Carol Lines to Hymn
Carol Lines to Hymn

Author: John L. Hoh

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0615185436

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christmas is a special time of the year. The carols especially bring people together. Every professional singer releases a Christmas album and stand-bys are featured in most albums. This book looks at carols old and new and meditates on the words of each carol. The emphasis is on the baby in Bethlehem's manger, the baby who came to redeem us from our sin. It also includes the four songs of Christmas--Mary's Song, Zechariah's Song, the Song of the Angels, and the Song of Simeon. These carols and meditations are part of the "To Hymn" series.

Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine
Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine

Author: Marika C. Kuzma

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1036405141

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ukraine’s abundant heritage of singing includes thousands of carols. This anthology introduces an ancient culture that is nevertheless new to world audiences. In this book, the carols become a prism through which all of Ukraine’s history, culture, and vibrant spirit are brought to light. It includes the internationally celebrated “Carol of the Bells”—in its original version as a winter song of gratitude and resilience, and it covers sacred and secular pieces for the Christmas to New Year’s season: from early chant to elaborate new choral fantasies. Transliterations and translations make the carols accessible to a broad audience. Along with music scores, it shares the stories behind each carol: historical context, biographies of composers, explanations of winter rituals. Written during Russia’s war on Ukraine, the book is also journalistic. These carols often carry gripping narratives of a unique choral activism that has helped Ukraine, its language, and its people to survive.

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama
The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama

Author: Elizabeth Hale Winkler

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780874133585

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)
Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)

Author: John the Blind Audelay

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 158044444X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.

An Annotated Anthology of Hymns
An Annotated Anthology of Hymns

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-06-21

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0191520640

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An Annotated Anthology of Hymns is a selection of 250 of the best-known hymns in the English language, including texts translated from Greek, Latin, German, and other languages. The selection includes hymns from the earliest years of the Christian church to the present day. This is not a book for worship: the hymns are printed in a chronological sequence and not by Christian season or subject, as they would be in a church hymn book. It is an anthology for those who would like to understand more about hymns: each one is given a commentary which sets it in context, identifies significant sources, and provides explanatory and critical material. An introductory essay discusses the hymn as a historical and literary form, and the way in which it appeals to so many people. This is a book which shows how, in the words of the foreword by Timothy Dudley-Smith, 'hymns lift the heart'. It will be treasured by those who already know something about hymns and it will delight all those who enjoy hymns and would like to know more about them.

How Christmas Became Christmas
How Christmas Became Christmas

Author: Nathaniel Parry

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1476647089

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In some respects, the contrasts of Christmas are what make it the most delightful time of the year. It is a time of generosity, kindness and peace on earth, with broad permission to indulge in food, drink and gifts. On the other hand, Christmas has become a battleground for raging culture wars, marred by debates about how it should be celebrated and acknowledged as a uniquely Christian holiday. This text argues that much of the animosity is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the holiday's core character. By tracing Christmas's origins as a pagan celebration of the winter solstice and its development in Europe's Christianization, this history explains that the true "reason for the season" has as much to do with the earth's movement around the sun as with the birth of Christ. Chapters chronicle how Christmas's magic and misrule link to the nativity, and why the carnival side of the holiday appears so separated from traditional Christian beliefs.