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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Sacred Music"”.
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Sacred Music in Public Schools: A Historical Consideration of Policy and Practice
… 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 significance. (3) Religious music …
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The Sacred Music of Antonio Lotti: Idiom and Influence of a Venetian Master
… to produce a complete catalogue of his extant sacred music. It also collates the known biographical details of Lotti (including proof of his birth in Venice) and those of his wife, Santa Stella. It defines the extent to which Lotti’s compositions can be dated and the extent to which …
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A survey of a cappella sacred music for mixed choir of Josef Rheinberger
… a devout Catholic, Rheinberger composed numerous sacred music pieces for different voices, categories, instrumental accompaniments, and functions. He is classified as a “classical romanticist” and composed his music in a contemporary Romantic music idiom with Classical elements. It is a pity that …
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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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Aspects of style, form and harmony in the sacred music of Heinrich Schutz, with specific reference to his Psalms of David and Geistliche Chormusik
In this dissertation, the sacred music of Schutz is discussed within the context of his contribution as a church composer during the period when music was experiencing the gradual transition from the renaissance to the baroque. Schutz assimilated the principles of composition which characterised …
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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 of the …
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A History of the School of Church Music of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1944-1959
… to construct a history of the School of Church Music of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from its beginnings through the 1958-1959 school year. Chapter 2 examined the events antecedent to the enrollment of the first class of students in September of 1944. Chapter 3 examined the initial …
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Composing Music for Worship
Composing music for worship in the twenty-first century is intriguing in that there are so many traditions, styles, genres and forms to draw on for inspiration. Even modern idioms (such as Contemporary Christian Music) have a history and tradition that one may study and emulate. As the culmination …
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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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Paraliturgicalism in the vespers sequence of Ivan Moody
… a stream of continuity with the school of sacred minimalist composers like Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, and Henryck Gorecki. His vocal compositions often exhibit “paraliturgicalism” –a term he uses and in part created to describe repertoire with roots in music of liturgical rites repurposed for …
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ASPECTS OF AMERICAN MUSICAL LIFE AS REFLECTED IN THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW AND CHURCH MUSIC REVIEW, 1901-1935
… time of growth and important change in American musical life. However, many aspects of our national musical culture during this period remain largely unexplored. Among these is The New Music Review and Church Music Review (NMR) which from 1901 to 1935 offered a detailed chronicle of American …
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Seven Anthems for Men's Voices by Matthew Locke: Transcriptions and Commentary
… context, there are separate chapters on Locke's sacred music and the fourteen anthems for men's voices. These are designed to help the reader see the evolution of Locke's style (these are his earliest known works). The anthems form a bridge between the pre-Commonwealth and Restoration …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… take into account a wide range of textual and musical developments. The analysis of the work proceeds along two complimentary axes: a discussion of the historical antecedents of the text, and a thorough examination of how Schnittke synthesized the musical elements associated with historical …
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“I wyl poure out the wordes of sorrowe”: politics in the Protestant and Catholic settings of Psalms 51 and 79 during the English Reformation
The music of the Tudor era in England reflected the period’s political instability. This instability had its roots in, among other things, the religious movement known as the Reformation. Protestant and Catholic factions relied upon biblical texts, sermons, tracts and other circulating works to …
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Cantemos a coro: An anthology of choral music from Latin America
This project presents an anthology of choral music, with examples from periods from the colonial time to the present. It includes notes about each composer's life and the historical context in which the works were created, and explains some of the most striking features of the music. The anthology …
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Continental Organists and Catholic Church Music in Ireland, 1860-1960
… century, the Irish catholic church recruited musicians from the continent to fill positions of organist and choirmaster in the country’s cathedrals and churches. Although Ireland had a rich monastic liturgical tradition in the middle ages, a series of conflicts, invasions and persecutions …
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Aria Forms and Chorus Textures in Bach's Early Cantatas: The Influences of Neumeister, Telemann, and Rosenmueller
… are also found in older Italian Latin-texted sacred compositions. This dissertation outlines the chain of adaptations which is likely to have transmitted these features from Italian sacred music to the Lutheran cantata, as defined by Erdmann Neumeister. It demonstrates that Bach adopted these …
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The short-form choral works of Florence B. Price: compelling music for a range of choirs
… of Florence B. Price (1887-1953) as compelling music for study and performance by high school choirs, collegiate choirs, and community choirs with intermediate and advanced ability levels. The presentation and supporting document organized the music on a spectrum of difficulty, primarily …
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