today's great singers and composers.

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The 20th century, especially the latter decades, was a time of explosive growth and importance in hymnody, and yet published material about the hymnody of this period has been scattered and difficult to come by.

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Experiencing Jewish Music in America offers an accessible exploration of the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the U.S. This survey on the art of listening to this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites listeners from all walks of life to enjoy the many types of Jewish music available in their communities.

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This ecumenical essay collection explores the rich Christian song tradition across its two-thousand-year history and around the globe. Employing a variety of methodologies and approaches, contributors engage the topic of spirituality in music in order to reveal both the diversity and the unifying power of Christian sacred music.

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How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century What precursors might there have been to the notational system used in all the surviving manuscripts In answering such questions, this work seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchant.

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Drawing from both Testaments, this title ranges musically from madrigal to aria, with an unvarying transparency of expression, imbued with humility and grace. It is suitable for those seeking a greater familiarity with the cornerstones of Western Classical Music - operatic, choral and symphonic.

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This monograph, translated from the original Danish, concentrates on the plan and execution of 'Messiah', its singers and performances, manuscripts and editions, and aesthetics. . . . For all scholarly collections. Library Journal

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, and specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, and instruments.

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This book analyses the role of music in processes of religious change in contemporary progressive Judaism. Based on ethnographic research conducted in London, it illustrates a growing trend among progressive Jews in the West today: the desire to combine liberal theology with forms of practice experienced as more traditional.

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Using a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume explores ethical and doctrinal implications in the social practice of music. Grouped according to the threefold ministry of Christ (prophet, priest, shepherd) the essays discuss a wide range of musicsfrom medieval chant and psalmody to protest songs, metal, and Daft Punk.

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Provides a history of gospel music. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, this book shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians.