Encyclopedia - Sacred Harp: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacred Harp - The Music And Its Notation
The name of the tradition comes from the title of the shape note book from which the music is sung, The Sacred Harp. This book exists tod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred Harp: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacred Harp - Singing Sacred Harp Music
Sacred Harp groups always sing a cappella, that is to say, without accompanying instruments. The singers arrange themselves in a square, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred Harp: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacred Harp - Origins Of The Music
The music used in Sacred Harp singing is eclectic. Most of the songs can be assigned to one of four historical layers. The oldest layer ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Music  : Trimurti Of Maths, Music, Meditation  
Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation and the most beautiful way. Meditation is the art of hearing the ...   » Read the article

Article - Chanting: The Healing Powers Of Ancient Chants  
The sages who gave us the ancient Vedic mantras and hymns were evolved beings who had either attained or come very close to a state of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab Music: Encyclopedia - Arab Music
Arab music is the music of Arabic-speaking people or countries, especially those centered around the Arabian Peninsula.The world of Arab ...   » Read the article

Article - Inner Music: The Divine Music Within Us
Divine music, when you experience it, brings with it intense and lasting bliss. How can one who has heard this divine melody describe it ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Retreats - A Retreat For Enlightenment
Presentation of the Spiritual Reatreats in The Golden City.   » Read the article

Article - Mantra: The Sound Of Your Name As A Mantra
The Sound Of Your Name In the famous Tantra Book, Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, there's one sutra, "Enter the sound of your name and throu...   » Read the article

Article - Healing Music: Music For The Soul
Sound leads to understanding unity and divinity. Hence the importance given to the recitation of the sacred syllable - Om. Whatever the m...   » Read the article

Article - Mantras
Mantras & Yantras Mantra meditation is often called " Mantra Yoga", considered to be a part of "Nada Yoga", which means the "yoga o...   » Read the article

Article - Mantras Yantras: The Meaning Of Mantra
Mantras & Yantras: The Meaning of Mantra Mantras, being sacred sound vibrations, are composed of sacred syllables representative of ...   » Read the article

Article - Sacred Geometry: Yantras - What Is A Yantra?
Sacred Geometry: YANTRAS - What is a Yantra? All ancient cultures had sacred geometric designs representative of their Gods, which had a...   » Read the article

