God Rest Ye Merry Why Christmas Is The Foundation For Everything

Author : Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591281276

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God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation for Everything by Douglas Wilson Pdf

The repetition of Christmas traditions can appear to dull the powerful nature of the holiday. God Rest Ye Merry is meant to rekindle the Christian's understanding of Advent on every front, from politics to shopping to uproarious celebration. Pastor Douglas Wilson critiques false reasons for the season (and false objections to it), teaches the importance of Israel in Christmastime history, explains why nativity sets should have Herod's soldiers (and how Santa Claus once punched a man in the face at a church council), offers the Enlightenment Assumptions Detector test as a guide to understanding Christmas symbolism, and much more. The last section contains a read-aloud meditation and prayer for each day of Advent, making God Rest Ye Merry an excellent tool for cultivating a deep family love of Christmas.

Author : Ace Collins
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310873877

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Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas by Ace Collins Pdf

Behind the Christmas songs we love to sing lie fascinating stories that will enrich your holiday celebration. Taking you inside the nativity of over thirty favorite songs and carols, Ace Collins introduces you to people you’ve never met, stories you’ve never heard, and meanings you’d never have imagined. The next time you and your family sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," you’ll have a new understanding of its message and popular roots. You’ll discover how "Angels from the Realms of Glory," with its sublime lyrics and profound theology, helped usher in a quiet revolution in worship. You’ll learn the strange history of the haunting and powerful "O Holy Night," including the song’s surprising place in the history of modern communications. And you’ll step inside the life of Mark Lowry and find out how he came to pen the words to the contemporary classic "Mary, Did You Know?"Still other songs such as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" trace back to mysterious origins--to ninth-century monks, nameless clergy, and unknown commoners of ages past. Joining hands with such modern favorites as "White Christmas" and "The Christmas Song," they are part of the legacy of inspiration, faith, tears, love, and spiritual joy that is Christmas. From the rollicking appeal of "Jingle Bells" to the tranquil beauty of "Silent Night," the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world--Jesus, the most wonderful Christmas Song of all.

Author : James McIvor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440627316

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God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers by James McIvor Pdf

In the tradition of the bestselling Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, the true story of a Civil War Christmas miracle In the waning days of 1862, Union and Confederate troops set up camp within earshot of one another in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Christmas had just passed, and for many of these battle-wearied young soldiers the holiday season was a melancholy reminder of the families and loved ones they’d left behind. Bands from both camps played patriotic songs in an attempt to raise spirits, a musical duel that presaged the bloody battle to come. Then, something extraordinary occurred. One of the bands began playing a popular sentimental tune called “Home Sweet Home.” Soon, bands from both sides picked up the tune, and before long thousands of Northern and Southern soldiers had joined together in song. God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story tells the tale of this yuletide interlude, which came at a time when the early optimism of the Civil War had given way to the bitter realities of seemingly endless bloodshed. Told through soldiers’ letters and period songs, God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers is the hopeful and touching story of human compassion in the midst of unspeakable violence.

Author : John Pennino
Publisher : Baskerville Publishers, Inc.
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1880909758

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Risë Stevens by John Pennino Pdf

As an American woman who attained the highest rank in her chosen field, she is an example of what can be accomplished through a combination of natural talent and the will to succeed. Rise's career is unique in that it encompassed opera, recordings, radio, films, television, academic, and arts administration. She was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera for twenty-three seasons. In the 1940s she had her own radio show, she appeared in a classic film. In the 1950s she was a popular guest on television, her recordings sold in the thousands. The complete Carmen has been in print for over fifty years, the Mannes School of Music survived a bleak period in the 1960s because of her, the Metropolitan Opera National Company was launched under her aegis, she is now a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera. This biography will attempt to show in greater detail a career that extended from Brooklyn to Prague, from Canada to South America, from parts of America where a lied or aria had never been heard to the centers of culture, Paris and Milan. Written in her tenth decade, it objectively reflects on a life well managed. Compared to Callas, Rise has lived a long life and has escaped notoriety.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281021

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Donald Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313032622

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One Handed by Donald Patterson Pdf

This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well. Following the introduction are four chapters cataloguing original works for the right hand alone, original works for the left hand alone, music arranged or transcribed for one hand alone, and concerted works for one hand in concert with other pianists, instruments, or voices. Each entry assesses the individual composition, its quality, its difficulty, its particular appeal, and its uses with the composer's name, dates, and nationality, where possible. Also included is a selected discography of commercially produced phonodiscs, compact discs, and cassettes. Instructors and pianists alike will appreciate this exhaustive guide to one-handed piano music. To aid further research, a bibliography of books, articles, and theses about the literature is provided along with a chapter that lists the contents of thirty-six anthologies devoted to one-handed piano music. This unique reference also includes an index.

