Ars nova is a late medieval musical stylistic period, centered in France.
Ars nova may also refer to:
Ars Nova is a Japanese progressive rock band. The current members are Keiko Kumagai (keyboards), Shinko "Panky" Shibata (bass guitar), Hazime (drums) and Satoshi Handa (guitar).
Ars Nova's music features keyboards heavily—this was particularly true between 1998 and 2003 when the band had two keyboard players. Common sounds include the ubiquitous Hammond organ, as well as more recent digital sounds. Almost all of their music is instrumental.
The band's musical influences are ELP, Goblin, PFM, Rick Wakeman, Balletto di Bronzo and classical music. Kumagai, the keyboard player, writes all of the band's compositions. She has played on the Ayreon album Universal Migrator part two: Flight of the Migrator. For much of its history (until Hazime and more recently Handa joined), the band was all-female, unusual in the world of progressive rock.
Ars Nova was formed in 1983 by Kyoko Kanazawa (bass guitar), Keiko Thubata (keyboards) and Yumiko Saito (drums). The band covered bands such as ELP and Trace. In 1986, Thubata left the band. Keiko Kumagai replaced her and played two gigs with the band before leaving for personal reasons.
Ars Nova Copenhagen is a Danish vocal ensemble focusing on Renaissance and contemporary music but with frequent excursions into Baroque and Romantic repertoire. The basic line-up is 12 singers (SSSAAATTTBBB). Ars Nova Copenhagen is led by Paul Hillier who made his first appearance with the group in 1997 and was appointed chief conductor and artistic director in 2002. Former chief conductors were Bo Holten (1979-1995) and Tamás Vetö (1995-2000). Ars Nova has toured in more than 35 countries on 5 continents and has recorded more than 40 CDs many of which have received top ratings in the international music press. In 2010 the group received a Grammy reward for ‘The Little Match Girl Passion’ featuring music by David Lang.
Jerusalem is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1901 and 1902. The narrative spans several generations in the 19th century, and focuses on several families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a community of Swedish emigrants in Jerusalem. It is loosely based on a real emigration that took place from the parish of Nås in 1896.
As part of her research Lagerlof went to visit Horatio and Anna Spafford at the American Colony, Jerusalem.
The first four chapters of the first book were adapted into two ambitious films by Victor Sjöström in 1919 and 1920, Sons of Ingmar and Karin Daughter of Ingmar. Sjöström originally intended to film the entire suite, but decided to cancel the project after the second film received unenthusiastic critical response.Gustaf Molander picked up where Sjöström left, and released his adaptation of the first book, Ingmarsarvet, in 1925, followed by the second, Till Österland, in 1926. The Danish filmmaker Bille August directed a 1996 film version with the title Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (German: Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum) is a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was first published in 1783 – the same year, when the Prussian officer Christian Wilhelm von Dohm published the second part of his Mémoire Concerning the amelioration of the civil status of the Jews. Moses Mendelssohn was one of the key figures of Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and his philosophical treatise, dealing with social contract and political theory (especially concerning the question of the separation between religion and state), can be regarded as his most important contribution to Haskalah. The book which was written in Prussia on the eve of the French Revolution, consisted of two parts and each one was paged separately. The first part discusses "religious power" and the freedom of conscience in the context of the political theory (Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes), and the second part discusses Mendelssohn's personal conception of Judaism concerning the new secular role of any religion within an enlightened state. In his publication Moses Mendelssohn combined a defense of the Jewish population against public accusations with contemporary criticism of the present conditions of the Prussian Monarchy.
Jerusalem and Dopesmoker are the final albums by the American heavy metal band Sleep. The albums were released in 1999 and 2003 respectively. The music for these albums was written during a four-year period when the group was working on a single song that was around an hour in length. Sleep had signed with London Records, which financed the album. When recording had finished, London Records was unhappy with the finished product and refused to release it. The album was later released in various forms by different record labels. All versions of the album received very positive reception from music critics, who described it as a high-water mark in both the stoner metal and doom metal genres.
[Musique: Daniel Mongrain (with the collaboration of François Mongrain)]
[Paroles: François Mongrain]
[Un cadavre repose dans son sang, une vision figée dans le temps; Profanation de l'âme d'un mourant, L'utilisation de la mort pour la gloire de l'argent. Et certains osent appeler ça de l'art.]
[DM-] A BLOODY HAND COLLAPSED
ON THE SOILED GROUND
IT`S FLUID OF LIFE STREAMING
THROUGH THE EARTH`S ENTRAILS
A GOOD ANGLE IS NOT A PROBLEM TO CATCH
THOSE EXPRESSIONS THAT WILL LAST
PERFECT MODELS FOR THE EXPOSURE
BUT IN AN ART GALLERY
WHY DON`T THEY LET THOSE CORPSES DISAPPEAR
'CAN'T CALL THIS IMMORTALITY
[DM+FM-] ARS NOVA, DESECRATION
ARS NOVA, NORMALIZATION ATTEMPT
[DM-] THEY WANT TO SEE THEMSELVES AS ARTISTS
WITH THE FINEST AESTHETIC
BUT I SEE THIS AS VANDALISM
WITH NO RESPECT FOR THE DYING
PRIVILEGE OF SOME PHOTOGRAPHIES
SACRILEGE OF WHAT THEY SEE
PRIVILEGE OF SOME ATROCITIES
DESECRATION
[Lead: Daniel Mongrain]
[DM+FM-] ARS NOVA, DESECRATION
ARS NOVA, NECROPHILLIC TEMPTATION
[DM-] PERFECT MODELS FOR THE EXPOSURE
BUT IN AN ART GALLERY
[DM+FM-] WHY DON`T THEY LET THOSE CORPSES DISAPPEAR
'CAN'T CALL THIS IMMORTALITY