The Lord's song sings faith into people's hearts. Music is central to the life of the church. In Church Music: For the Care of Souls, Phillip Magness helps the church to recover the primary instrument in worship: congregational voices. With voices raised, we sing praises to our God and King for his Son Jesus Christ. Singing calls for a special kind of leadership—not only on the part of musicians, but also among pastors and lay leaders. Together, leaders can help congregations find their voice and reclaim the power of music for the care of souls.
The story of the impactful partnership between humans and mockingbirds, both scientifically and culturally over the centuries, written for young adults by award-winning nonfiction powerhouse Phil Hoose. The Northern mockingbird’s brilliant song—a loud, bright, liquid sampling of musical notes and phrases—has made it a beloved companion and the official bird of five states. Many of our favorite songs and poems feature mockingbirds. Mockingbirds have been companions to humans for centuries. Many Native American myths and legends feature mockingbirds, often teaching humans to speak. Thomas Jefferson’s mockingbird, “Dick”, was the first White House pet. John James Audubon’s portrait of a rattlesnake raiding a mockingbird’s nest sparked outrage in the world of art. Atticus Finch’s somber warning to his children, “Remember, it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird,” is known throughout the world. Some jazz musicians credit mockingbirds with teaching them a four-note call that says, “Break’s over.” And mockingjays—a hybrid between jabberjays and mockers—are a symbol of the rebel cause in the Hunger Games trilogy. But in the early 1900s the mocker was plummeting toward extinction. Too many had been trapped, sold, and caged. Something had to be done. To the rescue came a powerful and determined group of women. Now, National Book Award and Newbery honor-winner Phillip Hoose brings the story of the important and overlooked connection between humans and mockingbirds—past, present, and future. It is the third volume of his bird trilogy. Duet is a study in the power of song. As author Steve Sheinkin puts it, “This book will change how you listen to the world.”
(Beginning Piano Solo Songbook). 24 excellent arrangements for beginning pianists of Sunday School classics. Songs include: All Things Bright and Beautiful * Arky, Arky * The B-I-B-L-E * Come into His Presence (Singing Alleluia) * Deep and Wide * Do Lord * Down in My Heart * Give Me Oil in My Lamp * God Is So Good * The Gospel Train * Hallelu, Hallelujah! * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * His Banner over Me Is Love * I Will Sing of the Mercies * I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing * If You're Happy and You Know It * Jesus in the Morning * Jesus Loves Me * Jesus Loves the Little Children * Joshua (Fit the Battle of Jericho) * Praise Him, All Ye Little Children * Tell Me the Story of Jesus * This Little Light of Mine * What a Mighty God We Serve.
(Piano Solo Songbook). 15 contemporary Christmas classics masterfully arranged for classical piano by Phillip Keveren. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Caroling, Caroling * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * The Christmas Waltz * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Jingle Bell Rock * Merry Christmas, Darling * The Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silver Bells * Snowfall * Somewhere in My Memory * Where Are You Christmas? * White Christmas.
(Easy Piano Songbook). 15 timeless standards expertly arranged by Phillip Keveren for easy piano that will have you humming along and tapping your toes in no time! Includes: And I Love You So * Dream * Ebb Tide * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * Here's That Rainy Day * I Will Wait for You * In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning * Longer * My Cherie Amour * Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' * September Song * Somewhere, My Love * Strangers in the Night * Unchained Melody * Willow Weep for Me.
(Piano Solo Songbook). 15 Disney favorites arranged for classical piano: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Colors of the Wind * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * God Help the Outcasts * I'm Late * It's a Small World * Little April Shower * Once upon a Dream * Scales and Arpeggios * The Second Star to the Right * So This Is Love (The Cinderella Waltz) * Under the Sea * You'll Be in My Heart.
(Piano Solo Songbook). By popular demand, here are more Disney songs expertly arranged by Phillip Keveren within a classical context. Includes: Be Our Guest * Bella Notte * Feed the Birds * Heigh-Ho * Love Is a Song * Part of Your World * Ratatouille Main Theme * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * When You Wish upon a Star * A Whole New World * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and more.
