Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

Author: Patrick Kavanaugh

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0310208068

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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

English Pastoral Music
English Pastoral Music

Author: Eric Saylor

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0252099656

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Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed established musical and aesthetic conventions that reflected the experiences of British composers and audiences during the early twentieth century. By approaching pastoral music as a cultural phenomenon dependent on time and place, Saylor forcefully challenges the body of critical opinion that has long dismissed it as antiquated, insular, and reactionary.

The English Hymnal
The English Hymnal

Author: Oxford

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780192311122

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Includes hymnody from medieval plain chant to the early twentieth-century classics. This work includes hymns that are grouped according to theme and contains material suitable for any festival or occasion in the life of a church.

Early English Composers and the Credo
Early English Composers and the Credo

Author: Wendy J Porter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1000564061

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This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd. Focusing on these composers’ settings of the Latin Credo, the author shows how musical and linguistic emphasis can be used to understand the composers’ theological interpretations of the text. By combining markedness theory with style analysis, this study demonstrates that the composers used their musical skills to not only create beautiful music but also raise certain elements of the text to the foreground of perception and relegate others to supporting roles, inviting listeners to experience the familiar words of the liturgy in unique ways. Providing new insights into the changing musical and religious world of the sixteenth century, this book is relevant to anyone researching music or religion in early modern England, while offering a flexible and widely adaptable tool for the analysis of musical-textual relationships.

Harvard Dictionary of Music
Harvard Dictionary of Music

Author: Willi Apel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 9780674375017

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Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.