This research looks at contemporary understandings of performance arts in India, specifically Karnatic Music and Bharatnatyam as ‘religious’ arts. Historically, music and dance were performed and patronized in royal courts and temples. In the early 20th century, increased nationalist activities led to various forms of self-scrutiny about what represented ‘true’ Indian culture. By appropriating colonial discourses based on the religious/secular dichotomy, Karnatic Music was carefully constructed to represent a ‘pure’ Indian, specifically ‘Hindu’ culture that was superior to the ‘materialistic’ Western culture. Importantly, the category called divine was re-constructed and distinguished from the erotic: the divine was represented as a category that was sacred whilst the erotic represented ‘sexual impropriety.’ In so doing, performance arts in the public sphere became explicitly gendered. Feminity and masculinity were re-defined: the female body was re-imagined as ‘sexual impropriety’ when in the public sphere, but when disembodied in the private sphere could be deified as a guardian of spirituality. Traditional performing communities were marginalized while the newly defined music and dance was appropriated by the Brahmin community, who assumed the role of guardians of the newly constructed Indian-Hindu identity, resulting in caste-based ‘ownership’ of performance arts. Mechanical reproduction of Karnatic Music has created a disconnect in contemporary Indian society, in which Karnatic Music is disembodied from its contexts in order to be commodified as an individual’s artistic expression of creativity. This move marks a shift from substantive economics (music was performed and experienced within a specific context, be it royal patronage or Indian nationalist movements) to formal economics (music as a performer’s creative property). I question the understanding of Karnatic Music as ‘religious’ music that is distinguished from the ‘secular’ and seek to understand the colonial patriarchal mystification of the female body in the private sphere by deconstructing the definition of the ‘divine.’ In doing so, I also question the contemporary understanding of Karnatic Music as an item of property that disembodies the music from its historical context.

The dissertation concerns the use of modern music during liturgy. The first chapter is devoted to a music mentioned in the Bible. Church documents about the music in liturgy are investigated in the second and third chapter. Fourth chapter describes musical instruments and their use. Fifth chapter brings knowledge about modern scared music in Czech countries from beginning till today. Sixth chapter describes particular genres of modern sacred music. The specification of genres begins with spirituals and gospel music. These songs are traditional sacred music from Africa and America. The chapter continues with church jazz and rock. These genres originate from traditional sacred music. The next is church folk and songs from Taizé. Sixth chapter ends with music with electronic instruments. Seventh chapter describes hymn-books from totalitarianism till the present. The dissertation closes with eighth chapter with the tittle Prognosis in the future which is about modern sacred music in future.

This dissertation examines the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music and the historical and cultural milieu of which it is a part. Held annually since 1994 in the city of Fes, Morocco, this festival was first launched in the wake of the first Gulf War as an interfaith initiative and was conceived with a European and American audience in mind. It was later housed under the aegis of FES-SAISS, an NGO based in the medina of Fes, Morocco. Over time, the festival became both more local and more global, with local residents using the global rhetoric of western democratic ideals and human rights discourses as a way to shape the festival’s local programming. After 9/11 and the May 16, 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca, the festival took on a new significance as Moroccans began to think of the festival as an event that would counter its own domestic extremism. This dissertation looks at the role of sound and music and its place in This dissertation examines the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music and the historical and cultural milieu of which it is a part. Held annually since 1994 in the city of Fes, Morocco, this festival was first launched in the wake of the first Gulf War as an interfaith initiative and was conceived with a European and American audience in mind. It was later housed under the aegis of FES-SAISS, an NGO based in the medina of Fes, Morocco. Over time, the festival became both more local and more global, with local residents using the global rhetoric of western democratic ideals and human rights discourses as a way to shape the festival’s local programming. After 9/11 and the May 16, 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca, the festival took on a new significance as Moroccans began to think of the festival as an event that would counter its own domestic extremism. This dissertation looks at the role of sound and music and its place in This dissertation examines the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music and the historical and cultural milieu of which it is a part. Held annually since 1994 in the city of Fes, Morocco, this festival was first launched in the wake of the first Gulf War as an interfaith initiative and was conceived with a European and American audience in mind. It was later housed under the aegis of FES-SAISS, an NGO based in the medina of Fes, Morocco. Over time, the festival became both more local and more global, with local residents using the global rhetoric of western democratic ideals and human rights discourses as a way to shape the festival’s local programming. After 9/11 and the May 16, 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca, the festival took on a new significance as Moroccans began to think of the festival as an event that would counter its own domestic extremism. This dissertation looks at the role of sound and music and its place in viii Moroccan spiritual traditions and questions how a local religious musical aesthetic produced by the festival impacts interfaith efforts beyond Morocco’s borders as well as local Moroccan conceptions of spirituality. Important components in the shaping of conceptions of spirituality are interactions in the sphere of tourism, and local and international efforts at historic preservation, and in the history of how local musics became world music. Perhaps more than ever before, the preservation of local histories and traditions are co-constructed at a global rather than a local level, where global spheres are new grounds for creating local meaning. In conclusion, this dissertation considers the nature and scope of the impact this festival has as it travels around the globe. / text

