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Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
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Tsangnyön Heruka (1452 1507) är en av Tibets främsta litterära personer, mest känd för att på slutet av 1400-talet ha sammanställt det för buddhister så betydelsefulla verket Milarepas livshistoria. Tsangnyön var också en färgstark och inflytelserik yogi, som uppförde sig så udda och okonventionellt att han kom att kallas dåren från Tsang , på tibetanska Tsangnyön.
Tsangnyön Herukas sångsamling trycktes år 1508 som en hyllning till den bortgångna mästaren och gjorde hans insikter tillgängliga för eftervärlden. Den har fram till nu endast funnits i tibetanska blocktryck och religionshistorikern Stefan Larssons svenska version är den första översättningen till ett annat språk.
Verket ger oss en unik inblick i de kringvandrande yogiernas liv, lära och budskap. Samtidigt får vi en bild av Tibet innan Dalai lamorna började styra landet på 1600-talet. Sångerna har dessutom ett allmänmänskligt budskap som gör dem tidlösa och aktuella än idag.
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
214 kr
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»Communio: kommunionsånger för sön- och helgdagar« innehåller kommunionsånger i gregoriansk tradition för alla kyrkoårets sön- och helgdagar. Melodiernas svårighetsgrad är skiftande. Samlingen representerar ett nytt sätt att överföra den gregorianska sången till svenska. Utgåvan är sammanställd av Anders Ekenberg. Häftad, 160 sid.
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
168 kr
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Stiftssånger – Sångbok innehåller tretton nyskrivna sånger som riktar sig till ungdomar inom kyrkan med teman som speglar ungas liv och tro idag. Musikstilarna sträcker sig i spannet från äldre psalmstil till moderna musikstilar, och varje sång har bibelhänvisningar för fördjupande samtal om tro. Sångerna kan användas i ungdomsgrupper, konfirmationsarbete och gudstjänster, och finns inspelade på digitala plattformar som Spotify och YouTube. En körutgåva för ungdomskörer finns tillgänglig.
Spiralbunden.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2005
328 kr
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Einar Ekberg, 1905-1961, var en av 1900-talets främsta andliga sångare i vårt land, älskad av stora åhörarskaror. Han gick bort redan vid 56 års ålder och hade då sjungit in mer än 600 sånger på skiva. En stor del av dessa sånger finns publicerade i denna utgåva. Det var i samband med flytten till Amerika som Einar Ekberg började ge ut en serie häften som kallades Einar Ekbergs Amerikarepertoar. Många av häftena redigerades och arrangerades av Lennart Jernestrand, Ekbergs pianist under många år. Sammanlagt publicerades 13 häften med 178 sånger som så småningom utkom i en samlad utgåva som här föreligger i nyutgåva.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2019, 0-3 år
275 kr
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När man är liten behöver man känna sig betydelsefull och förstå att man är bra som man är att man är viktig. Vi ser olika ut och är bra på olika saker, och det är precis så det ska vara. Alla är vi oersättliga och var och en är ett mästerverk.
Liten och Viktig är en samling sånger som handlar om att vara trygg, älskad och viktig. Sångerna uppmuntrar varje barn att vara tacksam för den man är och att sprida ljus runt omkring sig. Den är fantasifullt och vackert illustrerad av Åsa Resman Appelgren och innehåller allt från äldre sånger till helt nyskrivet material.
Liten och Viktig är den perfekta presenten till det nyfödda barnet, till dopet, barnvälsignelsen eller födelsedagen. Sångerna passar både att sjunga hemma och i barngruppen. Boken innehåller 26 sånger.
Exempel på sånger:
Var inte rädd mitt barn, Det går en liten ängel,
Tänk att du är du, Theos sång,
Du omsluter mig på alla sidor, Det lilla ljus jag har,
Om jag var en igelkott, Ett ljus vill jag va,
Du är ok, Käre Gud, Tusen änglar,
Ögonsten, Jag kan inte vad du kan,
Det finns hundratusende stjärnor, Guds lilla solsken.
