The Sacred Choral Music of J.S. Bach

The Sacred Choral Music of J.S. Bach
Author: John Butt
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN:

The sacred choral works of J.S. Bach have long been considered among the greatest masterpieces in music. Choir directors and singers need a comprehensive, yet accessible guide that encourages musicians at all levels of ability in the performance of these works, whether in the church or concert. This handbook presents a wealth of information including chapters on Bach's theology, chorales, and ornamentation, as well as a selected and annoted bibliography. It will be an inspiration to the scholarship and practical advice on the performance of sacred choral music of Bach.

Choral Music

Choral Music
Author: James Michael Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135848203

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

Choral Music

Choral Music
Author: Avery T. Sharp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0415994195

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

A Survey of Choral Music

A Survey of Choral Music
Author: Homer Ulrich
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1973
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In this brief text, Homer Ulrich offers students a history of choral music that is as rich and fascinating as the genre itself. Emphasizing those works that represent historical or stylistic turning points, A SURVEY OF CHORAL MUSIC begins several centuries before the invention of the genre and takes students all the way into the twentieth century. Ulrich's descriptive discussions mix history and analysis with explication of musical structures, text sources and treatments, and kinds of texture. The text offers a useful glossary, bibliography, and list of music sources--as well as appendices that provide several principal types of sacred texts (including Requiem Mass, Te Deum, and Magnificat) for quick reference.

And Sweet Singing in the Choir

And Sweet Singing in the Choir
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2015-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780787712860

Douglas Wagner's rhythmically driven treatment of the beloved carol "The Holly and the Ivy" offers a fantastic opener or closer for your holiday concert. Persistent eighth notes in the piano maintain excitement throughout, and a dynamic choral pyramid ending adds to the festive atmosphere.

Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century
Author: George Corbett
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783747293

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
Author: Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2005-09-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139825755

This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.

Cantata No. 80 -- Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Cantata No. 80 -- Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1999-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457480645

"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," Cantata No. 80, by Johann Sebastian Bach, was composed in Leipzig, Germany for Reformation Day and was first performed between 1727 and 1731. It is based on the famous chorale of Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," or "A Mighty Fortress is Our God." German and English text.

Choral Music in Print

Choral Music in Print
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1976
Genre: Choral music
ISBN:

Includes Sacred choral music and Secular choral music.