Singing and Making Music : Issues in Church Music Today,9780875526171

Singing and Making Music : Issues in Church Music Today

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ISBN13: 9780875526171
ISBN10: 0875526179
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-28
Publisher(s): Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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Summary

Thirty-three provocative essays on corporate worship, hymnody and psalmody, issues, and composers and composition. Explores Scripture teaching on the role of music in the church.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvi
Part 1: CORPORATE WORSHIP 1(68)
1. Sermon in Song: Sacred Music as Proclamation
3(7)
2. Sacred Music as Prayer
10(8)
3. Applause: For Whom Are You Clapping?
18(5)
4. A Biblical Case for Instruments in Worship
23(9)
5. King David's Praise Team
32(9)
6. Leading in Worship as Accompanist
41(9)
7. Authenticity in Corporate Worship Music
50(7)
8. Service Music: What's It All About?
57(12)
Part 2: HYMNODY AND PSALMODY 69(62)
9. Trinitarian Hymnody
71(6)
10. Hymns in Your Church
77(6)
11. What Psalm Ascriptions Tell Us
83(11)
12. Writing Hymns
94(5)
13. Song in the Bible
99(11)
14. Biblical Hymns of James Montgomery Boice
110(13)
15. Why Every Christian Should Sing
123(8)
Part 3: ISSUES 131(74)
16. Choir for Hire: Should Church Musicians Be Paid?
133(6)
17. What Does a Biblical Music Director Look Like?
139(9)
18. Teaching Children Music at Church
148(7)
19. Music in the Small Church: Where Do We Go from Here?
155(9)
20. So You Want a Better Organ
164(7)
21. Luther and Bar Song: The Truth, Please!
171(8)
22. Misconceptions about Church Music
179(10)
23. What Happened to Hymns?
189(8)
24. Musical Ignorance versus Musical Arrogance
197(8)
Part 4: COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITION 205(76)
25. J.S. Bach and Musical Hermeneutics—Part 1: Bach, the Evangelical Composer/Preacher
207(10)
26. J.S. Bach and Musical Hermeneutics—Part 2: Lessons from Bach
217(6)
27. Heinrich Schutz: A Hermeneutical Composery
223(15)
28. Felix Mendelssohn's Psalm Settings
238(13)
29. Evidence of Igor Stravinsky's Faith: The Symphony of Psalms
251(16)
30. The Anatomy of a Hymn Tune
267(9)
31. Criteria for Good Church Music
276(5)
Conclusion: Three Principles That Would Change Church Music Today 281(26)
Appendix 1: Thoughts about Music
285(11)
Appendix 2: A Philosophy—Theology of Music for Tenth Presbyterian Church
296(11)
Index of Subjects and Names 307

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