The Islands of Divine Music
The Islands of Divine Music

Author: John Addiego

Publisher: Unbridled Books

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1936071258

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The Islands of Divine Music is a novel of five generations of an Italian-American family finding its place in the New World. Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, five generations of the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco as each character brushes up against some aspect of the divine. The family matriarch is Rosari, a little girl whose family flees Italy because her prodigality is exploited by illiterate kidnappers. After her beautiful, psychotic mother’s suicide, the girl and her despondent father come to San Francisco, where she meets the man she’ll marry, a handsome, fiercely strong peasant named Giuseppe Verbicaro. The twelve linked stories of The Islands of Divine Music are portraits of family members whose lives are interwoven in one narrative that spans 100 years. Rosari and Giuseppe’s oldest son, Narciso, a handsome and dim-witted dandy, barely evades death and the stain of organized crime by his simple-minded innocence and luck, while his passionate brother Ludovico, a talented third baseman in the old San Francisco minor leagues, falls prey to the illicit dreams of a wise guy from the Gambino family. His scheme to smuggle Cuban cigars to the San Francisco Bay nearly ends in drowning but leads to a kind of salvation. Their youngest brother, Joe, a brilliant child and shrewd businessman, is ashamed of his ethnicity and, in particular, his father. This is due in part to the fact that Giuseppe, wandering North Beach, believes that God directs him to marry a teen-aged, pregnant Mexican prostitute named Maria. Further senility, faith, or vermouth convinces the old man that Maria’s child, Jesus, is the product of an immaculate conception. The event is both a family disgrace and a bizarre blessing. The child’s life and tragic death come to have a profound effect on Giuseppe’s progeny, particularly Joe’s children: Penelope, who flees the country following involvement in deadly anti-Vietnam War activities, and her brothers Paulie and Angelo, who are inspired by the young Jesus to embark upon a quest of several thousand miles to recover the family’s lost and most prized spiritual treasures.

Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century
Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

Author: George Corbett

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1783747293

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Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relationship between the sacred and the composition, performance, and appreciation of music. Through the theme of ‘annunciations’, this volume interrogates how, when, why, through and to whom God communicates in the Old and New Testaments. In doing so, it tackles the intimate relationship between Scriptural reflection and musical practice in the past, its present condition, and what the future might hold. Annunciations comprises three parts. Part I sets out flexible theological and compositional frameworks for a constructive relationship between the sacred and music. Part II presents the reflections of theologians and composers involved in collaborating on new pieces of sacred choral music, alongside the six new scores and links to the recordings. Part III considers the reality of programming and performing sacred works today. This volume provides an indispensable resource for scholars and artists working at the interface between theology and the arts, and for those involved in sacred music. However, it will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the ways in which the Divine communicates through word and artistry to humanity.

Divine Music
Divine Music

Author: Suruchi Mohan

Publisher: Orient Paperbacks

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9788122204728

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In her richly textured debut novel, Suruchi Mohan weaves a captivating coming-of-age tale against the backdrop of intricate world of North Indian classical music. We are swept along by the story of musically gifted Sarika, and her revered guru who recognises in her a talent greater than his own; but is her beautiful voice enough to protect her from being a woman in a rapidly changing yet unforgiving society? Rich in details of Indian traditions and music, the author narrates a powerful story of growing dissatisfaction of ordinary people, their yearnings and hopes, their aspirations and accomplishments, their predicaments, joys and sorrows. The characters come alive and pull you into their middle class values and lives with finely depicted scenes.

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Author: Carolyn Laferrière

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1009315943

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This book examines representations of divine music to argue that visual arts could communicate the sound of divine music being depicted.

Sing to the Lord
Sing to the Lord

Author: USCCB Publishing

Publisher: USCCB

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781601370228

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Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship provides basic guidelines for understanding the role and ministry of music in the liturgy. An excellent resource for priests, deacons, and music ministers!

