Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel (AMS Studies in Music)
by Dr Jesse Rodin
These simple settings of the Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, tracts, offertories, and Communions are intended for the use of parish choirs, at the principal service on Sundays and Holy-days, throughout the Christian year.
Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Resurrection (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity, #14)
by Thomas Kollamparampil
This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homilies on the Resurrection contrast the Friday of sufferings and the Sunday of resurrection. At the resurrection heaven and earth become reconciled, Sheol is uprooted, and the tomb of the Bridegroom becomes the bridal chamber. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain the original Syriac text of Jacob's surviving sermons, fully vocalized, alongside an annotated English tra...
