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Polyphone Messen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 50.04Hauptbeschreibung Die polyphone Messe galt von der Mitte des 15. bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts in der praktischen Musikausübung und ihrer theoretischen Reflexion als die zentrale Ausdrucksform der abendländischen Kunstmusik, innerhalb derer sich die maßgeblichen kompositorischen Entwicklungen vollzogen. Um 1500 reifte zudem die Sensibilität für... more...
Body Piercing Saved My Life
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 16.95A riveting, in-depth, behind-the-scenes account of the subculture of modern Christian rock music, which saw estimated sales of one billion dollars in 2003 alone more...
Music in the Seventeenth Century
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 64.00Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music. more...
The Color of Sound
NYU Press 2013; US$ 79.00Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved... more...
Russians on Russian Music, 1880-1917
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 51.00This second anthology of Russian music criticism brings for the first time to an English-speaking readership the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880-1917. These years found Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin in their prime, and saw several new generations emerge. more...
Analyzing Bach Cantatas
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 60.00Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. more...
Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 114.95This collection of essays explores the interrelationship of music and theology in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book examines the role of music in the diverse religious life of a century that encompassed the Oxford Movement, Catholic Emancipation, religious revivals involving many different... more...
I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 24.00The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn’t performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings where, as the a cappella singers face each other around a hollow square, the massed voices take... more...
Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 99.00A survey of the huge importance of Thomas Tallis, the `Father of Church Music', on Victorian musical life. This book examines in detail the reception of two works that lie at the stylistic extremes of his output: Spem in alium, revived in the 1830s, t more...
Christopher Columbus
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2004; US$ 8.99Christopher Columbus set out on August 3, 1492, to find the East by sailing west. Over the course of a few years, he convinced the king and queen of Spain to pay for his trip, promising them fame and riches in return. Columbus discovered more than he bargained for?he had found a new continent. more...