Article - Mantras Yantras: Types Of Yantras
Mantras & Yantras: Types of Yantras These five types of yantras are classed according to the different puja (worship) conducted. Bh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudin De Sermisy: Encyclopedia - Claudin De Sermisy
Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – October 13, 1562) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin he was one of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred: Encyclopedia - Sacred
In various religions, sacred (from Latin, sacrum, "sacrifice") or "holy", objects, places or concepts are believed by followers to be int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824–11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era. Many of his works were savagely critici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred Geometry: Encyclopedia - Sacred Geometry
Sacred geometry is geometry that is sacred to the observer or discoverer of the geometry. This meaning is sometimes described as being th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Music: Encyclopedia - Byzantine Music
Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Chris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vespers: Encyclopedia - Vespers
Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox liturgies of the canonical hours. The word comes from La...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arapaho Music: Encyclopedia - Arapaho Music
The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans from the western Great Plains, in the area of eastern Colorado and Wyoming. Traditional Arapa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Elements Of Buddhism: Encyclopedia - Cultural Elements Of Buddhism
The cultural elements of Buddhism vary by region and include: Buddhist cuisine Buddhist art Buddharupa Art and architecture of Japan ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sacred Music
Mozart's sacred music is mainly vocal, though also instrumental examples exist, like the Sonate da Chiesa for 2 violins, double bass and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Choir: Encyclopedia - Choir
A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A vocal ensemble which sings in a church, or sings exclusively sacred music, is calle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred Harp: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacred Harp - Other Books With The Title Sacred Harp
The Sacred Harp was a popular name for 19th century hymn and tune books, with no fewer than four bearing the title. The first of these wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred Harp: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacred Harp - History Of Sacred Harp Singing
The earliest roots of Sacred Harp singing are found in the American colonial era. At that time, singing schools were created to provide i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab Music - Genres
Arab music - Secular art music. Secular genres include maqam al-iraqi, andalusi nubah, muwashshah, Fjiri songs, qasidah, layali, mawwal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Music - Occasions For Music
The development of music among the Israelites was coincident with that of poetry, the two being equally ancient, since every poem was als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Music - Cantorial And Synagogue Music
The traditional mode of singing prayers in the synagogue is often known as hazzanut,, "the art of being a hazzan (cantor)". It is a style...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab Music - History
Arab music - Early years. By the 11th century, Moorish Spain was a centre for the manufacture of instruments. These spread gradually th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudin De Sermisy: Encyclopedia Ii - Claudin De Sermisy - Works
Claudin de Sermisy - Sacred music. Sermisy wrote both sacred music and secular music, and all of it is for voices. Of his sacred music,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antoine De Bertrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Antoine De Bertrand - Music And Influence
Bertrand published three large books of chansons, and, towards the end of his life, three books of sacred music. A total of 84 chansons a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orlande De Lassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orlande De Lassus - Music And Influence
One of the most prolific, versatile, and universal composers of the late Renaissance, Lassus wrote over 2000 works in all Latin, French, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumer Is Icumen In: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumer Is Icumen In - Latin Lyrics Sacred
This work is also one of the earliest examples of music with both sacred and profane lyrics, though the profane ones are perhaps better k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orlande De Lassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orlande De Lassus - Life
He was born in Mons in the province of Hainaut, in what is today Belgium. Information about his early years is scanty, although some unco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orlande De Lassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orlande De Lassus - Music And Influence
One of the most prolific, versatile, and universal composers of the late Renaissance, Lassus wrote over 2000 works in all Latin, French, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guillaume De Machaut: Encyclopedia Ii - Guillaume De Machaut - Poetry
Guillaume de Machaut's lyric output comprises around 400 poems, including 235 ballades, 76 rondeaux, 39 virelais, 24 lais, 10 complaintes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guillaume De Machaut: Encyclopedia Ii - Guillaume De Machaut - Life
Machaut was probably born and educated in the region around Rheims (his surname most likely derives from his birthplace, the town of Mach...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guillaume De Machaut: Encyclopedia Ii - Guillaume De Machaut - Music
Machaut was by far the most famous and influential composer of the 14th century. His secular song output includes monophonic lais and vir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Bruckner - Biography
Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden to a schoolmaster and organist father with whom he first studied music. He worked for a few years as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Bruckner - Reception In The 20th Century
The Nazis often appropriated the music of Bruckner for propaganda purposes, and Hitler even consecrated a bust of Bruckner at Regensburg'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumer Is Icumen In: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumer Is Icumen In - Music
The original manuscript, written in the mid-13th century, is written in a musical notation somewhat confusing to modern eyes, yet still c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Bruckner - Music
Sometimes Bruckner's works are referred to by WAB numbers, from the Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner, a catalogue of Bruckner's works edite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Bruckner - Reception In The 20th Century