Samtliga sånger finns på CD-skivan som följer med boken och sångerna går också att streama via Spotify.
Inbunden, Svenska, 1988
1 190 kr
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Ackompanjemang till 1986 års psalmer nummer 326-784.
Format: 300 x 245 mm.
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
239 kr
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HERRE, ÖPPNA NYA VÄGAR! Sånger i mötet med flyktingar i kyrkanÄr en sångbok med 23 sånger som används i Sånggruppen Asyl i Svenska kyrkan i Söderhamn. Sångboken är användbar för alla som professionellt eller frivilligt engagerar sig, i arbetet med och för flyktingar, i kyrkor och församlingar. Sång och musik bygger broar mellan människor och att sjunga på svenska är också en bra språkträning. Sånggruppen Asyl är öppen för alla som vill sjunga. De flesta av sångerna har vuxit fram utifrån författarnas möten med flyktingar och deras erfarenheter av att vara på flykt ute i världen och här i Sverige. Deltagarna i sånggruppen kommer från många olika länder med skilda modersmål. Sångtexterna är skrivna på svenska och ska sjungas på svenska men finns översatta till engelska, persiska och arabiska. Noter och ackord finns till alla sånger. Sångerna är lättsjungna också för dem som inte är så vana vid att sjunga i grupp.Bo Korsár, som skrivit andliga sånger alltsedan 1970-talet, har komponerat musiken och han och hans hustru Karin Sundin-Korsár, som tillsammans leder Sånggruppen Asyl, har skrivit texterna.
Kartonnage, Svenska, 2019
280 kr
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I över femtio år har de varit ett av den kristna musikens allra mest kända och uppskattade sångarpar. För första gången delar de med sig av sin nästan osannolika resa och livsberättelse som garanterat kommer att fängsla och beröra. Boken är lika mycket en biografi som det är en personlig berättelse om de historiska förhållandena inom Pingströrelsen. Öppet och rakt på sak berättar de fängslande om både glädjeämnen och framgångar, och om fascinerande människor de mött både i Sverige och i USA, där de bott och verkat under många år. Utan bitterhet och hämnd skildras även kyrkopolitik, falskhet och ofattbara svek, som få känner till, men som oväntat hotade att beröva dem både livet och karriären. Det är även en skildring hur överlåtelsen till Jesus och längtan efter mer av Hans Ande också förde dem utanför samfundets gräns. Genom allt har deras kallelse till entreprenörskap och kreativitet, även under svåra tider, alltid funnit nya vägar framåt. ”Mycket välskriven och lättläst, svårt att lägga ifrån sig boken …” Kerstin o Owe Carlsson ”Det är inte många sångare och musiker som genom åren fått så många öppna dörrar för sin musik som Anette och Eric.” Linda Bergling ”Oj, vilket dramatiskt och spännande liv de levt!” Ingemar Helmner
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
196 kr
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En sångbok med text och noter som innehåller 59 av Ingvar Holmberg sångtexter och melodier med ackordanalys och i vissa fall sångstämmor. Under 59 år sen 1967 har Ingvar författat och komponerat över 300 sånger. Här finns ett urval från hela perioden och i olika kategorier - lovsång, bön, klagan, tacksamhet, proklamation av Guds storhet, bibeltexter och undervisning, barnsånger och förundran över skapelsen och naturens skönhet.
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried tomake the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who wantto study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.
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for SATB and chamber ensembleMagnificat is a joyous celebration of the Virgin Mary, inspired by feast-day festivities in countries such as Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Following the example set by Bach, the Magnificat text is extended, incorporating the fifteenth-century English poem 'Of a Rose', the prayers 'Sancta Maria', and the 'Sanctus' (set to the Gregorian chant of the Missa cum jubilo). The full scores, for orchestra or chamber ensemble, are now available on sale for the first time in handsome, cloth-bound editions, and the newly set orchestral parts are available on hire.
