Download or read book Angelic Music written by Corey Mead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A jewel of musical history-- the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica-- including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others); Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline and recent comeback"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Angelic Music written by Corey Mead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A jewel of musical history-- the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica-- including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others); Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline and recent comeback"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Angelic Music written by Corey Mead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating, insightful, and, best of all, great fun…with spirited charm, Mead weaves history, music, science, and medicine into the story” (The Washington Post) of Ben Franklin’s favorite invention: the glass armonica. Benjamin Franklin is renowned for his landmark inventions, including bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the lightning rod. Yet his own favorite invention—the one he said gave him the “greatest personal satisfaction”—is unknown to the general public. The glass armonica, the first musical instrument invented by an American, was constructed of stacked glass bowls and played by rubbing one’s fingers on the rims. It was so popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Strauss composed for it; Marie Antoinette and numerous monarchs played it; Goethe and Thomas Jefferson praised it; Dr. Franz Mesmer used it for his Mesmerism sessions. Franklin played it for Washington and Jefferson. In Angelic Music, Corey Mead describes how Franklin’s instrument fell out of popular favor, partly due to claims that its haunting sounds could drive musicians out of their minds. Audiences were also susceptible; a child died during a performance in Germany. Some thought its ethereal tones summoned spirits or had magical powers. It was banned in some places. “Charming and fascinating…part musicology and part cultural history…Mead’s lively storytelling opens a window into a (as it were) mesmerizing chapter of music history” (Publishers Weekly). The armonica has in recent years enjoyed a revival. Composers are again writing pieces for it in genres ranging from chamber music and opera to electronic and popular music. Mead brings this instrument back to the public eye in Angelic Music, “a highly readable and informative…from a genial historical guide” (Kirkus Reviews).
Download or read book Angel Magic written by Cassandra Eason and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the frantic modern world many people want to discover easy ways to improve the harmony of their lives, reduce stress and resolve problems. ANGEL MAGIC is a delightful, user-friendly guide to angels for busy people, providing inspiration and guidance in an easily-accessible format. Based in ancient tradition, the power of angels can be used to benefit you in many different ways. Cassandra reveals: * Angels to guide and inspire in every aspect of your life including love, prosperity and career * Advice on how to contact specific angels for specific situations * Ways to work with angels for healing, protection and wellbeing * A list of 250 named angels, with explanations on how they relate to the modern world and the individual's needs This delightful, user-friendly guide to angels also makes a perfect gift.
Download or read book Angel Song Medieval English Music in History written by Lisa Colton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musicians today who have not listened to the thirteenth-century song ‘Sumer is icumen in’, or read of the achievements and fame of fifteenth-century composer John Dunstaple. Similarly, the identification of a distinctively English musical style (sometimes understood as the contenance angloise) has been made on numerous occasions by writers exploring the extent to which English ideas influenced polyphonic composition abroad. Angel song: Medieval English music in history examines the ways in which the standard narratives of English musical history have been crafted, from the Middle Ages to the present. Colton challenges the way in which the concept of a canon of English music has been built around a handful of pieces, composers and practices, each of which offers opportunities for a reappraisal of English musical and devotional cultures between 1250 and 1460.
Download or read book True Angel Stories written by Diana Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiration book of 777 true angel stories explores how angels can transform lives through exercises and visualisations that readers can practice on their own. Stories discuss guardian angels, feathers, signs, rainbows, prayers, numbers and names, unicorns, orbs and much, much more, making this the ultimate angel compendium.
Download or read book When Angels Sing written by Michael Mahin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor and a Robert F. Sibert Honor! Celebrate music icon Carlos Santana in this vibrant, rhythmic picture book from the author of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters. Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el violín. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing—a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music. Carlos tried el clarinete and el violín, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and the energy of Rock and Roll, and added the slow heat of Afro-Cuban drums and the cilantro-scented sway of the music he’d grown up with in Mexico. There were a lot of bands in San Francisco but none of them sounded like this. Had Carlos finally found the music that would make his angels real?
Download or read book The Tradition of Angelic Singing in English Drama written by John Robert Moore and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unlikely Angel written by Lydia R. Hamessley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music. Lydia R. Hamessley's expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar's songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women's lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love. Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton's career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image.
Download or read book The Necessary Angel written by Massimo Cacciari and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-11-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angelic Airs Subversive Songs written by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume positions music as a charged site of cultural struggle, promoted concurrently as a transcendent corrective to social ills and as a subversive cause of those ills. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre examines Victorian constructions of music to advance patriotism, Christianity, culture and domestic harmony, and suggests that often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or immoral sensuality in the spectacle of live music-making.
Download or read book Angel Light s Connecting with our Higher Selves Course written by Natasha Chamberlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course will teach you how To do psychic healing, as well as how to raise your vibration to a higher level. It will also teach you how to connect with your higher self. You will learn how to heal yourself from all your life times. You will learn how to work and heal with light. You will discover how to do distance healing. You will also will also look at healing crystals, learn how to use them. You will discover valuable information on how to keep safe while performing any type of healing work. This book will also teach you how to be your higher self. You will discover what a higher self is. You will learn to connect with others higher selves and also how to work with energy and light.This fantastic book will teach you how to raise your vibration and how to connect with energy and the inner spirits of all living things. This course will help you to discover your higher self. This is a psychic development workbook. This book has everything you need to help you progress on your spiritual journal.
Download or read book Angels for Beginners written by Richard Webster and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to connect to divine guides and guardians, from archangels to specialist angels of healing and abundance. World-renowned author Richard Webster shows you how angels have helped people throughout history and provides simple ways you can apply those lessons to your own life. You don't have to follow any particular spiritual path to communicate with and understand angels. They work for people of different faiths and backgrounds all around the world, and sometimes they come to you in unexpected ways. Learn how to identify the signs and symbols they send, explore ways to work with the angelic realms, and enjoy fascinating and heartwarming stories of angelic visitations. With this book's help, you'll receive many amazing messages and lead a sacred life.
Download or read book Angel Inspiration written by Diana Cooper and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role that angels play in people's lives is explored in-depth in this insightful and informative book. Inspirational stories tell of miraculous ways that angels have healed and helped individuals on earth, encouraging readers to look to their own guardian angels for guidance in life. The hierarchy of angels is also clarified, giving detailed ...
Download or read book Dwight s Journal of Music written by John Sullivan Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Angel Saved Me written by Theresa Cheung and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Timesbestselling angel author Theresa Cheung is back with a new collection of extraordinary stories revealing how our guardian angels intervene in our lives, bringing us a lifeline of hope, healing and spiritual transformation. The honest and astonishing accounts in An Angel Saved Meare proof that, even in our darkest hour of need, we are never alone. These remarkable stories of miraculous intervention remind us that there is so much more to this life than we can ever know. Even in a troubled world, angels can bring us protection, guidance and a sense of hope, comfort and purpose when we need them the most.
Download or read book Angel Signs A Pocket Reference Book written by Debbie Brewer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book provides a quick and simple reference guide, listing and detailing all the ways that the heavenly angels may choose to communicate with you. Use this guide to know and recognise when you have received an angelic sign showing you the presence of a divine angel near you, helping, supporting, reassuring, comforting, guiding, shielding and protecting you. Angels will always be ready and willing to answer your requests through their radiance, grace and love of mankind, to change your life for the better.
