No.17 - "From Rote to Note (and Back!)”: The checkered history of hymnal development in America, Part 2.As we have seen, for the first half of the nineteenth century, congregants in American churches – if they used any at all – used words-only songsters in...
No. 16 -“From Rote to Note (and Back)”: The checkered history of hymnal development in America, Part 1.I will always remember a worship committee meeting in one of the churches I served. I was sitting next to a delightful lady, a...
No. 15 - Christianity, Community, and the Holy Spirit: A Church Musician’s PerspectiveWorship, in my view as a Christian, is central to the walk of faith. There are two equally important types of worship, personal and corporate. Both have been essential in my life and...
No. 14 - A “Servanthood of Song”Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the...
No. 13 - From “Sorrow Songs” to Concert Spirituals, and the Importance of Improvisational Forms in American Sacred Music“The Port Royal Experiment”, discussed in the previous installment, was an important juncture in American church music history. Lucy McKim...
