The A to Z of Sacred MusicNearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another, music is present. In fact, in some traditions the relation between the music and the ritual is so intimate that to distinguish between them would be inaccurate. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions. |
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Texts of the Roman Catholic Rites | 235 |
Shema and Kaddish | 243 |
Bibliography | 251 |
About the Author | 299 |
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16th century Agnus Alleluia American Anglican anthems antiphons aria Bach's Baroque Biblical Byzantine chant cantatas canticles cantor cantus firmus cappella Cathedral Chapel choir chorale chorus Christian church music collection composed composition concert continuo cori spezzati Deum divine office drum earliest early English famous feasts four four-voiced fugues genre George Frideric Handel German Giovanni Giovanni da Palestrina Gloria Gregorian chant Handel harmonic Holy hymn Hymnal imitation instruments Italian Jewish Johann Sebastian Bach John Josquin Desprez keyboard Kyrie late Latin liturgical music liturgy Lutheran maestro Magnificat meter metrical Missa mode modern motets movements notation opera oratorios orchestra organist Palestrina passion performance pipe organ pitch polyphony prayers preludes psalm tones published rāgas recitative reform repertory Requiem responsorial rite Rome sacred concertos sacred music secular settings singers solo soloists sonatas sources spiritual stile antico style sung technique tenor texts texture tion traditional tropes tunes Venice verse vespers vocal voices