Secular Music and Other Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secular Music and Other Poems write by Matt Proser. This book was released on 2020-12-16. Secular Music and Other Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Secular Music and Other Poems By: Matt Proser Poet Matt Proser finds his poetic identity in nature and locality. He expresses himself through descriptive details of localities such as the Outer Banks in North Carolina, Seattle, Connecticut, or in various places in Argentina. For Proser, an engagement with place is a new engagement with life, and travel is adventure, trial, and rebirth, but underneath these runs the pulse of nature and the instinctive self that guides his language. Proser’s poems are attempts to release the primitive energy hidden within us; energy associated with the pleasure or pain that exists in human relationships such as love, marriage, friendship, or even social being, and their opposite, death. Thus, language is the staff that leads us from the outer world of civilized communication to the intense world of illogical feeling, the residue of our primitive past. In so doing, his poetry at times engages myth, the basis of all art, and music, the voice of the inexpressible. Secular Music encompasses a particular segment of Proser’s life during which he attempted disentangle the world with words that reached into the meaning of the human experiences he was having.
The Flower of Paradise
The Flower of Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flower of Paradise write by David J. Rothenberg. This book was released on 2011-09-14. The Flower of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms--Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian chant, and love songs and lyrics from medieval courtly song. Yet despite their obvious similarities, the two musical and poetic traditions have rarely been studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes on this task with remarkable success, producing a useful and broad introduction to Marian music and liturgy, and then coupling that with an incisive comparative analysis of these devotional forms and the words and music of secular love songs of the period. The Flower of Paradise examines the interplay of Marian devotional and secular poetics within polyphonic music from ca. 1200 to ca. 1500. Through case studies of works that demonstrate a specific symbolic resonance between Marian devotion and secular song, the book illustrates the distinctive ethos of this period in European culture. Rothenberg makes use of an impressive command of liturgical and religious studies, literature and poetry, and art history to craft a study with wide application across disciplinary boundaries. With its broad scope and unique, incisive analysis, this book will open up new ways of thinking about the history and development of secular and sacred music and the Marian tradition for scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance religious culture.
Temperance Echoes
Temperance Echoes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temperance Echoes write by William Dressler. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Temperance Echoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Temperance Echoes: A Collection of Sacred and Secular Music, Suitable for Temperance Gatherings, Glee Clubs, and the Home Circle, the Music Adapted to Original Words Tempt ed, my broth er, to take the first drink! For that has oft bro't men to 2. Don't be tempt -cd, my broth er, to take the first drink!from that to the downward path. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Hymnal
The Hymnal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hymnal write by Christopher N. Phillips. This book was released on 2018-08-01. The Hymnal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
Literary Sources Of Secular Music In Italy (ca. 1500)
Literary Sources Of Secular Music In Italy (ca. 1500) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Sources Of Secular Music In Italy (ca. 1500) write by Walter Howard Rubsamen. This book was released on 1972-09-21. Literary Sources Of Secular Music In Italy (ca. 1500) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
