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Free Download Manuscripts and medieval song : inscription, performance, context By Deeming, Helen; Leach, Elizabeth Eva
2015 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 1107062632 | PDF | 7 MB
The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of ‘songbook’ easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place songs alongside other diverse contents, and the songs themselves may be inscribed as texts alone or as verbal and musical notation. This book looks afresh at these manuscripts through ten case studies, representing key sources in Latin, French, German, and English from across Europe during the Middle Ages. Each chapter is authored by a leading expert and treats a case study in detail, including a listing of the manuscript’s overall contents, a summary of its treatment in scholarship, and up-to-date bibliographical references. Drawing on recent scholarly methodologies, the contributors uncover what these books and the songs within them meant to their medieval audience and reveal a wealth of new information about the original contexts of songs both in performance and as committed to parchment

Free Download Kao Kalia Yang, "The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father"
English | 2017 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 125013188X, 1627794948 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction

Free Download John Potter, Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator), "Song: A History in 12 Parts"
English | ASIN: B0CRM1SN29 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:49:00 | 335 MB
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Björk
"Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs as anyone else. My choices are based on decades of performing experience in many different genres, but I hope they will reveal aspects of our common humanity as the story evolves from the Middle Ages to the present."
In this celebratory account, author and singer John Potter tells the European story of song. The form has captivated audiences and excited performers for centuries, from the music of the troubadours and the Christian liturgy through classical composers such as Bach and Schumann up to Britten, Berio, and the rise of popular music.

Free Download Susan Evans McCloud, "Voices from the Dust: A Song of Beginnings"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 157008226X | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.9 mb
The saga of Neferure, a woman whose courageous spirit and indomitable will must sustain her as her people struggle to establish a new land. Torn between Shemnon, whom she has loved since childhood, and Himni, who is of her faith, she comes to learn the power challenges have to strengthen or to destroy. Faith, love, loss, and joy is the gospel are all elements of this epic tale that captures the emotions and dramas of the Book of Mormon peoples and events.

Free Download The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
by Janet Shirley
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138451657 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB

Free Download Chloe T. Sun, "Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies in the Song of Songs and Esther"
English | ISBN: 0830854886 | 2021 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 21 MB
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist

Free Download K. Meira Goldberg, "The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance"
English | ISBN: 1443899631 | 2016 | 700 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise genres as diverse as the Mexican son jarocho, the salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti, and the Andalusian fandangos central to flamenco. From the celebrations of humble folk to the theaters of the European elite, with boisterous castanets, strumming strings, flirtatious sensuality, and dexterous footwork, the fandango became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance, and people of diverse Spanish, Afro-Latin, Gitano, and even Amerindian origins. Once a symbol of Spanish Empire, it came to signify freedom of movement and of expression, given powerful new voice in the twenty-first century by Mexican immigrant communities. What is the full array of the fandango? The superb essays gathered in this collection lay the foundational stone for further exploration.

Free Download Marcello Di Cintio, "Song of the Caged Bird: Words as Resistance in Palestine"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00GVZVAIO | EPUB | pages: 47 | 2.2 mb
For political readers and anyone invested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Marcello Di Cintio’s Song of the Caged Bird is a refreshing look at Palestinian resistance-through literature and the power of books.

Free Download Singing My Him Song by Malachy McCourt
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0060955481 | 264 Pages | PDF | 3.4 MB
Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of A Monk Swimming, shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years.

Free Download The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash (Audiobook)
English | January 19, 2019 | ASIN: B07MVMHXRJ | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 55m | 333 MB
Author: John M. Alexander | Narrator: Chaz Allen
There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash’s incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying Cash’s music and life, from his difficult depression-era Arkansas childhood through his death in 2003, to tell a life story through songs familiar and obscure. In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose to record it, Alexander introduces listeners anew to a man whose primary consideration of any song was the difference music makes in people’s lives, and not whether the song would become a hit.
The hits came, of course. Johnny Cash sold more than 50 million albums in 40 years. The Man in Song connects treasured songs to an incredible life. It explores the intertwined experience and creativity of childhood trauma. It rifles through the discography of a life: Cash’s work with the Tennessee Two at Sam Phillips’s Sun Studios, the unique concept albums Cash recorded for Columbia Records, the spiritual songs, the albums recorded live at prisons, songs about the love of his life, June Carter Cash, songs about murder and death and addiction, songs about ramblers, and even silly songs.