An Index to Anglo-American Psalmody in Modern Critical Editions


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"During the past several decades, psalmody-the sacred choral music of America and Great Britain during the eighteenth century-has seen a dramatic revival of interest. Over two dozen composers have had their collected works issued in scholarly editions and several important historical anthologies of this music have been published. In all over two thousand individual works are now available in critical editions. The Index to Anglo-American Psalmody in Modern Critical Editions makes this repertory accessible by tune name, composer's name, musical form, text source, first line of text, and topic of the text." --




Church and Worship Music


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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




Church and Worship Music in the United States


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This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works of J.S. Bach to newer areas of inquiry including folk hymnology, women and African-American composers, music as a spiritual healer, to the music of Mormon, Shaker, Moravian, and other smaller sects. With multiple indices, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.




Palestina


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Trained in Russia, Zeitlin (1884–1930) was an accomplished composer, conductor, performer, and pedagogue. In writing Palestina, Zeitlin, as he had done during his entire career, was fulfilling the goals of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, which he joined in 1908 while still a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory: to compose and perform works of art music on motivic material drawn from Jewish cantillation, liturgy, and folk song. In addition to employing two modes central to Jewish music and several Jewish tunes, in Palestina Zeitlin actually imitates the shofar calls heard in the synagogue before and during Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. This edition includes an extensive essay on the composer and on the themes and structure of Palestina, with insights into the Capitol Theatre and the role of music in picture palaces of this era.




Musica Ecclesiae, Part 2


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ix + 215 pp.Publishined in three volumes, A48, A49, and A50




Fortunato


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Book URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a075.html In 1958 American composer Miriam Gideon (1906¿1996) completed her only opera, Fortunato, based on the eponymous ¿tragicomic farce¿ by the Spanish playwrights Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871¿1938 and 1873¿1944, respectively). Although Gideon¿s opera has never received a full performance and has only been available until now in a marginally legible autograph copy of the piano-vocal score, it may be regarded as a central work within Gideon's style and oeuvre and an important American operatic work of the 1950s. In addition to the fully edited piano-vocal score, the edition includes a significant introductory essay that summarizes Gideon's compositional activity during the post¿World War II years, her most active period. The essay also provides a context for Gideon's opera by examining attitudes toward women composers in the American 1950s and by placing the opera's main themes into dialogue with recently discovered personal writings by the composer. A supplement to this edition includes Gideon's full orchestration of Fortunato¿s first scene, recently discovered among the composer¿s personal papers, which she may have intended as a sample piece to be pitched to television networks.




Fortunato


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Musica Ecclesiae, Part 1


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xxi + 211 pp.Published in three parts, vols. A48, A49, A50




Two Overtures


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xv + 222 pp.




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