Author: Kent Haruf
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Plainsong
Author: Kent Haruf
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Plainchant for Everyone
Author: Mary Berry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
One of the best introductions to plainsong available, written by Dr Mary Berry, who has been at the forefront of a renewed interest in the study and use of plainsong.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
One of the best introductions to plainsong available, written by Dr Mary Berry, who has been at the forefront of a renewed interest in the study and use of plainsong.
The English Gradual
Author: Francis Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021178
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
These simple settings of the Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, tracts, offertories and Communions are intended for the use of parish choirs at the principal service on Sundays and Holy-days throughout the Christian year.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021178
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
These simple settings of the Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, tracts, offertories and Communions are intended for the use of parish choirs at the principal service on Sundays and Holy-days throughout the Christian year.
Western Plainchant
Author: David Hiley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198165729
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198165729
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
The Elements of Plainsong
Author: Henry Bremridge Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chants (Anglican)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chants (Anglican)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Rscm Guide to Plainchant
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854021871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Dictionary of English Church History
Author: Gordon Crosse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Plainsong Accompaniment
Author: John Henry Arnold
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Gregorian Semiology
Author: Eugène Cardine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Hymnal 1982 Companion
Author: Raymond F. Glover
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780898691436
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The complete four-volume set includes major essays and relevant discussions of the musical forms in The Hymnal 1982 which cover such topics as popular religious song, cultural diversity, the relationship between The Hymnal 1982 and the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer, the development of service music in the Episcopal Church, hymn forms, and a brief history of Christian hymnody in the United States and Britain. In addition, complete information is given on all hymns and service music which includes the sources of text and music as well as biographical and technical facts. (2,949 pp)
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780898691436
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The complete four-volume set includes major essays and relevant discussions of the musical forms in The Hymnal 1982 which cover such topics as popular religious song, cultural diversity, the relationship between The Hymnal 1982 and the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer, the development of service music in the Episcopal Church, hymn forms, and a brief history of Christian hymnody in the United States and Britain. In addition, complete information is given on all hymns and service music which includes the sources of text and music as well as biographical and technical facts. (2,949 pp)