Eternal light
Eternal light

Author: Howard Goodall

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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The writing of a requiem is a special challenge for any composer. The great requiems of the past by composers such as Mozart, Verdi and Berlioz interpret the sacred requiem text literally, offering prayers of salvation for the departed, whose souls are assumed to be in purgatory facing a terrible judgment. Eternal Light: A Requiem, by the Emmy Award winning British composer and internationally acclaimed broadcaster Howard Goodall is a stunning new requiem for the modern day. In contrast it is intended to provide solace to the grieving, reflecting on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English. Speaking about the work, Howard Goodall said, "For me, a modern requiem is one that acknowledges the unbearable loss and emptiness that accompanies the death of loved ones, a loss that is not easily ameliorated with platitudes about the joy awaiting us in the afterlife. This, like Brahms', is a requiem for the living, addressing their suffering and endurance, a requiem focusing on the consequences of interrupted lives." Also available in single octavo format, is Lead, Kindly Light (057153323X). Buy digital tracks from iTunes. Complete CD also available from Amazon.com.

Lead, Kindly Light
Lead, Kindly Light

Author: Robert Salkeld

Publisher:

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780571533237

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Composer's note: John Henry Newman's moving and profound sacred poem Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom has cast a spell on me ever since I was a boy chorister in Oxford (UK) in the 1960s, when it was introduced to me attached to William Harris's stirring hymn tune Alberta, composed, apparently, as he was crossing that Canadian province by train in the 1920s. Why is this Victorian text still so powerful? For me, it is a perfect expression of the comfort of a compassionate faith, filled as it is with human fragility and the doubt that we know Newman was grappling with at this stage in his life. Because it has always spoken so directly and personally to me I was determined that it should be a cornerstone of my Eternal Light: A Requiem both as a stand-alone movement but also as the thematic climax of the Requiem's concluding movement, In Paradisum. Whilst I admire the familiar, existing tunes associated with the hymn, I wanted my Lead, Kindly Light to evoke the turbulent waters of the sea, serving as a reminder of the fact that its words were written by a man who believed himself to be confronted with the possibility of death, stranded as he was at sea and critically ill, and also of the metaphor of troubled waters, for anyone who has looked despair in the face, sought and found a kindly light to lead them on. The full vocal score of Eternal Light: A Requiem is also available on 0571532306. Buy digital track from iTunes. Complete CD available from Amazon.com.

The Hired Man
The Hired Man

Author: Melvyn Bragg

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1848942540

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Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a novel which has been hailed as a classic of its kind - as meticulously detailed as a social document, as evocative as the writings of Hardy and Lawrence.

Singing the Resurrection
Singing the Resurrection

Author: Erin M. Lambert

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 019066164X

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Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief. Together, resurrection and song reveal how sixteenth-century Christians--from learned theologians to ordinary artisans, and Anabaptist martyrs to Reformed Christians facing exile--defined belief not merely as an assertion or affirmation but as a continuous, living practice. Thus these voices, raised in song, tell a story of the Reformation that reaches far beyond the transformation from one community of faith to many. With case studies drawn from each of the major confessions of the Reformation--Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Catholic--Singing the Resurrection reveals sixteenth-century belief in its full complexity.

The Story of Music
The Story of Music

Author: Howard Goodall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1639361219

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Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A “masterful” tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review). Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialized and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels, and tired terminology. Instead, he leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation—harmony, notation, sung theater, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting—strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionized man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, why some chords sound discordant, and what all post-war pop songs have in common. The story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel—and entertain. Howard Goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking map of our musical journey.

Vocal Warm-ups
Vocal Warm-ups

Author: Klaus Heizmann

Publisher: Schott Music

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 3795716241

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What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are 200 suggestions all at once! And these creative exercises do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. "Klaus Heizmann's collection is a wonderful new resource of ideas and techniques: practical, varied, challenging, relaxing and stimulating. I am always looking for new ideas, as I like to use a different set of warm-ups at every rehearsal with my choirs, and I tend to choose specific exercises to suit the repertoire for the day. This collection gives us 200 excellent "tools-of-the-trade"; they are clearly labeled, intelligently set out, well-designed and extremely useful." (Simon Carrington, Director of Choral Activities, New England Conservatory since 2001; Director of Choral Activities, The University of Kansas 1994-2001; Founder and co-director of the King's Singers 1968-1993)

Light Perpetual
Light Perpetual

Author: Francis Spufford

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1982174153

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A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.