The Nazis often appropriated the music of Bruckner for propaganda purposes. This was in part because Hitler shared Bruckner's hometown of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudin De Sermisy: Encyclopedia Ii - Claudin De Sermisy - Life
Sermisy was most likely born either in Picardy, Burgundy, or Île-de-France, based on the similarity of his surname to place names there....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Herbert Howells: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Herbert Howells - One Or Two Instruments
Keyboard Music. ... See also:List of compositions by Herbert Howells, List of compositions by Herbert Howells - Three or more instru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumer Is Icumen In: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumer Is Icumen In - English Lyrics Profane
The better-known lyrics for this piece are in Middle English, and comprise a song of spring (reverdie): Svmer is icumen in, Lhude sing c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli: Encyclopedia Ii - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - Life
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - Early career. Zingarelli studied at the Loreto Conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza. He concentrated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Solo Piano Music
Mozart's earliest composition attempts begin with piano sonatas and other piano pieces, as this is the instrument on which his musical ed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Chamber Music
List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin music. He also wrote for piano and violin (16 complete sonatas, plus several f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphonies
Mozart's symphonic production covers a 24 year interval, from 1764 to 1788. According to most recent investigations, Mozart wrote not jus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concertos
The apex of Mozart's production in the concerto genre was reached with the Piano Concertos, though he composed several important works fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Compositions By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenades Divertimenti And Other Instrumental Works
The production for instrumental ensembles includes several Divertimenti, Notturni, Serenate, Cassazioni, Marches, and Dances, besides, of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marc-antoine Charpentier: Encyclopedia Ii - Marc-antoine Charpentier - Life
He was born in or near Paris. Born in 1643, he was the son of a master scribe who had very good connections to influential families in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marc-antoine Charpentier: Encyclopedia Ii - Marc-antoine Charpentier - Charpentier's Works
Charpentier's compositions were catalogued by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock. They are often referred to by H (for Hitchcock) number. Marc-Antoine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Music - Origin Of Jewish Music In The Temple
The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Talmud, Joshua ben Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Texas: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Texas - Religious Music
Sacred music has a long tradition in the state of Texas. The East Texas Musical Convention was organized in 1855, and is the oldest Sacre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Alabama: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Alabama - Styles
Gospel music, especially the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, has been especially influential in the state (see also the Birmingham Sunlights)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Georgia U.s. State: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Georgia U.s. State - Folk Music
Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing and African American music. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamin Franklin White: Encyclopedia Ii - Benjamin Franklin White - Musical Career
White and Elisha J. King published The Sacred Harp in 1844, using the four-shape shape note notation. In 1845, he led in the establishmen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ruggiero Giovannelli: Encyclopedia Ii - Ruggiero Giovannelli - Music And Influence
Giovannelli wrote both sacred and secular music. As could be expected for a composer of the Roman School, his sacred music was conservati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vespers: Encyclopedia Ii - Vespers - Current Usage
Vespers - Roman Catholic. The general structure of the Latin Rite Catholic service of vespers is as follows: Vespers opens with the si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vespers: Encyclopedia Ii - Vespers - Historical Development Of Vespers Before The Second Vatican Council
This section incorporates information from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917. References to psalms follow the numbering system of the Sep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Renaissance Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Renaissance Music - Middle Renaissance Music 1467 - 1534
Towards the end of the 15th century, polyphonic sacred music (as exemplified in the masses of Johannes Ockeghem and Jacob Obrecht) had on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Martin Kraus: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Martin Kraus - Legacy
Bertil van Boer divides Kraus's sacred music into two periods. The first, from 1768 to 1777, comprises Kraus's music written as a Roman C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Encyclopedia Ii - Bartolomeo Tromboncino - Music And Influence
In spite of his stormy, erratic, and possibly criminal life, much of his music is in the light current form of the frottola, a predecesso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Native American Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Native American Music - Pan-tribalism
Pan-tribalism is the syncretic adoption of traditions from foreign communities. Since the rise of the United States and Canada, Native Am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Early Medieval Music -1150
Medieval music - Early chant traditions. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Early Medieval Music -1150
Medieval music - Early chant traditions. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Poulenc: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Poulenc - Music
Shown in his diverse musical output, a multitude of influences is one of the distinguishing features of Poulenc's music. Among his format...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Gabrieli: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Gabrieli - Music And Style
Though Gabrieli composed in many of the forms current at the time, he clearly preferred sacred vocal and instrumental music. All of his s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giulio Belli: Encyclopedia Ii - Giulio Belli - Music And Influence
