The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More

There were a variety of courses within the final many years at the Bible in literature, movie, and paintings. yet previously, no reference paintings has but seemed at the Bible because it looks in Western song. In The Bible in track: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, students Siobhan Dowling lengthy and John F. A. Sawyer right this hole in Biblical reference literature, delivering for the 1st time a handy consultant to musical interpretations of the Bible. along examples of classical song from the center a long time via sleek occasions, Dowling lengthy and Sawyer additionally convey cognizance to the Bible’s influence on pop culture with a variety of entries on hymns, spirituals, musicals, movie tune, and modern renowned music.

Each access comprises crucial information regarding the unique context of the paintings (date, composer, etc.) and, the place appropriate, its afterlife in literature, movie, politics, and liturgy. It comprises an index of biblical references and an index of biblical names, in addition to an in depth timeline that brings to the fore key occasions, works and courses, putting them of their old context. there's additionally a bibliography, a word list of technical phrases and an index of artists, authors, and composers.

The Bible in Music will fascinate an individual conversant in the Bible, however it is additionally designed to inspire choirs, musicians, musicologists, academics, lecturers, and scholars of song and spiritual schooling to find and practice a few much less recognized items, in addition to assisting them to hear conventional song with a clean information of what it really is about.

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The Bleeding and demise Christ”). Early Protestant ardour oratorio by way of Reinhard Keiser (1704), one of many first to take advantage of the time period oratorio. it's a surroundings of a poetic textual content through Christian Friedrich Hunold dependent freely at the Gospel bills of the eagerness of Christ. in preference to a narrator, it gains an allegorical personality, the Daughter of Zion (Isa. 62:11; Lam. 1–2; Mic. four; cf. Lk. 23:28), who reviews on emotional occasions within the drama within the demeanour of a Greek refrain. BOBBLE. Opera for a cappella voices, in keeping with the tale of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9), produced and staged through Bobby McFerrin (2009). considered as a brand new type of opera with wordless libretto and viewers participation, it contains 3 acts (“Building,” “Abusing,” and “Rebuilding”). Following its preferable in manhattan, it made its ecu debut on the Stimmen competition in Basel, Switzerland, in 2009 with a solid of 20 singers selected from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, reflecting the confusion of languages and scattering of the peoples of the earth (Gen. 11:9). The act of composition is spontaneous, in response to improvisation led by way of McFerrin, till the concluding act, whilst the folks learn how to hear and sing a cheerful music of social gathering. ebook OF PROVERBS, THE. paintings for soprano, baritone, refrain, and orchestra (1996) by way of American composer Michael Torke, it used to be premiered in Holland in September 1996 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, carried out by way of Edo de Waart. characterised as a postminimalist paintings, it really is dependent in a manner just like Torke’s different paintings, 4 Proverbs (1993), with the phrases of the textual content damaged up into shorter, identifiable rhythmic and melodic segments. equally, the syntax of every proverb is jumbled to stress person phrases, reminiscent of “house a strife greater than with complete feasting crust with of dry piece a” (Prov. 17:1). After an instrumental creation, repetition within the moment move, “The Door Turns” (Prov. 26:14), sung via altos and tenors, lulls listeners nearly right into a country of hypnosis. “Better a Dry Crust” (Prov. 17:1) is sung to a lilting lively melody through sopranos and altos and “The Whip for the pony” (Prov. 26:3, 7, eleven) by way of tenors and basses to the accompaniment of a whip. The 5th circulation, “The means of an Eagle” (Prov. 30:18–19), sung by way of a soprano solo, sopranos, and altos, paints the flight of a hovering eagle and is via “Drink our fill of affection” (Prov. 37:7–10, thirteen, 15–23; 30:20), sung through baritone solo, tenors, and basses, equivalent to “Drink Water” from the composer’s previous paintings 4 Proverbs. The paintings ends with “Like the fellow who Seizes” (Prov. 28:17), sung via sopranos, altos, and tenors, and “Boast now not of the next day” (Prov. 27:1) with a whole refrain. BOSOM OF ABRAHAM. Gospel song/spiritual by means of William Johnson, George McFadden, and Philip Brooks encouraged through Lk. 16:22, played via Elvis Presley at the modern gospel tune album He Touched Me (1972) in addition to on one of many The Jubilee four maximum Spirituals (1996). BREADTH OF HEAVEN. (“Mary’s Song”).

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