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The Reason to Sing

Author : Craig Carnelia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000361889

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In The Reason to Sing, renowned composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their singing performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life. Using a technique developed over decades of teaching the professional community of Broadway actors and students alike, The Reason to Sing utilizes detailed descriptions of sessions the author has had with his notable students and lays out a new and proven approach to help you build your skills, your confidence, and your career. This book is intended for musical theater acting students as well as working professionals and teachers of the craft.

Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, but Enough

Author : Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781638340102

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OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.

I Choose to Sing

Author : Bethany McClurg
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973616443

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What happens when a young woman promises God everything and he takes it? With an unquenchable passion to glorify her Savior at nineteen years old, Bethany McClurg was on the cusp of following her dreams into a life of music and ministry. Suddenly diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia just two weeks after resolutely committing to follow God wherever he would lead, she was thrown into a journey that would draw her farther from her own dreams and closer to her God than she ever could have imagined. In this honest and inspiring account of her battle with a life-threatening disease and its ensuing complications, Bethany stands bravely behind the shield of faith to confront the far more wearisome battles of unbridled fear, despair, and discouragement. The cornerstone of her very existence is altered as the cross becomes her beacon and strength, taking the place of broken dreams and shattered trust. Then like a songbird on wings of grace, she emerges from the valley of the shadow of death, beckoning others to choose to sing of his love once again and forever.

The Reason Why We Sing

Author : Dr Heather Josselyn Cranson
Publisher : OSL Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1878009737

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The Reason Why We Sing by Dr Heather Josselyn Cranson Pdf

What is music during the worship service supposed to do? Dr. Heather Josselyn-Cranson proposes that there are several roles for music in worship and that these roles are manifested in various worshiping traditions. In this book, she hopes to give readers a renewed respect for their own traditions, but also a new-found understanding of the different genres of music sung by Christians today, each with its own function and charm.

Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004522053

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Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity by Anonim Pdf

Open Access for this publication was made possible by a generous donation from Segelbergska stiftelsen för liturgivetenskaplig forskning (The Segelbergska Foundation for Research in Liturgical Studies). In a seminal study, Cur cantatur?, Anders Ekenberg examined Carolingian sources for explanations of why the liturgy was sung, rather than spoken. This multidisciplinary volume takes up Ekenberg’s question anew, investigating the interplay of New Testament writings, sacred spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history of liturgical practices and traditions. Analyses of Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic, and Gǝʿǝz sources, as well as of archaeological and epigraphic evidence, illuminate an array of topics, including recent trends in liturgical studies; manuscript variants and liturgical praxis; Ignatius of Antioch’s choral metaphor; baptism in ancient Christian apocrypha; and the significance of late ancient altar veils.

So You Want to Sing Cabaret

Author : David Sabella,Sue Matsuki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538124055

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So You Want to Sing Cabaret by David Sabella,Sue Matsuki Pdf

Cabaret performances are often known for bringing alive the Great American Songbook from the 1920s through the 1950s for contemporary audiences. But modern-day cabaret does much more than preserve the past—it also promotes and fosters the new generation of American composers and creates a uniquely vibrant musical and theatrical experience for its audiences. So You Want to Sing Cabaret is the first book of its kind to examine in detail the unique vocal and nonvocal requirements for professional performance within the exciting genre of cabaret. With a foreword by cabaret legend Lorna Luft, So You Want to Sing Cabaret includes interviews from the top professionals in the cabaret industry, including Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Callaway, Roy Sander, Sidney Myer, Jeff Harner and many others. There are also chapters devoted to crafting your show, lyric connection, “do-it-yourself” production and promotion, and working with your musical team. David Sabella and Sue Matsuki have crafted the perfect one-volume resource for both the aspiring cabaret singer and the singing teacher who seeks to learn more about this unique art form. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Cabaret features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Sing!

Author : Keith Getty,Kristyn Getty
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462742677

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Sing! has grown from Keith and Kristyn Getty’s passion for congregational singing; it’s been formed by their traveling and playing and listening and discussing and learning and teaching all over the world. And in writing it, they have five key aims: • to discover why we sing and the overwhelming joy and holy privilege that comes with singing • to consider how singing impacts our hearts and minds and all of our lives • to cultivate a culture of family singing in our daily home life • to equip our churches for wholeheartedly singing to the Lord and one another as an expression of unity • to inspire us to see congregational singing as a radical witness to the world They have also added a few “bonus tracks” at the end with some more practical suggestions for different groups who are more deeply involved with church singing. God intends for this compelling vision of His people singing—a people joyfully joining together in song with brothers and sisters around the world and around his heavenly throne—to include you. He wants you,he wants us, to sing.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Singing the Congregation

Author : Monique M. Ingalls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190499662

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Singing the Congregation by Monique M. Ingalls Pdf

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations--Singing the Congregation reinvigorates the analytic categories of "congregation" and "congregational music." Drawing from theoretical models in ethnomusicology and congregational studies, Singing the Congregation reconceives the congregation as a fluid, contingent social constellation that is actively performed into being through communal practice--in this case, the musically-structured participatory activity known as "worship." "Congregational music-making" is thereby recast as a practice capable of weaving together a religious community both inside and outside local institutional churches. Congregational music-making is not only a means of expressing local concerns and constituting the local religious community; it is also a powerful way to identify with far-flung individuals, institutions, and networks that comprise this global religious community. The interactions among the congregations reveal widespread conflicts over religious authority, carrying far-ranging implications for how evangelicals position themselves relative to other groups in North America and beyond.

Why Suyá Sing

Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252072022

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"Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony." "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers." -- Prové de l'editor.

Why Catholics Can't Sing

Author : Thomas Day
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824511530

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This book is about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community as reflected in the way Christians worship.

All God's People Sing

Author : Concordia Publishing House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0570012074

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All God's People Sing by Concordia Publishing House Pdf

Presents hymns and spirituals which accompany the Lutheran worship service.

Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing

Author : Natalie O. Kononenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317453130

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Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing by Natalie O. Kononenko Pdf

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns

Author : T. David Gordon
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 1596381957

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Changes in music have affected the way we think, the way we worship-even the way we are able to worship. We are steeped in a culture of pop music that makes other genres seem strangely foreign and unhelpful. Worship has become a conflict are, rather than a source of unity. Book jacket.

True Worshipers

Author : Bob Kauflin
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433542336

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Everyone worships. But Jesus tells us that God is seeking a particular kind of worshiper. In True Worshipers, a seasoned pastor and musician guides readers toward a more engaging, transformative, and biblically faithful understanding of the worship God is seeking. True worship is an activity rooted in the grace of the gospel that affects every area of our lives. And while worship is more than just singing, God’s people gathering in his presence to lift their voices in song is an activity that is biblically based, historically rooted, and potentially life-changing. Thoroughly based in Scripture and filled with practical guidance, this book connects Sunday worship to the rest of our lives—helping us live as true worshipers each and every day.