Heaven's Symphony

Heaven's Symphony

Author: Steve Swanson

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 0768405408

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Worship is more than music…it is your invitation to a divine encounter! When you worship, more is going on than meets the eye. You take your place among a heavenly symphony that has been offering up praise since the dawn of time. Discover how you were uniquely created for supernatural experiences in God’s presence—no matter who you are or what you have been designed to do! In fact, how you were made often reveals how God desires to encounter you. The artist sees God in colors, shapes, visual contrasts, and dimensions. The mathematician perceives Heaven’s activity in the precision and fluidity of measurements, movements, forces, proportions, and vectors. The writer senses divine Presence in the poetry of perfectly selected words. God has created you for an intimate encounter. Your distinct personality, talent, and destiny allows you to sense the different colors of His activity in your life and in the world. Receive a fresh vision of your destiny, start seeing the supernatural activity of Heaven released through worship, and experience God in ways you never dreamed possible!


Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition

Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-01-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1442232641

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In the two centuries after Martin Luther’s affirmation that music stood second only to theology, Lutheran theologians and musicians formulated a theological defense of music that validated this exalted status. Against Calvinist rivals and Pietist critics, the orthodox Lutheran position further claimed that both instrumental and vocal music were commanded by God. Joyce Irwin’s earlier work, Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque, traced this development in Lutheran theological thought. In this current work, Foretastes of Heavenly Music: Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity, Irwin provides translations and commentary for two eighteenth-century texts that illuminate the musico-theological foundation underlying the work of Lutheran composers such as Bach and Telemann. A Truth Lover’s Clear Reasonings on Which the Correct Use of Music Rests (1717) by Christoph Raupach, with an introduction by Johann Mattheson, serves as a cumulative statement of Lutheran advocacy of music. Mattheson’s Affirmation of Heavenly Music (1747) goes a step further in defending the reality of music in heaven and even the ultimate superiority of music over theology and sermons. Irwin’s introduction traces the centrality of Mattheson’s belief in heavenly music throughout the course of his life, even while he was writing works of music theory that earned him a reputation as an Enlightenment thinker. Though influenced by Enlightenment philosophy, specifically British empiricism, he rejected the rationalist philosophies of his German contemporaries and expressed no sympathy for the emerging school of biblical criticism. This work is ideal for music historians, Bach scholars, theologians, and researchers in the field of sacred music.


Rautavaara's Journey in Music

Rautavaara's Journey in Music

Author: Barbara Blanchard Hong

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1538172348

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Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016) has been called Finland’s most notable musical export after Sibelius. His prolific output includes eleven operas; eight symphonies; eleven concertos; choral works for the Orthodox, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches; secular choral works; chamber music; vocal solos; and keyboard works. Many of these works were commissioned by internationally known performers and ensembles including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Richard Stoltzman, Hilary Hahn, Anne Akiko Meiers, Gerald Finley, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Juilliard School of Music Orchestra. Perhaps most frequently performed are his Cantus Arcticus, a concerto for recorded arctic birds and orchestra, Angel of Light, his seventh symphony, and the Lorca choral suite depicting Death as a stalker in a Spanish village. Rautavaara’s Journey in Music is divided into two sections; the first a biography and discussion of works that show his various style changes, from neoclassical, to twelve-tone, to neoromantic, and finally to a personal expressive style combining elements of twelve-tone and tonality. The second part divides his works by genre and gives more detailed information of stylistic analysis, libretto, provenance, and, often, reception.


Harmonies of Heaven and Earth

Harmonies of Heaven and Earth

Author: Joscelyn Godwin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1987-11-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1620550954

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Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.