(Piano Solo Songbook). 15 Highland tunes masterfully arranged by Phillip Keveren. Includes: Auld Lang Syne * Barbara Allen * The Blue Bells of Scotland * The Campbells Are Coming * Charlie Is My Darlin' * Comin' Through the Rye * A Highland Lad My Love Was Born * Hurree Hurroo * Loch Lomond * Mingulay Boat Song * O My Love Is like a Red, Red Rose * On the Banks of Allan Water * The Road to Dundee * Skye Boat Song * Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon.
A lifetime of experience created Harmonizing: Keys to Living in the Song of Life. From a young age author Phillip Gary Smith learned to win through losing, take risks, create action, and just DO! Harmonizing overflows with articles, critiques of popular media, tales, and happenings applicable to your situation -- showing how to engage life right now. Filled with recipes of life along with over 30 unpublished Southern recipes like Cadillac Banana Pudding, you will discover characters such as The Excuse King and Bubba Fatz. Participate in adventures like "The Day I Snowshoed for the Prickly Pear," and "The Year I Saw a Christmas Angel." Harmonizing introduces a major key to life: Path Print, the only known assessment of ones true motivations whose results provide a book about you. Learn the "Miracle of the President's Challenge," Discover the "101 Movies you can watch 1001 Times - and never be bored." Read "A Mother's Day Tale Like No Other." This and much, much more await the adventure called Harmonizing.
Invites the spirit of God to call you forth and lead you into the experience of the love you crave, the love that alone can satisfy. You will follow a path into the Song that reveals your own humanity and leads to the deepest delight of your soul.
(Beginning Piano Solo Songbook). 15 yuletide songs arranged in that special Phillip Keveren style for early-level players, including: Believe * The Chipmunk Song * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Frosty the Snow Man * God Bless Us Everyone * Hot Chocolate * Jingle Bell Rock * Little Saint Nick * My Favorite Things * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silver Bells * Sisters * Somewhere in My Memory * Where Are You Christmas?
(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part, as well as in the vocal line.
If you've been around as long as I have, you probably remember the songs of singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He grew up in South Philly, watching performances of Fats Domino and the Coasters on TV's American Bandstand. He looked like a tough guy, but everyone who knew him said he has a big, warm fun-loving heart. Jim Croce spent the first decade of his adult life toiling in a series of day jobs: teaching emotionally disturbed children, working in a hospital, driving trucks, operating a jackhammer at construction sites. At night, he would sing and play guitar in coffeehouses. He wasn't waiting for his big break- he was hustling for it. When he was twenty-nine, Jim Croce finally landed his first recording contract. His first album, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, was completed quickly, many of the songs being recorded in just one or two takes. Once the album was released, Croce's music, an acoustic blend of folk and rock, caught on fast. The first two singles released from that album quickly became number one hits on AM radio, and Jim Croce became a star. His long- delayed dream had finally come true. His first two hits were upbeat roack ballads. His record company decided to release a third song from the album-a soft plaintive song called "Time in a Bottle". It was about how precious each moment of life is and how quickly those moments pass, never to come again. The song wistfully recounted the things Croce would do if only he could keep time in a bottle and pour out extra hours whenever he needed them. Before "Time in a Bottle" could be released, Jim Croce proved that the words of that song were truer than he realized. On September 20, 1973, after performing in a concert at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Lousiana, Croce boarded a small chartered plane along with a flight crew and members of his band. The heavily loaded plane clipped a tree as it took off. Like Croce's career, the plane had barely gotten off the ground before it crashed. Jim croce was dead at age thirty. We can't save time in a bottle, and we never know how much time we have left. We tend to think about the rest of our lives in terms of years and decades. The truth is the rest of our lives might be measured in hours or even minutes. So we need to make the most of each moment we have.
Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice on examination, investigations, common procedures, and in-patient care. These books will be invaluable resources for residents and students, as well as a useful reference for practitioners. Part of the most popular medical handbook series in the world, the Oxford American Handbook of Otolaryngology is a dependable manual geared for ultra-quick reference any time. It is comprehensive enough to serve as a mini-text, yet it is thin and light and uses concise, bulleted text, quick reference tabs, four-color presentation, and bookmark ribbons to help provide fast answers on the ward. Written by an acclaimed team of authors, this Handbook presents information in a succinct, comprehensive, and affordable volume in the proven format of the Oxford Handbook Series. Why choose the Oxford American Handbook of Otolaryngology? The design.... The Handbook uses a unique flexicover design that's durable and practical. Compact, light, and fits in your pocket! Also has quick reference tabs, four-color presentation, and bookmark ribbons to help provide fast answers. The interior layout.... The Handbook is a quick reference in a small, innovative package. With one to two topics per page, it provides easy access and the emergency sections are in red to stand out. Icons throughout aid quick reference. The information.... The Handbook succinctly covers all the essential topics in a one or two-page spread format with colored headings that break up the text and provide a logical structure for readers of all levels. Common clinical questions are answered clearly and extensively. The history.... Oxford University Press is known around the world for excellence, tradition, and innovation. These handbooks are among the best selling in the world. The price.... You get an extremely useful tool at a great value!
The second book in this environmental epic fantasy series delves into the mysteries of a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. After setting fire to the Forever Sea and leaving the surface world behind, Kindred Greyreach dives below to find a Seafloor populated by roving bands of scavengers. Among them, Kindred discovers a familiar face working to save the Sea from the continued spread of the Greys and the ravages of the world above. But when Kindred finds herself at odds with a faction below the Sea, she and her friends will have to use every power available to them—including their link to the surface world—to forestall disaster. Meanwhile, above, a boy named Flitch, son of the Baron of the Borders, finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis as survivors from Arcadia and the Once-City arrive on the Mainland. As monsters from the depths of the Sea begin to surface near the Mainland’s shores, Flitch must also navigate a crisis closer to home. As Flitch, his family, and their allies search for solutions, the truth they seek may lay hidden in old stories and long-held family secrets. Above and below, Flitch and Kindred must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.
(Piano Solo Songbook). Phillip Keveren presents 12 piano solo medleys, seamlessly blending beloved Christmas carols with popular worship songs. Titles include: Angels We Have Heard on High/Lord, I Lift Your Name on High * The Holly and the Ivy/You Are My King (Amazing Love) * O Holy Night/Holy Spirit * Of the Father's Love Begotten/How Deep the Father's Love for Us * Once in Royal David's City/10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) * What Child Is This?/Mary, Did You Know? * and more.
(Easy Piano Songbook). 15 treasured melodies arranged in a classical style through accessible easy piano arrangements by Phillip Keveren. Includes: Alouette * The Bear Went over the Mountain * Eensy Weensy Spider * Hush, Little Baby * It's Raining, It's Pouring * London Bridge * My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean * Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone * Pop Goes the Weasel * Skip to My Lou * Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star * and more.
(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.
If you've been around as long as I have, you probably remember the songs of singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He grew up in South Philly, watching performances of Fats Domino and the Coasters on TV's American Bandstand. He looked like a tough guy, but everyone who knew him said he has a big, warm fun-loving heart. Jim Croce spent the first decade of his adult life toiling in a series of day jobs: teaching emotionally disturbed children, working in a hospital, driving trucks, operating a jackhammer at construction sites. At night, he would sing and play guitar in coffeehouses. He wasn't waiting for his big break- he was hustling for it. When he was twenty-nine, Jim Croce finally landed his first recording contract. His first album, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, was completed quickly, many of the songs being recorded in just one or two takes. Once the album was released, Croce's music, an acoustic blend of folk and rock, caught on fast. The first two singles released from that album quickly became number one hits on AM radio, and Jim Croce became a star. His long- delayed dream had finally come true. His first two hits were upbeat roack ballads. His record company decided to release a third song from the album-a soft plaintive song called "Time in a Bottle". It was about how precious each moment of life is and how quickly those moments pass, never to come again. The song wistfully recounted the things Croce would do if only he could keep time in a bottle and pour out extra hours whenever he needed them. Before "Time in a Bottle" could be released, Jim Croce proved that the words of that song were truer than he realized. On September 20, 1973, after performing in a concert at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Lousiana, Croce boarded a small chartered plane along with a flight crew and members of his band. The heavily loaded plane clipped a tree as it took off. Like Croce's career, the plane had barely gotten off the ground before it crashed. Jim croce was dead at age thirty. We can't save time in a bottle, and we never know how much time we have left. We tend to think about the rest of our lives in terms of years and decades. The truth is the rest of our lives might be measured in hours or even minutes. So we need to make the most of each moment we have.
