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In German, the word Choral may as well refer to Protestant congregational singing as to other forms of vocal (church) music, including Gregorian chant. [1] The English word which derived from this German term, that is chorale, however almost exclusively refers to the musical forms that originated in the German Reformation.
Zerihun Yetmgeta (born 1941) is an Ethiopian artist. His paintings and mixed media pieces combine elements of contemporary art with traditional forms of Ethiopia, particularly from the icons and scrolls of Ethiopian Orthodox art.
Zeritu Kebede [1] was born in Addis Ababa on 19 February 1984. [2] [3] Her father, Kebede Woldegiorgis, was an architect, and her mother, Engida Mitiku, was a housewife who was thirty years younger than her husband.
Girma Bèyènè (Amharic: ግርማ በየነ), born in Addis Ababa, is an Ethiopian lyricist, composer, arranger, vocalist, and pianist, most active during the golden era of Ethiopian vinyl records (1969–78).
Aracelis Girmay (born December 10, 1977) [1] is an American poet. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Kingdom Animalia (2011), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. She is also an assistant professor of poetry at Hampshire College.
Perhaps the most notable early English Protestant composer was Issac Watts, known as the “Father of English Hymnody". [46] Watts broke with the popular Calvinist theology of the time by altering his arrangements of the Psalms to better reflect Christian elements found only in the New Testament , as is evident by the title of his work, The ...
Ethiopian liturgical chant, or Zema, is a form of Christian liturgical chant practiced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. [1] [2] The related musical notation is known as melekket. [3]
Berhanu Zerihun (Amharic: ብርሃኑ ዘሪሁን; 1933-34 – 24 April 1987) was an Ethiopian writer in Amharic and journalist, noted for his clear and crisp writing style, which contrasted against the more complex writing style popular in his time.