Author : Jane Stuart Smith
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780891078692
Fascinating descriptions of forty leading composers whose faith, or lack of it, had an influence on Western civilization. Indexed. Great for all students of music.
Author : R. D. Theisz
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780971865822
Author : Luke E. Lassiter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816518357
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Author : Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307434109
This compelling collection of stories explores the powerful impact that music has in our lives—especially in the lives of teens. Each story strikes a new note: Ron Koertge introduces us to the boys in the band—the marching band; Joseph Bruchac contributes a Native American boy with no rhythm whatsoever; Jennifer Armstrong writes about what was perhaps the first battle of the bands—during the American Civl War; and David Levithan offers up a love song that speaks powerfully to an unintended audience. But while each story is different, they combine into a harmonic song of praise—for the depths music can reach in us, and the power it has to bind us together.
Author : Donna Cangelosi
Publisher : Page Street Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1645674703
Portraying the life of Fred Rogers, this picture book biography focuses on his most memorable songs and musical television moments that celebrate the enduring magic of his music and encourage children to brighten their own lives with song.
Author : Kathleen Basi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643856901
Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Katherine Center's How to Walk Away in Kathleen Basi's debut novel about an unconventional road trip and what it means to honor the ones we love. It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels. With the help of her best friend, she realizes that it's time to pick up the pieces and begin to move on. Step one is not even cleaning out her family's possessions, but just taking inventory starting with her daughter's room. But when she opens her daughter's computer, she stumbles across a program her daughter has created detailing an automated cross-country road trip, for her and her husband to take as soon-to-be empty nesters. Seeing and hearing the video clips of her kids embedded in the program, Miriam is determined to take this trip for her children. Armed with her husband's guitar, her daughter's cello, and her son's unfinished piano sonata, she embarks on a musical pilgrimage to grieve the family she fears she never loved enough. Along the way she meets a young, pregnant hitchhiker named Dicey, whose boisterous and spunky attitude reminds Miriam of her own daughter. Tornadoes, impromptu concerts, and an unlikely friendship...whether she's prepared for it or not, Miriam's world is coming back to life. But as she struggles to keep her focus on the reason she set out on this journey, she has to confront the possibility that the best way to honor her family may be to accept the truths she never wanted to face. Hopeful, honest, and tender, A Song for the Road is about courage, vulnerability, and forgiveness, even of yourself, when it really matters.
Author : BJ Sam
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 3748728611
Music enlivens the world and brighten our dark and gloomy days. Indeed, without the beautiful melody and harmony of music, the world would be so dim and boring. Music is so vital to our lives and well-being, its effect on our emotions is so tremendous. BJ Sam is an international trailblazing musician who brings music stars and professional vocalists from all the continents of the world together for international projects and collaborations. The very first musician to featured music stars from all the continents of the world in one song. In this book, BJ Sam tries to explain the reason why millions of people across the world who engage in music never make waves and never become stars, even though some sing very beautifully, and why others who write and sing junk are catapulted to limelight. You will discover vital things that every emerging crooner, musician and lover of music ought to know. This book will bring careers of many musicians and singers to full bloom and cause new stars to emerge. If you have been trying to reach the top but you keep falling, then flip through the pages to find out why and what to do.
Author : Bob Kauflin
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2008-03-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781433577413
Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of Godhonoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The auth
Author : David A. Posthuma
Publisher : CLC Ministries
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875089812
Made for a Mission offers a biblically informed, strategic method to help Christians realize their calling in life. It helps the reader develop a personal life mission plan that honors their God-ordained design. (Practical Life)
Author : Arthur Knight
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2002-08-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822384108
From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts, from sorrow songs to show tunes to bebop and beyond. Arthur Knight focuses on American film’s classic sound era, when Hollywood studios made eight all-black-cast musicals—a focus on Afro-America unparalleled in any other genre. It was during this same period that the first black film stars—Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge—emerged, not coincidentally, from the ranks of musical performers. That these films made so much of the connection between African Americans and musicality was somewhat ironic, Knight points out, because they did so in a form (song) and a genre (the musical) celebrating American social integration, community, and the marriage of opposites—even as the films themselves were segregated and played before even more strictly segregated audiences. Disintegrating the Musical covers territory both familiar—Show Boat, Stormy Weather, Porgy and Bess—and obscure—musical films by pioneer black director Oscar Micheaux, Lena Horne’s first film The Duke Is Tops, specialty numbers tucked into better-known features, and lost classics like the short Jammin’ the Blues. It considers the social and cultural contexts from which these films arose and how African American critics and audiences responded to them. Finally, Disintegrating the Musical shows how this history connects with the present practices of contemporary musical films like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Bamboozled.
