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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"liturgical music"”.
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North Italian liturgical music in the late sixteenth century
… is a study of published sacred polyphonic vocal music by composers working in the Venetian Republic and adjacent territories, from the late 1560s, when the decrees of the Council of Trent were implemented in regional councils, to the earliest years of the new century, when the economic prosperity …
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A portfolio of compositions developing notational and compositional techniques in neo-liturgical music including handpan
… to develop a system of notation and compose neo-liturgical music featuring the handpan. Until this point, no means of written communication has been in place to express advanced handpan techniques in printed sheet music. My process in researching and creating this portfolio entailed a fourfold …
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Roman Catholic liturgical music in urban Kenya: Processes of inculturation at St. Veronica parish Syokimau, Nairobi
… of liturgy that has undergone inculturation is liturgical music. Among the metropolitan and cosmopolitan congregations in urban areas however, cultural expressions are much more diverse than among the more homogenous congregations in rural areas. This dissertation explores ways in which …
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Cecilian reform in Baltimore, 1868-1903
… 1868-1903"" traces the reform of Roman Catholic liturgical music during one of its most controversial and least researched phases. Focusing on a single American city illustrates how a portion of the ethnically diverse, rapidly growing American Catholic church responded to the importation of a …
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Antonius Scandellus, the Third Kantor of the Lutheran Church at the Saxon Electoral Court Chapel in Dresden: His Liturgical Music With an Emphasis on the Motets
… There he composed for and performed within a liturgical context---Latin rites with vernacular insertions. His responsibilities included oversight of choraliter (unison) singing at daily Matins and Vespers and at the four weekend services---Vespers, Matins, Mass, and Vespers, and figuraliter …
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Modes of Resistance: Memory, Language and Identity in the Performance of Assyrian Liturgy in Iraq and Beyond
… the Assyrian Church of the East liturgy and music have been the guardian of the Assyrian Christian faith, language and culture for more than a millennium. With the Church’s core activities happening in Mesopotamia, its liturgical music provides additional insight into the history of musical …
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Liturgiese Orrelmusiek deur Suid-Afrikaanse Komponiste as Aanvullende Pedagogiese Materiaal in die Elementêre Fase van Orrelonderrig
… with repertoire that is culturally relevant and musically meaningful. Research, as well as empirical observation by practising instrumental teachers, confirms the role of cultural relevance in the learning process and its positive influence on learner engagement and intrinsic motivation. Although …
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Paraliturgicalism in the vespers sequence of Ivan Moody
… 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 concert use. Choirs and small vocal ensembles from amateur to professional have used repertoire from sacred music …
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Liturgical jazz: the lineage of the subgenre in the music of Edgar E. Summerlin
This dissertation discusses the lineage of liturgical jazz with a particular focus on Edgar Eugene “Ed” Summerlin (1928-2006). This lineage stretches back into the late 1950s, but has largely been unexplored beyond a select few high-profile artists. I trace the evolution of liturgical jazz from …
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The Accompaniment of Gregorian Chant
… instrumental accompaniment was not employed for liturgical music, today, particularly in the services of the Roman Catholic Church, the common practice is to use some type of organ accompaniment to the chant sung by the choir or congregation. The present thesis proposes to trace briefly the …
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The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37
… attention, however, has been given to Russian music, specifically liturgical repertoires, where tonal centricity has historically been weaker than in most tonal music. This dissertation investigates tonal disunity in Russian sacred works, with special emphasis on Rachmaninoff's <em>All-Night …
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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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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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Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II
… finest composers produced a body of choral music which, although somewhat smaller than that of other European nations, proves proportionately larger in specifically sacred and liturgical <em>a cappella</em> composition. (Liturgical music uses the texts of the Eucharist and Office [canonical …
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A church musician's resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A
… (CPDL) represents a free resource to the church musician, and yet, as a user-edited database, has its limitations. This monograph provides a measure of quality control of the broad database presenting a usable resource guide for the church musician faced with the selection and presentation of …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… an unusual insight into the world of Jewish music in Victorian Britain. An Anglican musician trained as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and with Royal Organist Sir George Elvey, Verrinder’s forty-five-year career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first ‘Reform’ …