Music-Religious-Christian

In Carols with Classics, Tom Fettke skillfully merges beloved Christmas carols with favorite classical works by master composers. Titles: Away in a Manger with Brahms' Lullaby (Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht) * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear with Liebestr ume * Joy to...

Find Your Way to Greater Closeness with GodJeff Deyo invites you into a conversation about worship in a book that was written for anyone seeking to experience the Lord in a deeper way.Does God's presence seem distant? Do you have a friend who has...

A perfect example of the young Britten's masterful vocal writing in a Christmas choral suite destined to become a major repertoire work. Titles: Christ's Nativity * Sweet was the Song * Preparations * New Price * New Pomp and Carol of King Cnut.Author: Benjamin...

The most famous musicians of early modern Milan were its cloistered nuns, despite the efforts of church officials to limit their musical lives. This book details the cultural context, religious traditions, musical styles, and personal meaning of the music written by and for them...

Play and sing the music of today's top Christian artists with easy piano arrangements of 20 hit songs. Due to their popularity and playability on piano, they rank among the top-selling sheet music titles in their genre. For practice, performance, and expression of faith...

A Romantic-Style Service combines favorite hymns with excerpts from beloved masterworks by Romantic period composers---Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg, MacDowell, Sibelius, and Rachmaninoff. These medleys range from meditative to jubilant and can be used for various types of services. Titles: Amazing Grace / Sibelius's...

Deborah Justice teaches at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University and is Managing Director of the Cornell Concert Series at Cornell University. She is the author of Middle Eastern Music for Hammered Dulcimer.Author: Deborah JusticeISBN-10: 1438489625ISBN-13: 9781438489629Publisher: State University of New York...

J.C. Ryle was well known for his warm, plain-spoken candor, the kind which appeals to all souls regardless of rank or title, and this short book is no different. Bold, encouraging, and affectionate, "A Call to Prayer" is just as the title says-an earnest...

"A Call to Prayer" is the inspiring and encouraging treatise on the importance of prayer by J. C. Ryle, the acclaimed 19th century English Anglican bishop, author, and first bishop of Liverpool. Ryle was beloved by many all over the world for his kind...

Author: J. C. RyleISBN-10: 1611047900ISBN-13: 9781611047905Publisher: Waymark BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2020Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Provides 50 hymn-tunes with thrilling last-verse accompaniments by such Church Music luminaries as Sir David Willcocks, George Guest, Herbert Sumsion, Martin How and Sydney Nicholson.Author: Gerald H. KnightISBN-10: 0854020179ISBN-13: 9780854020171Publisher: Royal School of Church MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x...

Two questions lie at the heart of this rich, suggestive book: What are the theological implications of worship? and What are the liturgical implications of theology? Convinced that worship and theology are integrally related, the authors of A More Profound Alleluia show in practical...

A Call to Peace contains 10 favorite hymns skillfully arranged for late intermediate to early advanced pianists by Melody Bober. These arrangements offer the comfort, care, and encouragement necessary for weathering the storms of life. Additionally, approximate performance times are included with each arrangement,...

A book all about the Welsh love of song, and the singing of hymns in particular, and how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Wales - thanks...

(Harp). For beginning and advanced harpists. Each is arranged in an easy version and a more difficult version. Each carol also contains lyrics and chord indications for harpists or other instrumentalists. The two arrangements can also be played as a duet. Songs include: Angels...

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.Author: Deborah JusticeISBN-10: 1438489617ISBN-13: 9781438489612Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 266Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize:...

A Classical-Style Service combines favorite hymns with excerpts from beloved masterworks by Classical period composers---Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Clementi. These medleys range from meditative to jubilant and can be used for various types of services. Titles: Abide with Me / Haydn's Cello Concerto in...

Alfred's Basic Piano Library---Popular Hits answers the often expressed need for popular music to be used as supplementary music for students. Soon after beginning piano study, students can play attractive versions of the best-known melodies of today. This book is a compilation of Level...

Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Popular Hits answers the often expressed need for popular music to be used as supplementary music for students. Soon after beginning piano study, students can play attractive versions of the best-known melodies of today. This book is a compilation of...

40 Old Time Hymns - Mandolin Songbook for Beginners with Tabs and Chords40 Old Time Hymns is a new book of songs from the past, and in my opinion, golden times. These 40 beautiful pearls are intended for people who, despite all the daily...

"This is my body," said Jesus at the Last Supper. What did he mean? Throughout church history, there have been various interpretations of his words. These differences have caused denominational ruptures that have yet to heal.In A Holy Meal, Gordon T. Smith shows that...

A Contemporary Christmas contains nine early advanced piano arrangements of popular contemporary Christian and classic Christmas favorites that are perfect for worship services. The arrangements can be used effectively as prelude music at the beginning of services, or whenever reflective music is required. Helpful...

Beginning pianists will love playing the music of Christmas with this new volume of holiday songs in musically attractive, pedagogically sound, and fun-to-play arrangements. These expert settings explore a full and satisfying piano sound within the natural capabilities of the novice performer. Twenty holiday...

A Traditional Christmas contains 18 intermediate to early advanced piano arrangements of familiar songs that are perfect for worship services. Helpful fingering and approximate performance times are included with each arrangement. Titles: Angels from the Realms of Glory * Angels We Have Heard On...

This collection of 100 melodies features such beloved hymns as A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Amazing Grace, Faith of Our Fathers, We Gather Together, and Onward, Christian Soldiers. Although specially arranged for organ, the hymns can be played on any keyboard instrument.Editor Rollin...

"Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer." -- J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle observed that private prayer is both the most important and the most neglected of the Christian disciplines, so he delivers this passionate and reasoned call to private prayer. As...

(Guitar Collection). Two dozen tunes playable on guitar using only G, C and D chords. Includes: Agnus Dei * Because We Believe * Enough * Father I Adore You * Here I Am to Worship * Lord I Lift Your Name on High *...

Even as worship wars in the church and music controversies in society at large continue to rage, many people do not realize that conflict over music goes back to the earliest Christians as they sought to live out the "new song" of their faith....

The Gregorian Communion antiphons from the Graduale Romanum printed together with fully notated psalm verses. The text of the verses are from the Latin Vulgate (as in the 1962 Solesmes volume, "Versus Psalmorum et Canticum") with an inline English translation (Douay-Rheims).This Justitias Books edition...

Lectionary scripture citations with corresponding hymns. This is also a handy reference for locating the liturgical day when each scripture text is used.Author: Church PublishingISBN-10: 089869146XISBN-13: 9780898691467Publisher: Church PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1988Pages: 303Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.30w x 1.50d

Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume - the first to be devotedexclusively to medieval motets - aims to provide a comprehensive guide to...

This collection includes 12 easy arrangements of the most popular Christian songs from 2016. From ballads to up-tempo styles, these songs will be inspirational for all pianists. Titles: Call It Grace (Unspoken) * Even So Come (Come Lord Jesus) (Chris Tomlin) * Ever Be...

A Virtuosic Christmas includes timeless Christmas classics that incorporate new harmonic subtleties into arrangements that present a challenging and rewarding experience to advanced pianists. These uplifting settings reflect the comfort and joy that inspired the arranger to create them. Titles: Fantasy on Ode to...

This book is Bishop Ryle's clarion call for the careless believer lax about prayer. It is characteristically warm, and readable- but poignantly urgent. Prayerlessness was a problem in Bishop Ryle's day, but it is endemic in ours. Almost no one is passionate about prayer...

Fifty titles (includes duet versions of some Christmas favorites): Angels We Have Heard on High * Auld Lang Syne * Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella * Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * Jingle...

These fresh-sounding, jazzy piano arrangements are great for church services, Christmas programs, concerts, and recitals. A recording is included, which features the composer at the piano performing all of the selections. It also includes optional bass and drum parts for six of the arrangements,...

This collection of thirty hymns and songs are suitable for all-age Christian worship in a variety of settings - house churches, small congregations, formal and informal. The contemporary texts by poet David Wright are either based on scripture or highlight such themes as community,...

This collection contains 10 uniquely arranged hymns. These arrangements are suitable for wedding preludes, church service preludes, offertories, special music selections, and postludes. Titles: And Can It Be? (Amazing Love) * It's Just Like His Great Love * Jesus Loves Even Me * Jesus...

An essential guide for anyone who plans, performs, or takes part in the music and worship of the church. Includes helpful planning forms and extensive indices for The Hymnal 1982 not found elsewhere. Author: Marion J. HatchettISBN-10: 0898691761ISBN-13: 9780898691764Publisher: Church PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 252Format:...

The Christian practice of hymn singing, says renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, is a countercultural act. It marks the Christian community as different from an unforgiving and often ungrateful culture. It is also, he adds, an "absurd enterprise in the midst of the hyper-busy,...

This edition of Brahms's greatest, most ambitious vocal work is reprinted from the definitive edition of the composer's works prepared by Breitkopf & H rtel of Leipzig. Inexpensive, yet sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical...

J.C. Ryle was well known for his warm, plain-spoken candor, the kind which appeals to all souls regardless of rank or title, and this booklet is no different. Bold, encouraging, and affectionate, "A Call to Prayer" is just as the title says-an earnest invitation...

2018 Reprint of 1976 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Originally published during the American Civil War, Ryle starts this short work with the question: "Do you pray?" His pastoral experience had convinced him that many Christians...

2015 Modern Christian Hits for Ukulele contains 18 of this year's biggest Christian chart hits and worship songs, including music from Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, Matt Redman, Lincoln Brewster, and more. Each song is carefully arranged for the ukulele based on every artist's live...

"This wonderful little book is the chant-equivalent of Dick and Jane...a refreshing way to reduce an idiom carrying with it a mysterious theoretical and stylistic aura to the fundamental, even primal musical language"Haig Maridosian - The American OrganistThis is the easiest book in print...

A Heart of Worship will energize and invigorate your worship life, changing forever the way you view your potential, ability, and experience worship.The book is filled with inspiration to ignite in you worship the Lord seeks. You will discover: * How to instill passion...

You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it's a huge job. And it's an important job - one which requires you to have your head around both...

Now in paper!"There is a distinct weariness with market-driven, showbiz worship. The pendulum has swung to the longing for transcendence, substance, challenge, and biblically driven worship. Michael Horton shows us the way." --Robert Webber, president, Institute for Worship Studies; author of Ancient-Future Faith"Horton's enlivening...

This recent addition to the Acoustic Masterclass series features 12 beautiful acoustic guitar interpretations of classic Christmas music as performed by David Cullen, Doug Smith, and Laurence Juber. The included CD contains the original recordings from three beautiful Christmas CDs from Cullen, Smith, and...

This collection contains selections written by Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Paul Baloche, and other favorite contemporary Christian songwriters. The easily accessible arrangements include approximate performance times to aid planning. Titles: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Come, Now Is the Time to...