Includes hymnody from medieval plain chant to the early twentieth-century classics. This work includes hymns that are grouped according to theme and contains material suitable for any festival or occasion in the life of a church.

Thomas Schuttenhelm's book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett's creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.

Stravinsky's ballet score for The Firebird launched his career as a composer after its Paris premiere in 1910. Although he extracted an orchestral suite the following year, the large orchestra required limited performances in the concert hall. World War I, the Russian Revolution and a move to Switzerland intervened before he was able to arrange a suitable concert suite for a normal-sized orchestra, which was given its premiere by Ernest Ansermet and the newly founded Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in April of 1919. Offered here is the first definitive newly engraved publication of the concert-hall staple in the near-century since its first publication by Chester in 1920 - in a notoriously error-heavy edition. Thoroughly researched and edited by Clark McAlister and Clinton F. Nieweg, this new study score will be a most welcome addition to the libraries of conductors, music students and fans of the great Russian master's music everywhere.

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the greatest English composers. He studied under such teachers as Parry, Charles Wood, and Alan Gray, and later in Germany with Max Bruch and in France with Ravel, developing a strongly individual style that marked him out, with Holst and others, as one of theleaders of the twentieth-century revival of English music. He never hesitated to express his views in plain, vigorous prose, and he became well-known for his essays which combine typical common sense with a true composer's sensitivity. This collection contains all his writings that he thought worth preserving in book form. The themes and subjects discussed in these essays reflect his wide range of interests and cover such topics as nationalism in music, the evolution of folk-song, and the origins of music, as well as pieces on individual composers such as Beethoven, Gustav Holst, Bach, Sibelius, Arnold Bax, andElgar. Also included are more general reflections of the making of music, its purpose and effects, and the social foundations of music.

This collection of beautiful piano pieces provides a unique way for pianists to reach a state of mindfulness by sharpening their musical focus towards their internal and external experiences within the present moment. With the help of Einaudi, Debussy, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, and Satie, as well as music-themed images to color in, this aid to simple meditation is the perfect musical remedy in an increasingly frantic and pressurized world. Titles: Ambre (Frahm) * Arioso (BMV 156) (J. S. Bach) * Der Dichter Spricht (Schumann) * Earnestly Yours (Henson) * Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) * Gnossienne, No. 1 (Satie) * I Giorni (Einaudi) * Lento (Scriabin) * Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) * Morning Prayer (Tchaikovsky) * Pavane, Op. 50 (Fauré) * Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel) * Prelude in E Minor (Chopin) * Rêverie (Debussy) * Romanze (Mozart) * Shackleton's Cross (Goodall) * Snowflakes (Glennie) * To a Wild Rose (MacDowell) * Une larme (Mussorgsky) * Winter (Slow Movement) (Vivaldi).

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).