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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"spirituals"”.
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"Music Down in My Soul:" Achieving a Sound Ideal for Moses Hogan Spirituals
… various opinions abound on how Moses Hogan’s spirituals should be performed, the purpose of this study was to describe and define the sound ideal for Moses Hogan spirituals. Qualitative methods were used for the collection and analysis of data relevant to this study. Approximately 90 hours …
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Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music
… and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music"" traces the unique---and ironic---survival and transformation of a literary political tradition initiated by the male members of an early nineteenth-century urban Black bourgeoisie into a politicized form of oral expression …
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The African Christian History of American Songs of Slavery
… of American songs of slavery, also known as spirituals. These songs were created by the enslaved Africans in America to express their longing for freedom and preserve African Christian tradition. Within the lyrics of spirituals are coded messages that provided secret information to the …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
<p>This study examines how Booker T. Washington used music to project a New Negro image to the American public while also instilling the qualities of this New Negro into his students. Washington hoped to uplift the African American race by challenging racial caricatures prominent in American …
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An Analysis of the Message of the Negro Spriituals Withing the Conext of Jurgen Moltmann's Theology of Hope
… analyzes the message contained in selected Negro Spirituals (songs composed by enslaved Africans during the antebellum period of American history) within the context of Jurgen Moltmann’s concept of the theology of hope. Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of …
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Life Satisfaction Typologies among Roman Catholic Secular Clergy: A Q Methodological Investigation
… three predominant category prototypes – <em>pro-spirituals</em>, <em>professionals</em>, <em></em>and <em>pro-relationals</em>– representing three different views regarding the life satisfaction of clergy. The findings led to the creation of an explanatory model recognizing a multi-factorial …
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Graduate Recital, Soprano
… written in the baroque period to traditional spirituals arranged by Mark Hayes a twentieth century gospel composer. The spiritual Gospel of Grace is medley of Amazing Grace and I'm New Born Again. Steal Away to Heaven is also a medley of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, Sometimes I feel …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… and Eric Thiman. Arrangers of African-American spirituals are represented by two composers whose reputations rest primarily on their settings of African-American or Negro spirituals: Harry T. Burleigh and John Carter.
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Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty
… training, his suppression of the Franciscan Spirituals and the role of the Spiritual crisis in shaping his view of Franciscan poverty. I also compare the pope's treatment of the Spirituals to his reform of the order of Grandmont. The Spiritual crisis can be interpreted as having focused the …
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The River Still Runs Deep: A Conductor's Guide to Selected Negro Spiritual Arrangements for SATB Choir by Harry T. Burleigh
… is to provide a conductor's analysis of Negro spirituals arranged by H. T. Burleigh for satb choir. The selected works were limited to H. T. Burleigh's works that are extant. In-depth analysis was limited to works in print and available for purchase still today. The author seeks to facilitate …
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SOUNDS POWERFUL West African Islamic Considerations in African American Song
… the discussions of the third chapter in which spirituals are discussed as songs that are about life and death. The last chapter explores how seeking knowledge is an essential part of the Islamic faith, and how education was sought after by slaves, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, in their quest …
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Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944
… practice, including fervent singing of spirituals and gospel hymnody. Black and White Adventist pioneers augmented this milieu with their developing views on the great controversy between Christ and Satan, conditional immortality of the soul, Jesus Christ’s ministry in the heavenly …
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John Daniels Carter: a biographical and musical profile with original piano transcription of Requiem Seditiosam: In Memoriam Medgar Evers
… of another composer who has arranged several spirituals, and a jazz clarinetist, both named John Carter. In-depth field research, over a three-year period, was conducted to discover more information about Carter. Through newspaper articles, archival material from the Kennedy Center/Rockefeller …
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Expressions of African American identity in the cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” by Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes
… events, and by integrating African-American spirituals into the music. Simon Bore the Cross was thought to be lost until a complete piano-vocal score was acquired by Georgetown University in 2014. Hughes' drafts of his libretto for this work are at Yale University. Both institutions also …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… both print and oral traditions for the white spirituals used in this work. Chapter 6 examines The Bell Witch (1947), a secular cantata based on a southern legend of the supernatural. Chapter 7 examines Cumberland Interlude: 1790 (1947), a cantata centered on the character of Andrew Jackson. …
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Songs of the soul: an exploration of music by African American composers
… they are typically limited to arrangements of spirituals. While these pieces certainly deserve a place in song recitals, this limited programming leaves audiences unaware of the rich history of contributions made to the genre of art song by African American composers. Hopefully, by programming …
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Performing American Identity in Great Britain, 1880-1914.
… as a ‘national pastime’ and the appraisal of Spirituals (as performed by African American vocal group the Fisk Jubilee Singers) as the ‘sole American music’. The status that these entertainments enjoyed as uniquely American emerged through their exhibition and reception in Britain. The same …