Author : Joe Glazer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 025207095X

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Labor's Troubadour by Joe Glazer Pdf

For more than half a century, armed only with his guitar, reams of songs, and conviction, Glazer has marshaled the power of music to fight for union representation in mills, mines, factories, and offices all over the country. This title traces the life and work of labor balladeer Joe Glazer.

Author : Boston Area Music Libraries
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 0262021986

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The Boston Composers Project by Boston Area Music Libraries Pdf

The bibliography lists nearly 5,000 compositions by 200 composers of jazz and "art" music, indicating where scores or realizations can be purchased, rented, or borrowed, and which Boston area libraries have them in their collections.

Author : R. Winston Morris,Lloyd E. Bone, Jr.,Eric Paull
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253112248

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Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire by R. Winston Morris,Lloyd E. Bone, Jr.,Eric Paull Pdf

Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire is the most definitive publication on the status of the euphonium in the history of this often misunderstood and frequently under-appreciated instrument. This volume documents the rich history, the wealth of repertoire, and the incredible discography of the euphonium. Music educators, composers/arrangers, instrument historians, performers on other instruments, and students of the euphonium (baritone horn, tenor tuba, etc.) will find the exhaustive research evident in this volume's pages to be compelling and comprehensive. Contributors are Lloyd Bone, Brian L. Bowman, Neal Corwell, Adam Frey, Marc Dickman, Bryce Edwards, Seth D. Fletcher, Carroll Gotcher, Atticus Hensley, Lisa M. Hocking, Sharon Huff, Kenneth R. Kroesche, R. Winston Morris, John Mueller, Michael B. O'Connor, Eric Paull, Joseph Skillen, Kelly Thomas, Demondrae Thurman, Matthew J. Tropman, and Mark J. Walker.

Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UCSC:32106015902437

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Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001 by Joel Whitburn Pdf

From pop music's early LPs to its latest CDs, Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 is a sweeping, stunning saga of Billboard's Pop Albums chart. This artist-by-artist listing includes every charted album from 1955 through June 30, 2001 - over 22,000 in all by more than 5,200 recording artists, and the more than 225,000 cuts from those albums. Along with complete chart data, artist biographies and complete track listings for every artist, Top Pop Albums sports new features such as each album's CD availability, data from the newly researched Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, updated album pricing and more, making this the biggest, broadest, absolute best albums book ever! Hardcover, ISBN 0-89820-147-0.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590352882

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The Family mirror by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Neu
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781365010187

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Worship and Congregational Singing by David Neu Pdf

"This book constitutes the author's effort to provide a biblical foundation for answers to questions regarding congregational singing. The present work is broader in scope than the author's smaller book, Volumes of Praise for a Vanishing God, and unlike the earlier volume, contains full documentation and end-notes, many of which pursue topics of interest that are mentioned only briefly in the text proper. Each chapter of this book ends with a brief list of questions to spur further study and discussion. It is hoped that this book may be useful as a text for a seminary course on congregational singing, a course that the author believes to be great need for the church of the twenty-first century. Special attention is given to the issues raised in the "music wars" of the past fifty years."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Church music
ISBN : UCSC:32106008031392

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The Recording Locator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Brown
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : 9781414306995

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The One Year Great Songs of Faith by Robert Brown Pdf

Experience daily the timeless truths contained in the many celebrated songs of the Christian faith. Each day's devotional includes the text of a classic hymn or song, the inside story about the author or origin of the song, and a related Scripture passage. Be refreshed and strengthened each day by the mighty words that have uplifted God's people through the ages.

Author : Maisey Yates
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369706027

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The Holiday Heartbreaker by Maisey Yates Pdf

A fresh start is all she wants this Christmas, but maybe a cowboy is all she needs… It’s not the holiday season she’d envisioned. But moving back home with her son, Benny, is all single mom Elizabeth Colfax can do after her ex-husband’s infidelity left their life in pieces. A fresh start at Four Corners Ranch means Elizabeth’s dream career in equine therapy can become a reality, allowing her to share her love of horses with Benny. If only it didn’t also mean butting heads with Brody McCloud, the frustratingly attractive cowboy who sets sparks off inside her. Brody doesn’t do complicated, and Elizabeth’s got more baggage than an airport. But there’s something about the woman that’s always gotten under his skin in a very welcome way. As the simmering tension between them grows harder to ignore, they’ll have to decide if their undeniable attraction can outweigh a shared loss of faith in forever. Maybe this Christmas, they can find a family worth fighting for. In the bonus novella Wild Night Cowboy, can a cowboy with a dark past find his future with the one woman he shouldn't touch? Four Corners Ranch Book 1: Unbridled Cowboy Book 2: Merry Christmas Cowboy Book 3: Cowboy Wild Book 4: The Rough Rider Book 5: The Holiday Heartbreaker Book 6: The Troublemaker