The world's most famous hymn book has undergone a complete revision and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and the best from today's composers and hymn/song writers. 150 years since its first publication and after sales of 170 million copies, this brand new edition ...
Explore the world's most famous hymn book using the Hymns Ancient & Modern app. - Words for over 840 hymns and songs from Ancient & Modern (2013) - Find hymns by number, first line, author or composer - Browse the collection by theme, Bible reference or Church calendar ...
THE Church of Scotland today has signed an agreement with Hymns Ancient and Modern for the outsourcing of the Church’s book publishing imprint – Saint Andrew Press. Begins a spokesperson: “Under this agreement, Saint Andrew Press will continue to publish a broad range of high-quality...
Throughout the period (starting from Ancient, Medieval, and Modern), every society has developed over a long period of time; however, they differ in terms of courses they followed and the processes they underwent. The primitives experienced stone-age, hunter-gatherers and they all practiced agric...
(109) of the 168 figurines were deities; all were female and Venus was by far the most common (85) however there were two Luna/Diana figurines and one Juno. The Luna/Diana figurines were found below modern day Leadenhall Street and Bond Court - they are unique as only one other similar...
and transformed by Arion into a choral hymn. Arion is also credited with separating the solo part of the coryphaeus from the chorus. All of this served as the basis for the creation of Attic tragedy, which united drama, music, and other art forms. The tragedians, like the lyric poets,...
and harmonies and bass lines were added to traditional songs. One example isThe East Is Red,a folksong from northern Shaanxi which was adapted into a nationalist hymn. Of particular note is the composer, Xian Xinghai, who was active during this period, and composed theYellow River Cantatawhich...
Characteristic of ancient Greek philosophy and distinguishing it from medieval and modern European philosophy, was its cosmologic approach. The Greek philosophical schools were free associations in which like-minded persons, or students, gathered around the head of the school. The first of such schools...
Well, the earliest reference to this canon of spiritual beings comes from theHymn of Fiacc, recorded in medieval manuscripts whose form of Old Irish is said to date them to between the 7th and 8thC CE.Fiaccwas supposed to have been one of Patrick’s original 5thC CE apostles and the ...
Yossi MaureyAncient Music in the Modern Classroom1The French musicologist Jacques Chailley devoted his professional career to therevival of medieval music and ancient theater and to the study of Greek music. Ofhis numerous publications, a book he originally penned in French in 1961 standsout for ...