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for SATB and orchestraMagnificat is a joyous celebration of the Virgin Mary, inspired by feast-day festivities in countries such as Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Following the example set by Bach, the Magnificat text is extended, incorporating the fifteenth-century English poem 'Of a Rose', the prayers 'Sancta Maria', and the 'Sanctus' (set to the Gregorian chant of the Missa cum jubilo). The full scores, for orchestra or chamber ensemble, are now available on sale for the first time in handsome, cloth-bound editions, and the newly set orchestral parts are available on hire.
297 kr
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for SATB and orchestra Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supported by a pulsing orchestral accompaniment.
780 kr
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for SATB and orchestra Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supported by a pulsing orchestral accompaniment.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 298 kr
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Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
357 kr
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Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 469 kr
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Johann Sebastian Bach's works are often classified as either sacred or secular. While this distinction is fraught, it seems to provide a useful way to distinguish between Bach's vocal works for the liturgy and those he wrote to honor courts and members of the nobility. But even so, the lines cannot be drawn clearly. The political and social systems of the time relied on religion as an ideological foundation, and public displays of political power almost always included religious rituals and thus required some form of sacred music. Social constructs, such as class and gender, were also embedded in religious frameworks.In Bach in the World, author Markus Rathey offers a new exploration of how Bach's music functioned as an agent of affective communication within rituals, such as the installation of the town council, and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged. The book does so by analyzing public manifestations of the social order during Bach's time in large-scale celebrations, processions, public performances, and visual displays.
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
762 kr
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The distinguished German conductor Hermann Scherchen, 1891-1966, became a legend in his own time as a supremely knowledgeable, inspiring, and uncompromising advocate of the most demanding orchestral repertoire. The founder of the Berlin Society of New Music, he was an ardent champion of twentieth-century music, especially that of Schoenberg, with whom he worked, and of Webern. He settled in Switzerland in 1933 and was for six years the conductor of the Zurich Radio Orchestra. His classic handbook offers an admirably full and clear analysis of the technique of conducting, at the same time giving a fascinating glimpse of orchestral life in Scherchen's time. First published in 1933, it has lost none of its ability to inspire and instruct aspiring conductors. It will be of absorbing interest, furthermore, to any musician or concert-goer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
684 kr
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 341 kr
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Handel's English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his first anthem and the Utrecht Te Deum were composed soon after his arrival in London, and his last works nearly 40 years later. The repertory, which includes the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, forms one of the most impressive and engaging areas of Baroque church music. Most of it was stimulated by Handel's creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre.This is the first full-length study of Handel's English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel's constant but changing relationship with the Hanoverian British royal family, and was affected by political and dynastic events. It also examines the circumstances of Handel's performances, the building which (unlike his theatres) still survives in London today.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
3 999 kr
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 468 kr
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From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America's newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music's split into southern gospel and black gospel. Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
574 kr
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From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the “dean of American church musicians.” Yet in time, Sowerby’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Canticle of the Sun and the rest of his corpus lost favor with the A-list symphonies and prominent musicians who had once made him a fixture in their repertoires. Joseph Sargent’s biography offers the first focused study of Sowerby’s life and work against the backdrop of the composer’s place in American music. As Sargent shows, Sowerby’s present-day marginalization as a composer relates less to the quality of his work than the fact that today’s historiographical practices and canon-building activities minimize modern church music. Sargent’s re-evaluation draws on a wide range of perspectives and composer’s music and writings to enrich detailed analyses of musical works and a career-spanning consideration of Sowerby’s musical language and aesthetic priorities.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 254 kr
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William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
407 kr
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Randy Travis's 1986 breakthrough put him at the forefront of Nashville's new traditionalist sound and, in the words of Garth Brooks, saved country music. The singer's warm baritone and all-time classic songs like "Forever and Ever, Amen" landed him atop the charts sixteen times. His cross-genre appeal brought a level of multiplatinum success that no country artist before him had ever achieved.Diane Diekman's biography follows the life and career of one of country music's most beloved figures. Steered from a troubled path as a teen, Travis served a long apprenticeship under manager and future wife Lib Hatcher before being rejected by the Nashville music industry as "too country." The single "On the Other Hand" and his smash debut album did away with the doubters and began a dominant four-year run that stretched into ongoing success as a recording artist, trailblazing live performer, and actor in film and television. Diekman uses dozens of interviews and in-depth research to fill in the details of Travis's pre-fame life and his enormous impact on country, popular, and gospel music. From there, she pivots to telling the story of the singer's difficult divorce from Hatcher, subsequent problems with alcohol and run-ins with the law, and the challenges he overcame in the aftermath of a devastating 2013 stroke.Informed by a wealth of new research and interviews, Randy Travis is the first in-depth biography of the country music legend.
