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Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements. This book explores connections between the...

The classical music of India, its history, instruments, musicians, and theory are thoroughly discussed in this copiously illustrated reference.About the AuthorReginald Massey has written on the culture, religion, music and dance of India for leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571539734Author Matthew MartinPage Count 4Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 9g

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands, and yet he remains one of the most neglected of all Habsburg emperors. The underlying premise of...

This book presents together a number of path-breaking essays on different aspects of medieval music in France written by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, who is well known for his work on the medieval cantigas and Iberian liturgical sources. The first essay is a...

The area whose capital was the southern Lombard city of Benevento developed a culture identified with the characteristic form of writing known as the Beneventan script, which was used throughout the area and was brought to perfection at the abbey of...

This essay collection, devoted to exploring the richness of Christian musical traditions in the Americas, reflects the distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, an association of scholars dedicated to exploring...

In the book, music is approached as a sphere of activity where sacred and popular qualities intersect and amalgamate.The book is targeted to scholars and students of music, culture and religion, with a critical emphasis on interdisciplinarity.Will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505122282Author Dr Peter KwasniewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 113g

The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and...

In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803691824Author Francis RoadsFormat PaperbackImprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and experience belief through musical praxis. Contributors from a broad range of...

"Remains of Ritual", Steven M. Friedson's second book on the critical role of music in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the...

Winner of the 2007 AMS Robert M. Stevenson prize The arrival of Francisco de Penalosa at the Aragonese court in May 1498 marks something of an epoch in the history of Spanish music: Penalosa wrote in a mature, northern-oriented style, and his sacred...

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir director and teacher. He...

Say the words "evangelical worship" to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and...

Fifteen powerful a cappella songs from the South African church. Freedom is comingAsikhatali (It Doesn't Matter)Gabi (Praise the Father)IpharadisiSingabahambayo (On Earth an Army is Marching)Siph'amandla (O God, Give Us Power)Akanamandla (He Has No...