Belli's output of sacred music was impressive. He wrote numerous masses, many with basso continuo, showing his familiarity with contempor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaspar Van Weerbeke: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaspar Van Weerbeke - Music
Weerbeke combined the styles of the Italians with some of the older techniques of the Burgundians. He was almost alone among the Franco-F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Music - Medieval Period
Two concepts must be understood to appreciate fully the function of music in Byzantine worship. The first, which retained currency in Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Music - The Extent Of Byzantine Music Culture Vs. Liturgical Chant Proper
The term Byzantine music is commonly associated with what should more correctly be termed the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Music - Buddhist Chant
Buddhist chant is chant used in or inspired by Buddhism, including many genres in many cultures: Repetition of the name of Amitabha in P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolas Gombert: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolas Gombert - Music And Style
Gombert is perhaps the most representative composer of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina, especially in the area of sacred mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Croce: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Croce - Music And Influence
Croce wrote less music in the grand polychoral style than Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and as a result his music has not maintained the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacquet Of Mantua: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacquet Of Mantua - Music
Jacquet wrote almost exclusively sacred vocal music. He was attentive to the trends of the time, and his music shows a clear stylistic pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Music - Hymns
Main article: Hymn The tradition of Christian hymns in the English language is closely tied to Protestantism. Protestant hymns can range ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music History Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Music History Of The United States - Popular Music
Main article: American popular music The first field of American music that could be viewed as popular, rather than classical or folk, wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johannes Brassart: Encyclopedia Ii - Johannes Brassart - Music And Influence
Survival of music from this age is spotty, and many sources of music from Liège were destroyed when Charles the Bold sacked the city in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giacomo Antonio Perti: Encyclopedia Ii - Giacomo Antonio Perti - Works
Perti was highly regarded for his sacred music and his operas. Of the operas, few remain of the original 26. Perti claimed in his corresp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Rutter: Encyclopedia Ii - John Rutter - Influences
Rutter's music is eclectic, showing the influences of the French and English choral traditions of the early 20th century, as well as of l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luca Marenzio: Encyclopedia Ii - Luca Marenzio - Music
While Marenzio wrote some sacred music in the form of motets, and madrigali spirituali (madrigals based on religious texts), the vast maj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippe De Monte: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippe De Monte - Music And Influence
Monte was a hugely prolific composer, and wrote both sacred and secular music, all of it vocal. He wrote about 40 masses and about 260 ot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bernardo Pisano: Encyclopedia Ii - Bernardo Pisano - Music And Influence
While Pisano wrote sacred music in a sober, homophonic style, almost certainly for use in Ss Annunziata when he was maestro di cappella t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Gabrieli: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Gabrieli - Works
Gabrieli was a prolific and versatile composer, and wrote a large amount of music, including sacred and secular vocal music, music for mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antoine Busnois: Encyclopedia Ii - Antoine Busnois - Works And Style
The contemporary reputation of Busnois was immense; he was the probably the best-known musician in Europe between the time of Guillaume D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gilles Joye: Encyclopedia Ii - Gilles Joye - Music
All of Joye's surviving music is vocal and secular, and for three voices only. Four of his works are rondeaux, in French (though the text...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stefano Landi: Encyclopedia Ii - Stefano Landi - Music And Influence
Curiously, Landi's secular music is more conservative than most of his sacred music, and his first book of madrigals, for five voices and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kryštof Harant: Encyclopedia Ii - Kryštof Harant - Music And Influence
Harant's music was conservative, and in the style of the Netherlands composers of the previous generation. He used archaic techniques suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orazio Vecchi: Encyclopedia Ii - Orazio Vecchi - Music And Influence
Vecchi was renowned for his madrigals, especially his grouping of them together in a new form called the "madrigal comedy." This was a li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alex Grey: Encyclopedia Ii - Alex Grey - Paintings
His paintings can be described as an unusual contemporary blend of sacred or visionary art and postmodern art. His work often depicts asp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solemn Mass: Encyclopedia Ii - Solemn Mass - Vestments
For a complete description, see the article entitled Vestments of the Mass. In the sacristy, before vesting, all three sacred ministers (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Costanzo Porta: Encyclopedia Ii - Costanzo Porta - Style
Most of Porta's output is sacred music, especially motets. He published at least eight books of motets, one of which is lost, as well as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giacomo Puccini: Encyclopedia Ii - Giacomo Puccini - Music
Though Puccini is mainly known for his operas, he also wrote some orchestral pieces, sacred music, chamber music and songs for voice and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Juan Pujol: Encyclopedia Ii - Juan Pujol - Music
Pujol wrote much of his music for the patron saint of Catalonia, St. George, and most of his compositions are based on Gregorian chant. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Da Gagliano: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Da Gagliano - Music And Influence
Gagliano wrote an enormous quantity of music, both sacred and secular, for the Medici, and in addition he was a singer and instrumentalis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sama Veda: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Sama Veda
Sama Veda One of the four Vedas, the original revealed scriptures. It contains sacred musical compositions based mostly on the hymns o...   » Read the article