Elemental


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: ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love is the product of two individuals¿ combined creative and spiritual visions. It features some 64 paintings by celebrated artist Luther E. Vann with more than approximately 50 accompanying poems and two essays by award-winning author Aberjhani. The art, spanning the early 1970s to 2007, expresses Vann¿s perception of spiritual principles active in the personal and pubic lives of people in New York and Savannah. Introductory essays comment on Vann¿s life and his art. The poems complement the art with themes that explore issues like war, homelessness, the nature of love, and expanded spiritual consciousness.




Countdown to Christmas


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'Countdown to Christmas' is packed with 25 festive carols, songs and original solos for Piano. Covering a variety of styles with attractive and interesting arrangements, each has been arranged to work as a piano solo but lyrics are also included so you can sing along or play for family and friends. Arranged for Elementary to early Intermediate level (UK Grades 1-3), this book is sure to appeal to players of all ages. An added bonus are the 25 fun backing tracks accessed via QR codes, so you can enjoy playing along in your own band while developing important musical skills. There is also an additional set of tracks at a slower tempo. Contents: Angels From The Realms Auld Lang Syne Away in a Manger Christmas Waltz (original solo) Deck the Halls The First Noel Go, Tell It on the Mountain God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Hark! the Herald Angels Sing I Saw Three Ships In the Bleak Midwinter Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas . Joy to the World Mary's Lullaby (original solo) O Christmas Tree O Come, All Ye Faithful O Holy Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Once in Royal David's City One More Sleep (original solo) Silent Night Snowfall (original solo) We Three Kings We Wish You a Merry Christmas With most pieces having a key signature of no more than one sharp or flat, pianists young and old including those who feel a little rusty will enjoy learning many of these pieces in the lead up to Christmas! Darren Day lives in Belfast, NI and alongside his busy teaching career, Darren writes engaging and motivational music for all levels. He is also an Examiner for Trinity College London.




Christmas Music Companion Fact Book


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(Reference). This fascinating book deserves a place of honor in every Christmas music collection! For 50 beloved traditional tunes, readers will learn the story of how the song came to be, the author and the historical setting, then be able to play a great arrangement of the song! Also includes: an essay on The Origin of Christmas Hymns and Carols; a Christmas music timeline and overview; Christmas music trivia questions & answers; the histories of six contemporary carols; an index of authors, arrangers, composers and translators; and much more! Songs examined include: Away in a Manger * Deck the Halls * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Christmas Tree * O Holy Night * Silver Bells * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * What Child Is This? * and more!




The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities


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The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.







Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry


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More than a book of popular quotes, this volume is a powerful reference tool for some of the most frequently-cited poems, news articles, fiction, memoir, history, and creative nonfiction on the web. It also provides the largest single selection of quotes by the author, many available only in these pages, including the entire special section titled TAO OF THE RAINBOW. In addition, the book as a whole demonstrates the ability of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Google+ to help make positive and inspiring differences in 21st-century life. "Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment." --Aberjhani, from Journey through the Power of the Rainbow




The World's Great Men of Music


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This is a biographical account of the lives of 25 of the world's best known classical composers. The book was written in 1922 so does not include modern composers. It's original intended readership was young music students, but the author herself acknowledges that it could appeal to a wider audience.




Etude Music Magazine


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Includes music.




Normal Instructor


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