The second book in this environmental epic fantasy series delves into the mysteries of a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. After setting fire to the Forever Sea and leaving the surface world behind, Kindred Greyreach dives below to find a Seafloor populated by roving bands of scavengers. Among them, Kindred discovers a familiar face working to save the Sea from the continued spread of the Greys and the ravages of the world above. But when Kindred finds herself at odds with a faction below the Sea, she and her friends will have to use every power available to them—including their link to the surface world—to forestall disaster. Meanwhile, above, a boy named Flitch, son of the Baron of the Borders, finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis as survivors from Arcadia and the Once-City arrive on the Mainland. As monsters from the depths of the Sea begin to surface near the Mainland’s shores, Flitch must also navigate a crisis closer to home. As Flitch, his family, and their allies search for solutions, the truth they seek may lay hidden in old stories and long-held family secrets. Above and below, Flitch and Kindred must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.
(Piano Solo Songbook). Phillip Keveren's masterful arrangements of praise and worship favorites are perfect for hobbyists or church musicians looking for fresh material. This collection features 15 songs: Ancient Words * As the Deer * Build Your Kingdom Here * He Is Exalted * Here I Am to Worship (Light of the World) * Living Hope * Lord, I Lift Your Name on High * Majesty * O Church Arise * Our God * Revelation Song * Speak O Lord * There Is a Redeemer * Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me * Your Name.
The Lord's song sings faith into people's hearts. Music is central to the life of the church. In Church Music: For the Care of Souls, Phillip Magness helps the church to recover the primary instrument in worship: congregational voices. With voices raised, we sing praises to our God and King for his Son Jesus Christ. Singing calls for a special kind of leadership—not only on the part of musicians, but also among pastors and lay leaders. Together, leaders can help congregations find their voice and reclaim the power of music for the care of souls.
In its northern fastness Britannia - despite all the benefits of the Pax Romana, with its technology and brutally rationalist philosophy - has kept its mysterious secrets, hidden deep in the wild forests that still cover much of the land. As the Empire gathers its forces, three young people hold the future in their hands: the Roman Viti, now known as Coll, Angus the mechanic-turned-revolutionary and Mirana the student, now in touch with strange powers. And as the cold, rational imperatives of Rome meet the wild magic of an older world, the Empire's dominion will at last be challenged. The Burning Forest: the triumphant conclusion to the magical epic A Land Fit for Heroes.
This book examines the nature and extent of changes in communal structures and self-definition among Jews and Christians in Germany during the century before the Reformation. It argues that Christian community was restructured along civic and religious lines resulting in the development of a local sacred society that integrated material and spiritual well being into a moral and legal society, stressing the common good and internal peace, while Jewish community, given a variety of factors, came to be defined through regional communal structures and moral and legal discourse that allowed for broader geographical communal identity. Bell draws from a variety of German, Latin, and Hebrew sources and takes into consideration several methods and viewpoints of studying history.
An extra-terrestrial way of death. When legendary linguist Marius Thorndyke visits the bizarre planet of Pe-Ellia, he is inexorably sucked into the local way of life, of sex, of death. Nearly twice our size, powerful, intelligent, skin-changing yet roughly humanoid, the alien Pe-Ellians are vulnerable - and deadly.
For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.
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