Decomposed
Decomposed

Author: Kyle Devine

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0262537788

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The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disposed of. Devine's story focuses on three forms of materiality. Before 1950, 78 rpm records were made of shellac, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000, formats such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today, recordings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harvest and process these materials, from women and children in the Global South to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us that vinyl records are oil products, and that the so-called vinyl revival is part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices required to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as finished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a range of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to what music is, how it works, and why it matters.

Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750
Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750

Author: Tom Dixon

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 178327767X

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During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in the early modern subject's sensory experience of divinity? While the English intellectuals Peter Sterry (1613-72), Richard Roach (1662-1730), William Stukeley (1687-1765) and David Hartley (1705-57), have not been remembered for their 'musicking', this book explores how the musical reflections of these individuals expressed alternative and often uncustomary conceptions of God, the world, and the human psyche. Music is always potentially present in their discourse, emerging as a crucial form of mediation between states: exoteric and esoteric, material and spiritual, outer and inner, public and private, rational and mystical. Dixon shows how Sterry, Roach, Stukeley and Hartley's shared belief in truly universal salvation was articulated through a language of music, implying a feminising influence that set these male individuals apart from contemporaries who often strictly emphasised the rational-i.e. the supposedly masculine-aspects of religion. Musical discourse, instead, provided a link to a spiritual plane that brought these intellectuals closer to 'ultimate reality'. Theirs was a discourse firmly rooted in the real existence of contemporary musical practices, both in terms of the forms and styles implied in the writings under discussion and the physical circumstances in which these musical genres were created and performed. Through exploring ways in which the idea of music was employed in written transmission of elite ideas, this book challenges conventional classifications of a seventeenth-century 'Scientific Revolution' and an eighteenth-century 'Enlightenment', defending an alternative narrative of continuity and change across a number of scholarly disciplines, from seventeenth-century English intellectual history and theology, to musicology and the social history of music.

Divine Soul Songs
Divine Soul Songs

Author: Zhi Gang Sha

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-06-09

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1439169721

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Divine Soul Songs carry divine frequency and vibration, with divine love, forgiveness, compassion, and light. Millions are searching for soul secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and practices to fulfill their spiritual journeys. They want to know the purpose of life. They want their spiritual journeys to be deeply blessed. They also want to transform their physical lives. They want health. They want happiness. They want to prolong life. They want good relationships. They want financial abundance. The Divine Soul Songs offered in this book can transform every aspect of your life. They are treasures to be used for healing, rejuvenation, and purification of your soul, heart, mind, and body, and the souls, hearts, minds, and bodies of others. Every book in the Soul Power Series offers new teachings to empower readers to do soul selfhealing and more, but this book has more practical exercises than any other. Here Dr. Sha gives you the experience of a live Divine Soul Songs workshop with him. He presents these treasures in such a simple and practical way that you'll soon experience profound results. Enjoy them. Practice them. Benefit from them. Use these divine treasures to serve yourself, your loved ones, and others.

Rediscovering Your Divine Music
Rediscovering Your Divine Music

Author: Scott C. Leuthold

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02-11

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780983289678

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What if there was an underlying universal language that encompassed everything in your reality but you simply were not aware? What if you had been led away from this truth as a child? Would you want to know? What if you could find a way to rediscover your connection to it and in doing so could change your whole perspective on life and your powerful place within it? Through significant philosophical conversations with spiritual leaders, scientists, researchers, and philosophers from around the globe coupled with his own life experiences, Author, Scott Leuthold gained new perspectives on his reality. In his new book Rediscovering Your Divine Music, he shares a timely message that we must reconnect with our natural world and learn to love and respect ourselves, everyone, and everything under the premise that all is one.

The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra
The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra

Author: D. J. Irani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0415614481

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Zarathusthtra brought about important religious reform in Iran, giving a definitely moral character and direction to religion whilst at the same time preaching the doctrine of monotheism, which offered an eternal foundation of reality to goodness as an ideal of perfection. This volume provides a substantial introduction on the life and doctrines of Zarathushtra and compares the development of religion in India with that of Iran.