Download or read book Western Plainchant written by David Hiley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Download or read book William Byrd and His Contemporaries written by Philip Brett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Download or read book Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform written by Rev. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B. and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Ruff, O.S.B., has written a brilliant, comprehensive, well-researched book about the treasures of the Church's musical tradition, and about the transformations brought about by liturgical reform. The liturgy constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium stated many revolutionary principles of liturgical reform. Regarding liturgical music, the Council's decrees mandated, on the one hand, the preservation of the inherited treasury of sacred music, and on the other hand, advocated adaptation and expansion of this treasury to meet the changed requirements of the reformed liturgy. In clear, precise language, he retrieves the Council's neglected teachings on the preservation of the inherited music treasury. He clearly shows that this task is not at odds with good pastoral practice, but is rather an integral part of it. The book proposes an alternate hermeneutic for understanding the Second Vatican Council's teachings on worship music.

Download or read book Introduction To The Gregorian Melodies second Edition written by Peter Wagner and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Masses and Motets of William Byrd written by Joseph Kerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first of a three-volume study of Byrd's complete output, under the general title The Music of William Byrd, the author essays a first full-scale historical and critical assessment of Byrd's sacred music to Latin words - one of the great glories of the Elizabethan Age. Each of the approximately 175 compositions is considered, at least briefly, with fuller appreciation accorded to such masterpieces as Emendemus in Melius, Tristitia et anxietas, Iusorum animae, Ave verum corpus, the lamentations and the three famous masses. There are more than sixty musical examples, some of considerable length. In critical prose that slights neither technicalities nor the intense emotional qualities of his subject matter, the author sheds fresh and often unexpected illumination on Byrd's musical rhetoric and on his powerful, endlessly inventive musical structures. Re-examining the known facts of Byrd's life in relation to the patronage and politics of the time, the author boldly argues that while the impetus behind Byrd's early motets was primarily traditionalist and technical, that behind his Cantiones sacrae motets of the 1580s was essentially political: they were covert laments and protests on behalf of the embattled recusant community.

Download or read book Gregorian Semiology written by Eugène Cardine and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catholic Choirmaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Musical Shape of the Liturgy written by William Peter Mahrt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor William Mahrt of Santford Univeristy and the Church Music Association of America has written a sweeping book--one that it is at once scholarly and practical--on that most controversial topic of music and the liturgy. He provides an over-whelming argument that every parish must have high standrads for liturgical music and he makes the full case for Gregorian chant as the model and the ideal of that liturgical music." - back cover

Download or read book Psalms Sonnets and Songs written by William Byrd and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Music in the Liturgy written by Ben Whitworth and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Notation of Medieval Music written by Carl Parrish and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mariology Vol 1 written by Juniper Carol and published by Mediatrix Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariology, edited by Fr. Carol, OFM, was the most complete work on the subject in English published prior to the Second Vatican Council. With top theologians contributing scholarly work in every area of the theology of the Blessed Virgin, this work is indispensable for understanding Mary in the Catholic tradition of both East and West. Volume I deals with the history and sources of Mariology. The unique competence of Fr. Carol, first president of the Mariological Society, as well as the extensive theological background of the contributors guarantee the order and soundness of the selected essays ... This volume can be a good refresher-course for the priest-theologian and a newly opened mine of information for the layman. The introductory volume offers treatises on: Mary in the documents of the Magisterium; Mary in the Old Testament; Mary in the New Testament; Mary in Eastern and Western Patristic Thought; Mary in the Liturgy; and many more subjects, heavily footnoted and wonderfully presented.

Download or read book The Solesmes Method written by Joseph Gajard and published by Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the "Solesmes Method" in two parts. The first part sets forth the principles that constitute the method. The second part presents the actual rules for singing.

Download or read book Chant Made Simple written by Robert M. Fowells and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purity and simplicity of Gregorian chant is what fed the musical and liturgical life of Christianity for more than a millennium before there were any Protestants. But after the reforms of the Vatican II concils in the 1960s, chant went into disuse. Gregorian chant is back, and more popular than it has been in the last forty years. This handy book is for musicians of all denominations and levels of ability to sing chant, and to understand it more than ever before. New for the second edition of this classic work are: an entirely new interior design that is easier to navigate and read, many additional chants, and historical and spiritual introductions to each of them.

Download or read book New Oxford History of Music The early Middle Ages to 1300 written by Richard L. Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely revised edition of the second volume of the New Oxford History of Music. In the last three decades there has been intense interest in the music of the Middle Ages and great advances in research have been made in facts as well as interpretation. Drawing on the work of leading British and American scholars, this volume presents an informed, up-to-date picture of a broadspectrum of music from the fourth century AD to 1300. Beginning with Christian chant in the Mediterranean, it continues through Latin (`Gregorian') chant, liturgical drama, medieval song, instrumental music, and early polyphony down to the monumental organa composed at the cathedral of Notre Dame inParis in the twelfth century. Over 200 musical examples help to illustrate the discussion of 1,000 years of rich and complex musical development. Contributors: John Stevens, Milos Velimirovic, Kenneth Levy, Richard Crocker, Susan Rankin, Christopher Page, Sarah Fuller, and Janet Knapp.

Download or read book Homilies on Genesis written by Saint John Chrysostom and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Homilies 1-17.- v. 2. Homilies 18-45.

Download or read book Glory of the Confessors written by Gregorius and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation into English of one of Gregory's eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives of confessors.