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Over-Generalizing, Under-Promising, and Over-Promising: Singing Sadness and Joy in the Church

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this article, I examine the emotional content of songs sung in Christian churches. An analysis of the lyrical content of the songs that have been tracked by Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) from 1988 to 2018, shows there is a ...
Daniel Jesse
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The 'cognitive' and the 'emotive' component in Christian songs: Tracing the shifts in traditional and contemporary songs

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2015
This research article is based on the author s doctoral research into the question of quality criteria for Christian songs. In many Christian congregations today, the question of music is an emotive issue as the service and its music touch the heart of ...
J. Gertrud T�nsing   +2 more
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Requiem. Resonanzen katholischer Totenliturgie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

open access: yesYearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2018
Liturgical music at Roman-Catholic funerals has a very diverse character in contemporary Western society, especially in a strongly secularized country like the Netherlands.
Thomas Quartier
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Music Drama as a Christian Parable: Mozart’s Idomeneo

open access: yesReligions
This article discusses Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Idomeneo: Re di Creta (1781, to a text by Giambattista Varesco) as a Christian parable in the historical context of its genesis.
Nils Holger Petersen
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Popular culture and the ’darker side’ of alternative spirituality: the case of metal music

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2009
Metal is perhaps the most extreme and aggressive form of contemporary Western popular music. Even though it continues to spark controversy and debate, it has also enjoyed enduring popularity for decades and has spread on a global scale.
Marcus Moberg
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Ethnomusicology in Church Music Education: Revitalizing Batak Musical Values and Practices

open access: yesEdukasia
This study aims to analyze the role of ethnomusicology in church music education as an effort to revitalize the values and practices of Batak music in the context of contemporary Christian worship.
Boho Parulian Pardede
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Asa, Allyson, and Davies: Three Amazons of Tonal Integrity in Yoruba Vocal Music

open access: yesEastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
The existing body of literature has engaged the translation of English hymns to the Yorùbá language by European missionaries sung to European tunes, which constituted linguistic distortion of the Yorùbá language. Little or no attention has been given to
Tolu Owoaje, Oluwaseun Owoaje
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Omnibus: The Boston University Collegium in Contemporary Music, March 24, 1987 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
This is the concert program of the Omnibus: The Boston University Collegium in Contemporary Music performance on Tuesday, March 24, 1987 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Symphonie, Op.
School of Music, Boston University
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“To Sing with the Spirit:” Psalms, Hymns and the Spirituality of Late Eighteen Century American Presbyterians

open access: yesReligions, 2013
This paper contends that the contemporary discussion among theologians regarding the relationship between theology and spirituality can offer new insight into the eighteenth century religious world.
William Harrison Taylor
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