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Books on: religious music history

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Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on Religious Music among the Primitive and Ancient Peoples

Book by Edward Dickinson; Charles Scribners Sons, 1902

Subjects:

Church Music

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of the monumental figures in the religious history of Germany, undoubtedly the most...himself squarely on German church music, particularly the essentially...The most musical family known to history was that of the Bachs. In six...
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The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music

Book by Don Cusic; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990

Subjects:

Gospel Music--History And Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...tradition will become entrenched, then challenged by a new revival led by music, which will alter the music of the church again. This has been the history of music in religious revivals from Martin Luthers day to the Jesus Movement of the 1970s.
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A History of Music

Book by Theodore M. Finney; Harcourt Brace, 1935

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Music--History And Criticism

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...entertainers at the courts, but they composed and performed dance songs, musical plays, and religious masques. During this phase in the history of music two men stand out as being not only men of great genius but men of great historical importance...
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Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture

Book by Irene Heskes; Greenwood Press, 1994

Subjects:

Jews--Music--History And Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...scientific" study of music history began to attract European...section devoted to "Hebrew Music of the Present Day...susceptibility and fondness for music which the ancient Hebrew...Israel. His volume, Music in the Old Testament...Jewish and Christian religious music. 7 It was Eric...
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An Illustrated History of Music

Book by Marc Pincherle, Georges Bernier, Rosamond Bernier, Rollo Myers; Reynal, 1959

Subjects:

Music In Art, Music--History And Criticism--Pictorial Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...composer whereas his sacred music is quite as fine and...believe that if this History came to be re-published...which, so far as sacred music is concerned, is now...Opera, Lied, and religious music in the Teutonic countries...

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Journal Articles on: religious music history

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The Question of Music in American Judaism: Reflections at 350 Years *

Journal article by Jonathan D. Sarna; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003

Subjects:

American Jews--History, American Jews--Religious aspects, American Jews--Social aspects, Jewish music--Analysis, Jewish music--History, Jewish music--Religious aspects, Jewish music--Social aspects, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Religious aspects, Jews, American--Social aspects, Music, Jewish--Analysis, Music, Jewish--History, Music, Jewish--Religious aspects, Music, Jewish--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Jewish practice through organ music, mixed seating, or other means. Proponents of religious reform could proceed virtually...Nym Cooke, "Sacred Music to 1800," The Cambridge History of American Music, ed. David Nicholls...
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Reading the Video: A Qualitative Study of Religious Images in Music Videos

Journal article by Kathy B. Mckee, Carol J. Pardun; Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 43, 1999

Subjects:

Music videos--Religious aspects, Religion and music--Media coverage

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Another found the religious implications in the...think a lot of times religious symbols are used for...in what conservative religious people would call blasphemous...been diffused in recent history, and I think the picture...hear, and I hear the music, and I hear the beat...
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Music and Liturgy in an English College Chapel King's College, Cambridge

Journal article by Dale A. Johnson; Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 69, 2000

Subjects:

Cambridge University, Colleges & universities, Music, Religious buildings, Rites & ceremonies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Music and Liturgy in...Johnson The English religious establishment...of a regular religious program and life...of the chapels history, construction...the best of a religious establishment...tradition in music and liturgy with...
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Black Music and Writing Black Music History: American Music and Narrative Strategies

Journal article by Samuel A. Floyd Jr.; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 28, 2008

Subjects:

Black music--Criticism and interpretation, Black music--Portrayals, Music history--Educational aspects, Music history--Portrayals, Music, Black--Criticism and interpretation, Music, Black--Portrayals, Music--Educational aspects, Music--Historiography, Music--Portrayals

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...present to some degree in most of the music that emanated from black culture in the...egregious fault in the writing of black music history is the omission of the relationship between religious music in the circum-Caribbean and black music...
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A Region in Harmony: Southern Music and the Sound Track of Freedom

Journal article by Charles Joyner; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

Subjects:

Dance music--Analysis, Dance music--History, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a major turning point in the history of country music--away from the older Anglo...gospel music of both races. Religious music was always the bedrock of southern...testified to the influence of religious music on their early musical orientations...

