Posts

Showing posts from November, 2013

Advent Music

Image
Page CXVI. Advent to Christmas. Boulder: SoundCloud/Page CXVI, 2013. mp3 audio download. $9.99. http://pagecxvi.com/    https://soundcloud.com/pagecxvi/silent-night   http://youtu.be/D1HyErnS86A   http://pagecxvi.com/preorder   (H) Advent to Christmas is the first of three projected Church Calendar albums by a group we've reviewed on a couple of occasions, Page CXVI. This brief album of seven tracks left me wanting more. I pray there will be more in their Church Year series. Tracks include: Awake My Soul Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Comfort, Comfort, Now My People O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Angels We Have Heard on High O Come, All Ye Faithful Silent Night Expect new and modified melodies. Expect to be able to sing along to the hymn texts you already have memorized while listening in your car. This album is more edifying to me than secularized "Siberian Steamroller" mall musak that retailers have already begun playing. Hear com...

Received for Review

Image
Ham, Ken. Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2013. 256 Pages. Paper. $13.99. www.masterbooks.net (LHP) Purdom, Georgia, General Editor. Galapagos Islands: A Different View. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2013.  104 Pages. Cloth. $18.99. www.masterbooks.net (LHP) Schroeder, Joel Allen, Director. Dear Mr. Watterson. (Documentary about the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and its enduring cultural legacy) Pre-release online screener. LINK TO PHOTOS: https://www.dropbox. com/sh/va0mpzpc5hdhezs/ 3diNu9abNE (LHPN) Finale 2014. Eden Prarie, MN: MakeMusic, 2013. Music notation/composition software. Windows/Mac. (Retail: $600; Academic/Theological: $350; Upgrade from Finale, previous version $139.95; Trade up from Allegro: $300; Trade up from PrintMusic: $400. Trade Up from SongWriter: $450; Switch from competitive product $139.)  http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale / (LH) Lectionary Psalms: the Revised G...

Received for Review

Image
The Project. Martyrs Prayers. Indianapolis: Saints and Survivors, 2012. (Audio CD, $12.99.) mp3 audio download, $9.99. www.themartyrsproject.com (HN)  Page CXVI. Advent to Christmas. Boulder: SoundCloud/Page CXVI, 2013. mp3 audio download. $9.99. http://pagecxvi.com/    https://soundcloud.com/pagecxvi/silent-night   http://youtu.be/D1HyErnS86A  http://pagecxvi.com/preorder   (H) Getty, Keith and Kristyn Getty. Live at the Gospel Coalition: Modern and Traditional Hymns (Songbook). Nashville: GettyMusic, 2013. 44 Pages. Paper. $14.99. (downloadable version available for $11.99) http://www.gettymusic.com/ (LH) Carrico, David. 1635: Music and Murder (Ring of Fire). Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2013. 518 Pages. Kindle e-book. $4.99. http://www.baen.com/   http://www.amazon.com/1635-Music-Murder-Ring-Fire-ebook/dp/B00F96EOT8/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1383968779&sr=1-2   (N) Flint, Eric, David Carrico. 1636: Sea...