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Many of the earliest parlour songs were transcriptions for voice and keyboard of other music. Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, for instance, were traditional (or "folk") tunes supplied with new lyrics by Moore, and many arias from Italian operas, particularly those of Bellini and Donizetti, became parlour songs, with texts either translated or replaced by new lyrics.
It is a minstrel song, written in African American Vernacular English, spoken by slaves, and intended to be performed by blackface troupes. Work was an avowed abolitionist and composed numerous pro- Union songs during the Civil War such as " Marching Through Georgia " (1865) and "Babylon is Fallen" (1863)—the sequel to "Kingdom Coming".
This category contains songs that are Parlor music or Parlour music. Pages in category "Parlor songs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 1) is the first chapter of the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon", a book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book is one of the Five Megillot , a group of short books, together with Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the ...
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
Young People's Luther League Convention Song Book [331] [332] The Parish School Hymnal (1926) [333] [334] The Primary Hymn Book, Hymns and Songs for Little Children (1936) [335] United Lutheran Church in America. Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church with Hymnal (1917) [286] Hymnal for the Sunday School (1922) [336]
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."
In 1928 Songs of Praise to Jehovah was released, [20] which included 337 songs. [21] Following the adoption of the name “Jehovah's witnesses” in 1931, the Kingdom Service Song Book was released in 1944 (and revised in 1948), which included 62 songs. This was followed by the release of Songs to Jehovah's Praise in 1950, with 91