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Magazine Articles on: religious music history

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The History Boys: Algeria's El Gusto Hark Back to a Golden Age of Religious Tolerance, Writes Rachel Aspden

Magazine article by Rachel Aspden; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 5, 2007

Subjects:

Algerian history--Portrayals, Folk music--History, Musical groups--Performances, Musical groups--Works, Religious tolerance--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The History Boys: Algerias El...to a Golden Age of Religious Tolerance, Writes...perfectly fitted to the music they played. Chaabi...different from the music some of these artists...political golden age. History and politics, not...
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Bling and Blessings: Thoughts on the Intersections of Rap Music and Religious Meaning

Magazine article by Anthony B. Pinn; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Summer 2007

Subjects:

Art and religion--Evaluation, Rap (Music)--Religious aspects, Rap music--Religious aspects, Religiousness--Influence

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...practice that plagues the history of religion in and outside...exercise and explain the religious, explicit theological or religious pronouncements in rap music are worth time and attention...benefit of those in religious studies, cultural studies...
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Religious Change and the Laity in England: Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke Look at the Ways Ordinary People Responded to Religious Changes within Their Places of Worship from the Reformation to the Restoration

Magazine article by Kenneth Fincham, Nicholas Tyacke; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008

Subjects:

Conversion (Religion)--Social aspects, Conversion--Social aspects, Religion--Historiography, Religious history

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...on organs and church music. As a result organs...glass windows containing religious imagery; first in the...of Clarendon, whose History of the Rebellion makes...influence the direction of religious change, coming to control...provide a template for religious worship. An early straw...
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Face of Music

Magazine article by Susan Milius; Natural History, Vol. 110, December 2001

Subjects:

Culture, History, Music, Society

Collections: History, Entire Library

...that anthropologists have observed has its own music. (Music may be forbidden in some cultures at some points in their history, but repression of music is not the same as the absence of the desire to...
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Gospel: the Root of Popular Music

Magazine article; The New Crisis, Vol. 106, July 1999

Subjects:

Black history, Popular music, Religious music

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Dorsey performed both secular and religious music. In 1928, for example, he...to devote himself to a form of religious music that historian Michael W. Harris...recordings. In the 1920s, black religious music became popular with the race...

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Newspaper Articles on: religious music history

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Passion of the Proms; Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Belief in the Music Extravaganza That Begins on Friday Is Almost Religious. If Only, He Says, a New Audience Could Be Tempted to Try It

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 13, 2005

Subjects:

Gardiner, John Eliot

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Gardiners Belief in the Music Extravaganza That Begins on Friday Is Almost Religious. If Only, He Says...serious exploration of music with marine associations...artist. "Its a quirk of history that so much of his music has been eclipsed by...
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MUSIC: Exploring the Long History of Gospel Music; A Gospel Concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday Is the Culmination of a Research Project by Young People in Aston, Writes Terry Grimley

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 24, 2007

Subjects:

Concerts--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Exploring the Long History of Gospel Music; A Gospel Concert at...explore the story of gospel music from the time of slavery...community." Gospel music - often described as...think Birmingham is a religious city." Kajans presents...
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Abe Lincoln, in Lyrics Chris Vallillo Uses Folk Music to Show the Legacy of Our 16th President

Newspaper article by Jamie Greco; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 9, 2006

Subjects:

Folk music, Poetry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with a process called music collecting, an effort...an historic record of music that might otherwise...researched into a body of music that I perform that illustrates Midwestern history." Much of what Vallillo...he was not outwardly religious," Vallillo said. Vallillo...
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Devil Art MCA Exhibition Connects the Dots between Rock Music and the Avant Garde

Newspaper article by Mark Guarino; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 12, 2007

Subjects:

Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Musicians, Rock music

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...intersection of the art and music worlds and with art schools...roughnecks - reimagined as a religious beacon. Artwork aching...connection with rock music deserves to be more provocative...exhibitions end is a history of Destroy All Monsters...immortalized Detroits music legends through wall...
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Classical Music Comes Home

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 3, 2011

Subjects:

Classical music, Musicians, Wales. National Assembly for Wales

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...lecturer in the School of Music at Bangor University...During the Victorian era, music in Wales was predominantly...peasant art, to which religious, social and national...Serious instrumental music, chamber music and symphonic...century set Welsh musical history into vigorous motion...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: religious music history

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Church Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...motet ; plainsong . 2 Music intended for performance...repertory above as well as music of religious content, e.g., oratorios...cantatas and instrumental music that is not specifically...Dickinson, Music in the History of the Western Church...
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Gospel Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GOSPEL MUSIC American religious musical form that owes...American South. Gospel music partly evolved from the...1971); L. Gentry, A History and Encyclopedia of Country and Western and Gospel Music (1961, repr. 1972...
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Greek Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...understood. The earliest music is virtually unknown...cent. b.c., choral music was used in the drama...Apollo and restricted to religious and hymnic use. This...Finally, ancient Greek music lost its vitality and...period. Early in its history, Greek music benefited...
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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the development of contrapuntal music, or music that hinged on the pleasing interplay...Palestrina also composed mainly religious music. He distinguished himself with...Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996...
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Rome , City, Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...restoring to Rome in the religious field the importance...utterly in 1453. The history of Rome became more...as absolute, more religious tolerance (particularly...city. The splendor of religious ceremonies, as well...the popes to art, music, classical and archaeological...Ancient Rome General histories of ancient Rome are...

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