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Song That I Am
$29.95Add to cartThe Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Elisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit. With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because “only the lover sings” (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear.
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Better Get It In Your Soul
$24.95Add to cartThis book offers hope to parishes searching for a way to make their liturgies more meaningful in the local context. Written by a priest and a musician who have worked together for many years in the Canterbury House ministry at the University of Michigan, this book describes methods that demonstrate a respect for others’ gifts and skills, discernment of spiritual needs, and welcoming the creative force of the Holy Spirit into the planning process. Though thoroughly based in the Book of Common Prayer liturgy, the experience and ideas presented here are described in ways that will be useful to all liturgical denominations.
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Foundations Of Christian Worship
$48.00Add to cartProviding structure for thinking seriously about worship as a part of Christian faith and experience, Foundations of Christian Worship addresses the questions “What is Christian worship?” and “Why do Christians worship as they do?” Beginning with an overview of the theological, biblical, historical, and anthropological foundations of Christian worship, Susan J. White then turns to discussing its components-prayer, creeds, music, time, ritual, and art. Later, she delves into the nourishment of the Christian life and the major worship events throughout the human life cycle. Finally, she discusses contemporary challenges to Christian worship-such as ecumenism, pluralism, and the connotations of worship language-and concludes with case studies for further exploration. With helpful appendixes and a glossary of liturgical terms, Susan White’s Foundations of Christian Worship is an excellent primer for seminary students and ministers early in their careers.
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Music In Christian Worship
$29.95Add to cartMusic in Christian Worship explores Charlotte Kroeker’s conception of church music as sung prayer. Kroeker’s lifelong experience with church music has allowed her to see that church music as sung prayer requires faithful theology, quality music, and accessibility for parishioners. Church music is interdisciplinary, requiring astute theologians, knowledgeable and competent musicians, and pastoral sensitivities for working with congregations.
In addition to addressing the overarching issues in sacred music and the church, Music in Christian Worship demonstrates that music as sung prayer requires much more than music alone and approaches church music from a unique perspective, stressing the theological, musical, and pastoral aspects of sacred music. Kroeker’s work contains essays by various philosophers, theologians, musicians, and historians who have contributed much to the creation of dynamic music for worship. The result is a work that truly demonstrates how music can effectively serve the liturgy.
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Enriching Our Music 1
$21.95Add to cartFreedom Mass – Kate Alm
Music For The Eucharist – David Hurd
Music For The Holy Eucharist Rite II – Peter Crisafulli
Missa Appalachia – Jonathan Dimmock
Mass – Susan Calvin Fletcher
Service Music For St. Mary’s – Randall Giles
The St. Mary Mass – Carl MaultsBy
Red Lake Mass – Monte Mason
Missa Oecumenica – Arr. Richard Proulx
Mass For St. Philip’s – William Bradley Roberts
Mass In The Lydian Mode – Richard R. Webster
Light Of The World – Crisafulli, Emblom, And Mason
A Song To The Lamb – McLeod
We Praise You, O God – John Karl Hirten
Canticles A-K – Crisafulli, Dimmock, Emblom, Haywood, Hernandez, Hirten, Kennedy, Mason, Near, Reynolds, Roberts, And Sitton.Additional Info
This is the first of two collections from the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of additional service music for the church with eleven settings for the eucharist and two settings each of Canticles A-K from Enriching Our Worship 1. -
Future Of Protestant Worship
$25.00Add to cartOver the past several years churches have engaged in an ongoing debate between two different styles of worship, loosely categorized as traditional and contemporary. Here, professor and longtime pastor Ronald Byars argues that many of the differences between the two styles are superficial–and that ultimately both styles embrace the same anthropocentric worldview that grew out of the Enlightenment. Authentic worship, he challenges, is theocentric, not anthropocentric, and therefore worship can and must be both responsive to contemporary culture and grounded in history and tradition. The answer to the debate is not found in pleasing congregants but in exploring worship that is biblical, that honors our communion with the saints, and that takes seriously the ways that our culture is reshaping us. Byars concludes with a narrative description of a Protestant worship service that is both authentic and postmodern.
