Product Description: An analysis of funeral music from the vantage point of genre and internal musical coding. Sections on Historical Perspective, Genres and Styles, Semiotics and Musical Lexicography, and Specific Transcriptions Extensive bibliography Appendix includes chapter on Organological Notes on Purcell’s Funeral March for Queen Mary, sample pages from available transcriptions, and table of all available transcription...read more

Product Description: When an author writes from his experiences as a public school teacher and administrator, his stories usually sound authentic. When he has served as a shepherd in the church for many years, his stories take on an additional hue of validity...read more