Hymns To The Silence

Author : Peter Mills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441101586
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hymns to the Silence written by Peter Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hymns to the Silence is a thoroughly informed and enlightened study of the art of a pop music maverick that will delight fans the world over. In 1991, Van Morrison said, Music is spiritual, the music business isn't. Peter Mills' groundbreaking book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. Hymns to the Silence is a detailed investigative study of Morrison as singer, performer, lyricist, musician and writer with particular attention paid throughout to the contradictions and tensions that are central to any understanding of his work as a whole. The book takes several intriguing angles. It looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe, and who regularly drops quotes from James Joyce and Samuel Beckett into his live performances. It looks at him as a singer, at how he uses his voice as an interpretive instrument. And there are chapters on his use of mythology, on his stage performances, and on his continuing fascination with America and its musical forms.

Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848253699
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word into Silence written by John Main and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.

Author : Jaroslav J. Vajda
Publisher : Morning Star Music Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780944529010
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now the Joyful Celebration written by Jaroslav J. Vajda and published by Morning Star Music Pub. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoff Munns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000810232
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting written by Geoff Munns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn about Van Morrison’s life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, ‘Cleaning Windows’ and ‘The Healing Game’. Others are less familiar. Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career, starting from the Them period and extending through his solo albums. These readings show how thinking about Morrison’s use of place provides a specific lens that contributes to a greater understanding of his art. The songs are organized into chapters that reflect many of the important places in Morrison’s work as he ventured professionally and imaginatively away from the places of his upbringing towards a wider musical world. These places are in city streetscapes and country landscapes – in home places of streets and ditches, in the enclosed spaces of rooms, in the expansive reaches of the natural world, in indeterminate and specific foreign lands. A picture emerges of the journey that Van Morrison details through his songs, one that sees him first wandering as a boy through his East Belfast haunts, and then venturing out to a wider world away from this local place.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devotional Pieces written by and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Shir¿ Inouye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948218979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hymns of Silence written by Charles Shir¿ Inouye and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878277
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Blood and Bones Cry Out written by John Paul Lederach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world communities that have suffered the trauma of unspeakable violence--in Liberia, Somalia, West Africa, Columbia, and elsewhere--are struggling to recover and reconcile, searching for ways not just to survive but to heal. In When Blood and Bones Cry Out, John Paul Lederach, a pioneer of peace-building, and his daughter, Angela Jill Lederach, show how communities can recover and reconnect through the power of making music, creating metaphors, and telling their extraordinary stories of suffering and survival. Instead of relying on more common linear explanations of healing and reconciliation, the Lederachs demonstrate how healing is circular, dynamic, and continuing, even in the midst of ongoing violence. They explore the concept of "social healing," a profoundly important intermediary step between active warfare and reconciliation. Social healing focuses on the lived experience of those who have suffered protracted violence and their need to give voice to that experience, both individually and collectively. Giving voice, speaking the unspeakable, in words and sounds that echo throughout traumatized communities, can have enormous healing power. Indeed, the Lederachs stress the remarkable effects of sound and vibration through tales of Tibetan singing bowls, Van Morrison's transcendent lyrics, the voices of mothers in West Africa, and their own personal journeys. And they include inspiring stories of transformation: a mass women's protest movement in Liberia that forces leaders to keep negotiating until a peace agreement is signed; elders in Somalia who walk between warring clans year after year to encourage dialogue; former child soldiers who run drum workshops and grow gardens in refugee camps; and rape victims in Sierra Leone who express their pain in poetry. With equal measures of insight and compassion, When Blood and Bones Cry Out offers a promising new approach to healing traumatized communities.

Author : Keith Getty
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 146274267X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sing! written by Keith Getty and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lauren Onkey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113516570X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity written by Lauren Onkey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black" identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle, James Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Jimmy Breslin; playwright Ned Harrigan; political activists Bernadette Devlin and Tom Hayden; and musicians Van Morrison, U2, and Black 47.

Author : Saint Ephraem (Syrus)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813227356
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns on Faith written by Saint Ephraem (Syrus) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephrem is known for a theology that relies heavily on symbol and for a keen awareness of Jewish exegetical traditions. Yet he is also our earliest source for the reception of Nicaea among Syriac-speaking Christians. It is in his eighty-seven Hymns on Faith - the longest extant piece of early Syriac literature - that he develops his arguments against subordinationist christologies most fully. These hymns, most likely delivered orally and compiled after the author's death, were composed in Nisibis and Edessa between the 350s ans 373. They reveal an author conversant with Christological debates further to the west, but responding in a uniquely Syriac idiom. As such, they form an essential source for reconstructing the development of pro-Nicene thought in the eastern Mediterranean.