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Enriching Our Music 2
$21.95Add to cartOpening Acclamation (2)
Hymn Of Praise (7)
Glory To God (2)
Lord, Have Mercy (10)
Holy God (3)
Gospel Acclamation (3)
Peace Chant (1)
Eucharistic Prayer 1 (1)
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord (10)
Memorial Acclamation (2)
Lord’s Prayer (4)
Fraction Anthem (8)
Communion (4)
Morning Prayer (2)
Evening Prayer (3)
Canticles L-S (9)Additional Info
This second volume of canticles and settings for the Eucharist contains music for the remaining canticles (L through S) found in Enriching Our Worship 1 (Canticles A through K found in Enriching Our Music 1) and more compositions for the Eucharist by a wide variety of composers. The varied styles will satisfy many tastes and worship needs. -
Sacred In Music
$40.00Add to cartReligion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated, yet the connection between them has been sorely neglected in the scholarly study of religion. In The Sacred in Music, Albert Blackwell brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich Western musical tradition, both classical and Christian.
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Symphony Of New Testament Hymns
$24.95Add to cartA Symphony of New Testament Hymns opens a window of insight into familiar Scripture passages-poetic passages that were later often set to music. By showing that the composers of some of these traditional New Testament, pre-60 C.E. hymns intentionally created passages that are lyrical or hymnic within the prose, this work presents the sometimes hidden depth behind their construction and meaning.
Inspired by Roy Harris’ Folksong Symphony, Father Karris arranges his treatment of Philippians 2:6-11, Colossians 1:15-20, Ephesians 2:14-16, Timothy 3:16, 2 Timothy 2:11-13, Titus 3:4-7, and 1 Peter 3:18-22 in a way that faith-fully addresses today’s spiritual concerns, such as spirituality, ecology, reconciliation, baptism, and angels.
The first book in English in thirty years to study New Testament hymns, A Symphony of New Testament Hymns brings readers greater enjoyment of these lesser-known Pauline hymns and a deepening of faith. Father Karris contends we have much to learn from what these songs proclaimed about Jesus at a time when the four gospels hadn’t been published.
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Visions Of Liturgy And Music For A New Century
$29.95Add to cartWhat is the future of liturgical song? The answer to that question, says Lucien Deiss, depends upon the development of the liturgy itself and our search for better ways to spread the gospel.
Drawing on the riches of the past to guide that search, Father Deiss reflects on what is desirable today. Making the ministerial function of music and song his point of reference-and the key to all questions-he discusses every musical aspect, from processions, acclamations, and responsorial psalms, to hymns, the credo, and the cantillation of the readings. He outlines present-day practices, makes suggestions for improvement, and contributes sound, creative ideas for the future.
Using his broad historical and musical knowledge of the Church’s liturgy, Father Deiss takes us step-by-step through the Eucharistic celebration. He reflects not just on the liturgy’s repertoire of music and song, but also on the roles of those who participate in its formation: priest, choir, music liturgist, organist, cantor, and congregation.
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Sing A New Song
$29.95Add to cartThe Hebrew Scriptures relate many instances of the people of God breaking into song when they experience the presence of God in their lives. Where is that song of praise in the Christian’s life today?
The responsorial psalm of the Sunday liturgy both summarizes the Word of God for the day and invites the community to join, mind and spirit, in affirming their part in that Word. Many books have examined the readings of the Sunday Lectionary. Sing a New Song focuses on the psalms (1991 NAB translation), grouping them by genre, then considering each in its relationship to the set of readings it accompanies.
While the insights of scholarship are used, the intent of the work is to inspire more insightful and imaginative celebration of God’s Word. It will therefore be of service to those who preach the Word, those who plan the liturgy and provide music, and most of all to everyone who prays and is nourished by the Sunday readings.
