New PDF release: The A to Z of Sacred Music (The A to Z Guide Series)

By Joseph P. Swain

ISBN-10: 0810876213

ISBN-13: 9780810876217

approximately all non secular traditions have reserved a distinct position for sacred track. if it is tune accompanying a ritual or simply for devotional reasons, track composed for whole congregations or for the proficient soloist, or tune set to holy phrases or only instrumental, in a few shape or one other, track is current. in truth, in a few traditions the relation among the song and the ritual is so intimate that to tell apart among them will be inaccurate.

The A to Z of Sacred Music covers an important features of the sacred track of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and different smaller spiritual teams. It presents precious info on the entire major traditions of this song by using a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant forms of tune, composers, key non secular figures, really good positions, genres of composition, technical phrases, tools, primary files and resources, major areas, and significant musical compositions.

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