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This book is the first-ever study of Malta's major eighteenth-century composer, Benigno Zerafa (1726-1804), a specialist in sacred music composition. Zerafa's large-scale and small-scale vocal and choral works, mostly written during his long service as musical director at the Cathedral of Mdina, have been winning increased recognition in recent years. In addition to describing and analysing this extensive corpus, the book gives an account of Zerafa's sometimes eventful career against the wider background of the rich musical and cultural life in Malta, especial attention being paid to its strong links with Italy, and particularly Naples, where Zerafa was a student for six years. It examines in detail the complex relationship of music to Catholic liturgy and investigates the distinctive characteristics of the musical style, intermediate between baroque and classical, in which Zerafa was trained and always composed: one that today is commonly labelled 'galant'.
Well stocked with music examples, the book makes copious reference to Italian and Maltese composers from Zerafa's time and to modern analytical studies of Italian music from the middle decades of the eighteenth century, thereby offering a useful general commentary on the galant period. Its central aim, however, is to stimulate further interest in, and revival of, Zerafa's music. To this end the book contains a complete work-list with supplementary indexes. Scholars and students of eighteenth-century music, in particular sacred music, the galant style and Italian music, will find it invaluable.

FREDERICK AQUILINA is Senior Lecturer in Music Studies at the University of Malta.

Composers --- Sacred music --- Compositeurs --- Musique religieuse --- Biography --- Biographies --- Zerafa, Benigno, --- Sacred music. --- Religious music --- Worship music --- Music --- Songwriters --- Musicians

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Sacred music --- History and criticism. --- Religious music --- Worship music --- Music --- History and criticism --- Abtei Reichenau. --- Kloster Reichenau --- Reichenau (Abbey) --- 78.23 --- Sacred music - Germany - Reichenau (Baden-Wurttemberg) - 500-1400 - History and criticism.

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Through Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish music-making this cultural history illuminates a multi-ethnic Ottoman art world and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores cross-cultural flows often left out of histories focusing on Jewish communities in isolation, top-down political events, or national narratives. The genre under study, Maftirim music, is a paraliturgical sacred suite developing since the seventeenth century along with Ottoman court music.

Synagogue music --- Jews --- Sacred music --- Religious music --- Worship music --- Music --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish liturgical music --- Jewish religious music --- Jewish sacred music --- Jewish sacred vocal music --- History and criticism. --- Liturgy --- Jewish religion --- History of civilization --- anno 1900-1999 --- Istanbul [city]

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In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years A.D.. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long-lasting impact on musicology, religious studies, and history.

Mass (Music) --- Propers (Music) --- Gregorian chants --- Church music --- Propers of the Mass (Music) --- Masses --- Lord's Supper (Liturgy) --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church. --- Catholic Church --- History and criticism --- 78.033 --- 78.033 Muziek--?.033 --- Muziek--?.033 --- alleluia. --- ancient world. --- augustine. --- benedictine chants. --- bible. --- chants. --- christian chant. --- christianity. --- church history. --- cloister. --- early church. --- gregorian chants. --- history. --- hymn. --- liturgy. --- medieval. --- monasticism. --- monks. --- music history. --- music. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- piety. --- poetry. --- religion. --- religious communities. --- religious isolation. --- religious music. --- religious practices. --- religious studies. --- spirituality. --- worship music. --- worship.

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Le Concile Vatican Il a défini la musique sacrée en tant que fonction ministérielle (munus ministeriale) dans la liturgie. Cette appellation sans précédent ouvre de vastes horizons sur la place de la musique sacrée dans le lieu propre du questionnement théologique bien qu'encore peu explorés. Expression sonore de l'Eglise là où l'indicible est irréductible au langage, la musique liturgique s'inscrit dans une anthropologie du rite. Au service de la communauté, elle en renforce la cohésion et exprime ce qui s'y vit, elle signifie la fête en opérant une rupture avec le quotidien. Les défis soulevés sont de taille, ne serait-ce que pour se garder de l'écueil d'une recherche d'esthétisme pur, faux chemin vers Dieu, ou quand l'acte de foi n'est plus un préalable et la tension eschatologique occultée. Porte d'entrée pour repenser la place de la musique sacrée dans la liturgie chrétienne, l'expression conciliaire permet d'interroger sous un jour nouveau le rapport de l'homme à la musique dans sa relation à Dieu et la participation de cette dernière à l'épiphanie du mystère de l'Eglise. Cet essai est notamment enrichi d'une considérable bibliographie offrant une vue d'ensemble de la question musicale dans le christianisme.

Sacred music --- Music --- Church music --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Catholic Church --- Liturgy. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Religious music --- Worship music --- History and criticism --- 246.8 --- 246.8 Religieuze muziek --- Religieuze muziek --- Liturgie --- Kerkmuziek --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Religious aspects