{"id":57676,"date":"2021-10-20T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=57676"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:10:25","slug":"brief-book-review-themes-and-variations-music-and-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/brief-book-review-themes-and-variations-music-and-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: <i>Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination<br \/>\n<\/em>By Don Saliers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giamusic.com\/store\/resource\/saliers-book-print-g10148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57679 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Saliers-Theme-and-Variations-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Saliers-Theme-and-Variations-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Saliers-Theme-and-Variations-274x400.jpg 274w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Saliers-Theme-and-Variations.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>Who should read this?\u00a0 <\/strong>Anyone who loves music, and has experienced or is open to its transformative power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should you read this?\u00a0 <\/strong>Because Don Saliers has a lifetime of experience as a musician, preacher, teacher, husband, father, and improviser to share with you in short, simple, powerful easily-digestible essays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What intrigued me the most?\u00a0 <\/strong>It has been said that music speaks a language only the heart knows.\u00a0 Sailers is fluent in that language, and shares with the reader in these deeply personal texts what his heart has learned.\u00a0 Many times I found myself \u201cGoogling\u201d unfamiliar music to understand better the connections he was making.\u00a0 Like poetry, one could read these essays again and again and find more insights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kudos <\/strong>for an amazing index that lists composers, compositions, liturgical seasons, composers, psalms, and themes that aids the reader in finding essays quickly and seeing how the texts are woven together.\u00a0 The essays have a wonderful conversational tone to them which is engaging and uplifting.<\/p>\n<p>Don Saliers, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giamusic.com\/store\/resource\/saliers-book-print-g10148\">Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination<\/a>, <\/em>GIA Publications, Inc., 2020, 282 pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>REVIEWER: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohns.edu\/academics\/faculty\/julia-upton-rsm\">Julia Upton, RSM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Upton reviews Don Saliers, <i>Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":57679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3117,3297,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scholarship-new-ws","category-brief-book-review","category-music-general","category-recently-published-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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