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Music |
| Issue #84 - Choosing and Using Choral Music |
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Carl L. Stam
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Choosing the right choral music has got to be the single most challenging task I have faced in the 35 years I have directed church choirs. I dread the idea of buying sixty copies of something that wil...
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Songs for the Season |
| Issue #84 - Descants in Bach Chorales |
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Jan Overduin
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J. S. Bach’s 200-plus cantatas hold many choral treasures. Some of the best known, such as “Jesus, Joy of Our (Man’s) Desiring” from Cantata 147, are well within the grasp of a...
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Worship |
| Issue #83 - Singing Through the Christian Year |
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Gail Hall
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Our church follows the seasons of the Christian year and the lectionary Scripture passages, changing banners and colors accordingly. When we planned a service called “Singing Through the Christi...
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Resources |
| Issue #59 - Forty Fearless Teens: Learning What Worked for the Youth Choir |
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John Henry Derksen
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It is 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning. About forty teenagers have assembled in the choir rehearsal room at Islington United Church in west Toronto. Most of them look sleepy; many look as...
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Perspectives |
| Issue #30 - The joy of singing in canon: guidelines and resources for using canons in worship, page 1 of 2 |
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John D. Witvliet
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One of the greatest musical joys of childhood is singing a round for the first time. What a discovery that "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" can be sung by different voices all beginnin...
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Perspectives |
| Issue #25 - The Canticles of Christmas: Singing the songs of Zechariah, Mary, the angels, and Simeon. |
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Timothy D. Wilds
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We've all heard them—those words that strike fear in the hearts of choir directors everywhere: "And what are you doing for Christmas?" Each year, toward the end of the summer, we s...
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Resources |
| Issue #21 - Singing Salvation's Story: Choral suggestions for a service of lessons and carols |
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Merle R. Mustert
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Listed on these pages are carols and hymns suitable for each of the nine Scripture lessons of the traditional English evening service. Begun by Dean Eric Milner-White in 1918 at King's...
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Resources |
| Issue #17 - Choral Music for the Season: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany |
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Helen Hoekema Van Wyck
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ADVENT Jean Berger, "The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee," Augsburg 11-1264. Moderately difficult SATB (some unusual melodic intervals in each voice part); well worth the effor...
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Resources |
| Issue #16 - Wedding Music (Special Insert) |
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Shirley Balk Boomsma,
Joseph Galema
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For organ, other instruments, solo voice, and choir Instruments of Joy Shirley Balk Boomsma Although nearly all church weddings include organ music, many couples seem uncertain ab...
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Resources |
| Issue #16 - Sacred music for a sacred service. |
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Joseph Galema
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