This narrative chronicles the dissemination of sacred music from the eastern seaboard to the West and South spanning a time frame from the colonial era to the latter part of the Early Nationalist Period (1700-1820). Musical culture in its migration away from the eastern seaboard also parallels the greater western and southern expansion of the United States from its initial configuration of localized regional subgroups to the beginnings of a larger national identity. From this conceptual base, sacred music becomes a vehicle for understanding not only religious and musical changes over time, but also the broader maturity of a nation. Focusing on this period allows for inquiries both into the development of hymnody in the Middle Atlantic, and the subsequent developments of the West and South. These chronological delimitations allow for a discussion of musical practice beginning with formative sacred music developments and continuing to the incorporation of techniques shaped by reform-minded musicians from the eastern seaboard. The following topics guided the construction of this thesis: explicating how the Middle Atlantic region shaped compositional trends, aesthetic, and performance practice of the American West and South; identifying the various southern cultures as understood by eighteenth and nineteenth-century southerners and their application to sacred music practice; understanding how nineteenth-century Americans distinguished between the West and the South; understanding how southern and western music relates to individual denominations and cultures within these areas; and understanding performance practice common to the evangelical and non-evangelical branches of individual sects. Identifying patterns of development in American sacred music of the South and West involves documentation of performance practice, denominational aesthetics, and tunebook bibliography. The study of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century material by twentieth-and-twenty-first-century writers has falsely defined cultural borders of this region according to a post-bellum conceptualization of the boundaries of the North and South. Prior to 1850, writers defined their borders according to a different set of geographic boundaries than today. Consequently, this thesis differs in terms of geographic and cultural definitions of the North and South from current scholarship because of this writer’s application of colonial and Early Nationalist understandings of American culture.

