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Bach, Johann Sebastian (A-Z entry)
As a composer of liturgical music during much of his career, Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) engaged a tradition of musical ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Beethoven, Ludwig van (A-Z entry)
Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ) set the standard in many genres for the generations of composers who followed him, especially with ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Bible on Broadway, The (A-Z entry)
The medium of the Broadway musical allows stories from the epic to the introspective to reach a diverse audience of loyal theatergoers. Writers have ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible
Blues Music (A-Z entry)
The blues is an American musical genre that is one of the most enduring musical and cultural achievements of the African American experience. The ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Brahms, Johannes (A-Z entry)
The composer Johannes Brahms (b. Hamburg, 7 May 1833 ; d. Vienna, 3 April 1897 ) was a central figure in Western European musical ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Britten, Benjamin (A-Z entry)
The English composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, East Suffolk, on 22 November 1913 (coincidentally the feast day of Cecilia, the patron saint ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Bruckner, Joseph Anton (A-Z entry)
Joseph Anton Bruckner (b. Ansfelden, Austria, 4 September 1824 ; d. Vienna, Austria, 11 October 1896 ) was a nineteenth-century composer and organist best ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Cantata (A-Z entry)
As used in connection with the Bible and the arts in modern times, “cantata” usually refers to vocal/instrumental works composed for the Lutheran liturgy, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Christian Music, Contemporary (A-Z entry)
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, millions of Christians listened to contemporary Christian music (CCM), which they considered to be entertaining, inspiring, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Cohen, Leonard (A-Z entry)
The focus of this article will be on Leonard Cohen’s (b. 1934 ) musical work. Scrolling through the lyrics of Cohen’s songs, it makes ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Coins with Musical Instruments. (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
Copland, Aaron (A-Z entry)
Aaron Copland ( 1900 – 1990 ) was the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to America who owned and operated a department store in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Country Music (A-Z entry)
In 1922 Eck Robertson did the earliest documented record of what would be later called “hillbilly music.” Ralph Peer coined the term as a ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Crosby, Frances Jane (A-Z entry)
Frances Jane Crosby (aka Fanny J. Crosby Van Alstyne) was born in Southeast, New York (near current-day Brewster), on 20 March 1820 to John ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Dylan, Bob (A-Z entry)
Though best known as a singer-songwriter of the 1960s, Bob Dylan’s (b. 1941 ) artistic achievements are much too diverse to encapsulate within such ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
fear (A-Z entry)
Although there are occasions in the Bible when the word fear represents the human emotion of terror ( Exod. 23: 27 ), there is ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
feasts (A-Z entry)
Occasions of commemoration and religious thanksgiving . Regular days were set aside for Hebrews when they could relax and enjoy themselves with music and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Folk Music (A-Z entry)
Theologians are fond of quoting the early church father Tertullian (ca. 160 – 225 c.e. ) when they wish to question whether two topics ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Gloria in Excelsis (A-Z entry)
A liturgical hymn based on the angels ' song of Luke 2: 14 ; in early and medieval times of the Church it formed ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Gospel Music (A-Z entry)
“The Battle Is Not Yours, It’s the Lord’s” sang Yolanda Adams on her 1988 album Save the World. The recording went on to become ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
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