early poetry was composed of prose-like chants without rhyme or rigid rules for metrical accented syllables. The richly poetic language in the Old Testament followed the rhetorical patterns of ancient Hebrew. Translated into English, theSong of Songs(also calledCanticle of CanticlesorSong ...
It’s a genre of music that’s had a strong run over the last few years both in the USA and in the UK. Drill songs first started getting traction in the early 2010s in Chicago, where they were known as Chicago Drill. However, the US didn’t have a monopoly on the idea. UK ...
They almost had to take him to the emergency room but he got better, then he did it again. The cleaning women who clean the house two doors down shriek like banshees whenever they get out of the car and run madly to the house trying to avoid them like bullets. Like the screaming girl...
They performed masterfully. We finished our three songs, and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs, “YOU DID IT!” But the most difficult task remained—sight-reading. We were given a short time to look o...
was crushed, of course. I loved singing to him. But I honored his request. I stopped singing, broke out my Gilbert and Sullivan tapes, and set out to introduce him to music that did NOT “hurt his ears.” We played Gilbert and Sullivan, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven and German folksongs....
Either of these versions might work if our only goal is to sing a silly song a la “The House that Jack Built,” or “The Green Grass Grew All Around and Around.” But it still felt a little wrong, and the whole project got me thinking that I really didn’t know—or at least co...
Well i watched him as the songs were sung that night. And at one point I was amazed. His face lit up, his eyes seem to shine. There was a smile, and joy like I never really knew. That inspiration has stayed with me my entire life. When I sing in Church some say, I sing so ...
“theology of place,” based on Paul’s sermon recorded in Acts 17:From one man God made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps...
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Songs of Praise 12 In that day you will say: “I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me,your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid.The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense[ae...