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Engelska, 2021390 kr
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From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver''s impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America''s newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music''s split into southern gospel and black gospel.
Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
358 kr
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From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America's newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music's split into southern gospel and black gospel. Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
276 kr
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William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
286 kr
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An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues, drawing from the group's private archiveThe Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in America. Their story intersects with pivotal moments and issues in American history and is an ideal prism through which to trace music, culture, history, and race in America. Spirit of the Century invites readers to follow along the Blind Boys' eight-decade journey together from a segregated trade school, through the rough and tumble indie record game and grinding tour schedule of the golden age of gospel, to starring in an iconic Broadway musical, performing at the White House for three presidents twice, collaborating with Tom Petty, Lou Reed, and Ben Harper, among others, singing the theme song for "The Wire," and winning five Grammys. More than just a story of the Blind Boys' illustrious career, Spirit of the Century also sheds new light on the larger world of African American gospel music, its origins, and the colorful characters at its center. Though there have been several iterations of the group over the decades, Spirit of the Century rounds up all surviving members of the group as contributors to the telling of their own story, and a result, the book offers a unique and intimate perspective on the group's enduring success. Current drummer and road manager Rickie McKinney has been with the group throughout its renaissance, while guitarist Joey Williams, the group's sighted member, has been the eyes of the Blind Boys since 1992. Octogenarian Jimmy Lee Carter has a fascinating history, as a fellow student of the original but deceased Blind Boys Clarence Fountain, George Scott, Olice Thomas, Johnny Fields, J.T. Hutton, and Velma Traylor at the Talladega school. Carter is one of a few performers who have been in both the Blind Boys of Alabama and Mississippi. He fronts the Alabama group today as a classic quartet leader and fiery preacher. Along with extensive interviews of Fountain, these legendary musicians provide this book with the voice, firsthand perspective, and authenticity that bring their story the same inspirational power that you hear in their songs.Thought-provoking, heartfelt, and deeply inspiring, Spirit of the Century is a fascinating and one-of-a-kind read that you won't be able to put down.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
460 kr
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Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas, However, Sullivan was far from being simply a composer of light operettas. At the height of his fame and popularity in late Victorian Britain, Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Yet despite his contemporary popularity and enduring legacy, little attention has been given to Sullivan's sacred work. The last twenty years have seen a considerable revival of interest in and critical appreciation for this aspect of Sullivan's work. Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers provides the first detailed, comprehensive, critical study and review of Sullivan's church and sacred music. As well as exploring issues of repertoire and ecclesiology involved in these and other formative influences and experiences, consideration will be given to how far Sullivan's own personal beliefs and faith influenced his settings of sacred texts and the extent to which his own spiritual and theological leaning are expressed in his choice of material and style of setting. Sullivan's motivation in setting religious texts will be probed and comparison will be made with the motivation, output and approach of his closest contemporaries in this field, most notably Stainer.