Vexilla Regis

Author : Stephen Town
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606013
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Stephen Town and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831945
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England written by Catherine E. Karkov and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.

Author : Richard Viladesau
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019518811X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of the Cross written by Richard Viladesau and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viladesau focuses on poetry and the visual arts as he seeks to understand 'The Beauty of the Cross' as it developed in theology and art from the early Christian era through the middle ages.

Author : Domenico Pezzini
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039116003
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Translation of Religious Texts in the Middle Ages written by Domenico Pezzini and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from Latin to vernacular languages in the late Middle Ages and the dramatic rise of a new readership produced a huge bulk of translations, particularly of religious literature in its various genres. The solutions are so multifarious that they defy any attempt to outline general theories. This is particularly visible when the same text is translated or rewritten at different times and in different languages or genres. Through a minute analysis of texts this book aims at highlighting lexical, syntactic and stylistic choices dictated not only by the source but also by new readers and patrons, or by new destinations of the works. Established categories such as 'literalness' and 'fidelity' are thus questioned and integrated with these other factors which, while being more 'external', do nonetheless impinge on the very idea of 'translation', and consequently on its assessment. Far from being a mere transfer from one language to another, a medieval translation verges on a form of creative writing, and as such its study becomes a fascinating investigation into the very process of textual production.

Author : John Julian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1796 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Ed written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Julian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1644 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544358376
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry written by T. S. Eliot and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy. While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as a poet and critic living in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally termed “metaphysical”—philosophical and intellectual poetry that revels in startlingly unconventional imagery. Eliot came to perceive a gradual “disintegration of the intellect” following three “metaphysical moments” of European civilization—the thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth centuries. The theory is at once a provocative prism through which to view Western intellectual and literary history and an exceptional insight into Eliot’s own intellectual development. This annotated edition includes the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1933. They reveal in great depth the historical currents of poetry and philosophy that shaped Eliot’s own metaphysical moment in the twentieth century.

Author : John Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008785
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner written by John Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401609
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the variation in plainsong, its living quality, that these essays address.

Author : Clara Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135617619
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina written by Clara Marvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This guide introduces students and scholars to the literature on Palestrina as well as the complicated history of the publication of his works. This bibliography is divided into four primary sections: historical background on musical, social, and cultural life; biographical literature; studies of sources, music, and style; and reception history. They are divided roughly into the periods dating from Palestrina's lifetime to about 1750; from about 1750 to about 1914; from 1914 to the present. This title also contains historical research on performance conditions and practices as they would have applied in Palestrina's time.