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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Religious Music"”.
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Musical Listening Interest, Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Factors as Predictors of Test Anxiety Among Students of a Christian University in Jamaica
… test anxiety generally, and test anxiety and music listening interest in particular, in the Caribbean region. This deficit is made even more distinct by the numerous studies that exist on test anxiety elsewhere and the effect it has on students’ behavior and performance in the classroom.</p> …
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Sacred Music in Public Schools: A Historical Consideration of Policy and Practice
… activity violates their freedoms of religion or religious beliefs. (2) The music selected for use in public school classrooms must support musical learning objectives. To the greatest extent possible, music should be chosen objectively, for its educational merit, not for its religious …
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
The earliest European Christian (Catholic) music was exclusively vocal. Western music's Renaissance (c.1400-1600) brought about independent instrumental music. However, the idea that religious sentiment could be expressed non-vocally, in non-liturgical contexts, on instruments not associated with …
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Korean Shamanism and Music: An Analysis of Korean Shamanism and Its Musical Influence with Particular Reference to the Komungo
… presents the history and development of the musical instruments of ancient Korea with reflections on their shamanistic origins and themes. This paper presents a first translation from Korean to English of Book Thirty-Two of the <em>Samguk Sagi</em> in order to introduce Korean Shamanism and …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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Through the Prism of the Wellspring: From National, to Societal, to Individual in Marin Goleminov's String Quartets
… time clearly influenced the development of his musical style; however, the mature and distinct voice that emerged during the 1960s and continued through the remainder of his career has roots that can be traced back to his first compositions. This thesis seeks to examine how governmental and …
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Aesthetics of the Unseen: The Sacred Music of Grzegorz Gorczycki in Turbulent Times of Eighteenth-Century Kraków, Poland.
<p>In the Middle Ages, music was perceived as a measurable discipline that dealt with sound, time, and motion, a discipline based on mathematical principles. Although music lost its place among the sciences in academia and nowadays it is considered part of the arts, still no other discipline but …
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The Concept of God and Sacred Music Style : an Intercultural Exploration of Divine Transcendence/Immanence as a Stylistic Determinant for Worship Music with Paradigmatic Implications for the Contemporary Christian Context
… The conscious conservation of religious music style in most cultures contrasts with the stylistic pluralism of Western Christian worship music. This study addressed the problem of decision making within the diversity of music available for Christian worship.</p> <p><em>Purpose …
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El pensamiento musical de Antonio Eximeno
… y profesor de retórica, utilizó la teoría musical como un medio para integrarse en las redes culturales de la sociedad italiana, reflejando la influencia del pensamiento europeo ilustrado y actuando como un "mediador cultural" entre Italia y España. En la tesis "El pensamiento musical de …