Though perhaps we shall never know the music to which these religious lyrics were written, the poems have never ceased to be the source of inspiration for the spirits of men since they were first sung. Each psalm seems to have an underlying purpose with a personal message for each reader. In the Book one can find a reply to every sort of question, for the Psalms are filled with expressions of emotion brought about by all human experience. The collection of these 150 songs or psalms makes up what is known as the Hebrew hymn-book or the Book of Psalms.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-08T12:08:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Waldir Pereira da Silva.pdf: 2301983 bytes, checksum: e13d2f0f4afc295a806a3212d15baf88 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-08T12:08:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Waldir Pereira da Silva.pdf: 2301983 bytes, checksum: e13d2f0f4afc295a806a3212d15baf88 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-16 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais / The present work investigates aspects related to the use of sacred music in the liturgy of the cults of historic Baptist and Presbyterian churches in the city of Montes Claros - MG. The specific objective is to check the current reality of musical activities in these churches, identifying the conceptions and practices that underpin their cultic musical activities. This is an emerging theme that needs of more systematic studies that allow understand the musical activities in the referred churches, from the action of pastors, and "praise ministries" and where are founded their cultic musical practices. It is relevant cast a critical eye on the reality of musical activities of these churches, and that allows knowing the reality of other historic churches in the field of cultic music. It is understood that this proposed of study suits the prospects of scientific production at present and covers problems and specific situations of socio-cultural and political contexts of the studied churches. The working hypothesis was: the process of musical Pentecostalization disliturgied the sacred music used in cults of the historical Protestant churches by influence of gospel musical market. The research universe consists of two historic Baptist churches and two Presbyterian churches, and the research was divided into two phases: on the first, it was held an initial survey of how many Baptist and Presbyterian historic churches exist in Montes Claros, and made up the choose of four of them to carry out the fieldwork research. In the second phase, priority was given to the particular reality of each church selected, with respect to their musical activities. The work was developed from bibliographical research, documentary research, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, participant observation, photographic records and in audio and video of the cultic musical activities in each one of the four selected churches. The obtained results point to a supremacy of using of the called gospel music in relation to official hymnody of each denomination, the print media being replaced by electronic media and significant changes in cultic liturgy of each church / O presente trabalho se propõe a investigar aspectos relacionados à utilização da música sacra na liturgia dos cultos das igrejas batistas e presbiterianas históricas na cidade de Montes Claros – MG. O objetivo específico é verificar a atual realidade das atividades musicais nessas igrejas, identificando as concepções e as práticas que alicerçam suas atividades musicais cúlticas. Esse é um tema emergente que carece de mais estudos sistemáticos, os quais possibilitem compreendê-lo para se discutir as perspectivas acerca das atividades musicais nas referidas igrejas, a partir da atuação dos pastores, e dos “ministérios de louvor” para se entender em qual ponto se alicerça e se constitui na base de suas práticas musicais cúlticas. Compreende-se que será de grande relevância, nesse sentido, lançar um olhar crítico sobre a realidade das atividades musicais dessas igrejas, o que também possibilitará se conhecer a realidade das atividades musicais das demais igrejas históricas. Assim, entende-se que esta proposta de estudo adéqua-se às perspectivas da produção científica na atualidade, sendo capaz de abranger problemas e situações específicas dos contextos sociocultural e político nos quais se está inserido. Nesse contexto, a hipótese levantada foi: o processo de pentecostalização musical des-liturgizou a música sacra utilizada nos cultos das igrejas históricas em função do mercado musical gospel. O universo da pesquisa é constituído de duas igrejas batistas históricas e de duas igrejas presbiterianas históricas, e a pesquisa será dividida em duas fases: Na primeira, o trabalho constará de um levantamento inicial de quantas igrejas batistas e presbiterianas históricas existem em Montes Claros, com a escolha de quatro igrejas para a realização da pesquisa de campo. Na segunda fase, dar-se-á enfoque qualitativo à realidade particular de cada igreja, no que diz respeito às suas atividades musicais, selecionando uma amostragem que, delimitada quantitativamente, contemple igrejas centrais e de diferentes bairros, apontados a partir do levantamento inicial. O trabalho será desenvolvido a partir da pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, entrevistas semiestruturadas, aplicação de questionários, observação participante, registros fotográficos e em áudio e vídeo das atividades musicais cúlticas em cada igreja. Os resultados obtidos apontam para uma supremacia da utilização da música gospel em relação a hinódia oficial de cada denominação, a mídia impressa sendo substituída pela mídia eletrônica e modificações significativas na liturgia cúltica de cada igreja, entre a tradição e a inovação

Melodram für Sprecher und Orgel. Text: Dietrich Mendt, Musik: Matthias Drude

Melodram für Sprecher und Orgel; Musik: Matthias Drude (2005); Text: Dietrich Mendt

Melodram für Sprecher und Orgel, Musik: Matthias Drude (2005), Text: Dietrich Mendt; Informationen zum Komponisten: www.drude.info

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-192).