The Ministry of Music

The Ministry of Music
Author: Kenneth W. Osbeck
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1971
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780825496769

A practical handbook on music and its application in local church ministry. Widely used as a textbook in Bible schools.

Pocket Guide for the Church Choir Member

Pocket Guide for the Church Choir Member
Author: Kenneth W. Osbeck
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1985
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780825497209

A helpful sourcebook of musical fundamentals designed to make every choir member knowledgeable and confident. Includes a glossary of musical terms.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities
Author: Suzel Ana Reily
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2016
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019985999X

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.

Gospel Principles

Gospel Principles
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: 1465101276

A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.

Sing with All the People of God

Sing with All the People of God
Author: Chad Fothergill
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506469566

Sing with all the People of God by Chad Fothergill will be especially valuable for church musicians as well as pastors and other rostered leaders. It addresses topics such as skillful preparation, planning, and leadership of assembly song, working with volunteer musicians and staff, navigating questions of musical style, and more.

Essential Worship

Essential Worship
Author: Greg Scheer
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493405446

An Essential Guide to Understanding and Leading Worship Worship leaders are adrift in a sea of worship resources, but, incredibly, no single book provides a simple introduction to worship and worship leading. Essential Worship is a concise, easy-to-read primer on the basics of worship theology and practice. Each concept is introduced clearly and concisely. Diagrams, charts, and bulleted lists make the information easy to digest. And preparation and reflection questions help readers apply the material to their own church context. Whether one is a beginner or an experienced worship leader, readers from all traditions will find in this resource a solid foundation for future success. It is particularly well-suited for the first-time worship or praise band leader, as well as for pastors who want to be more intentional about the music in their services.

The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook

The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook
Author: Bill Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538134659

The third edition of The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook offers new sections on digital concepts, wireless considerations, digital mixers, modern digital snakes, routing schemes, block diagrams, signal paths, plug-ins for live sound, and more. Any live act must sound great to be well received by today’s increasingly demanding audiences. If you’re a sound operator, teacher, musician, or even a music fan who is interested in becoming a sound operator, you know that regardless of the musical genre or venue, high-quality audio is mandatory for an artist or band’s success. This book shows you how to improve your audio skills, including how to build great sounds that form a professional-sounding mix. Revised and updated, The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook, 3rd Edition focuses on each modern and classic aspects of live sound operation in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand—from system, component, and acoustic considerations to miking, mixing, and recording the live show. Tightly produced online videos clearly demonstrate key concepts presented in the text. These instructional videos, along with hundreds of detailed illustrations and photographs, provide an incredibly powerful and useful learning experience. An access code to the companion website is provided in the book. The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook, 3rd Edition, features: Shaping Instrument and Vocal Sounds Creating an Excellent Mix Mixer Basics Digital Mixers and Snakes Volume Issues and Sound Theory Digital Theory Managing the Signal Path Signal Processors and Effects Modern Plug-ins Microphone Principles, Techniques, and Design Wireless Systems In-Ear versus Floor Monitors Loudspeakers and Amplifiers Acoustic Considerations Miking the Group and Sound Check

Sound of Worship

Sound of Worship
Author: Doug Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-01-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1136114939

Whether you are designing a new system or need to update and get the most out of the one in place Sound of Worship will offer essential information to guide and inform you choices. Written to give the context to help you focus your choices as well as the technical information to understand options, this essential guide will help you avoid costly mistakes when working with acoustics and the sound systems of the church. When planning a system this book has you covered! Considering everything from building design and understanding the purpose and use of the sound system to the technical aspects of the acoustic equipment and sound specification and types. The website has numerous audio examples to illustrate points made and tools used in the book. It demonstrate the terms used and what different choices will sound like, with before and after recordings of acoustic treatment and how it effects the overall sound of the church.

The Church Music Handbook

The Church Music Handbook
Author: Lynn W. Thayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1971
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780310368809

The responsibility for the music in your church may rest in the hands of a committee, or a single individual such as the pastor, or a member of the board or session. Regardless of your type of administration, the practical procedures described in this handbook can be of concrete value to you and priceless to your church. Designed to fill a void in evangelical literature, The Church Music Handbook is a complete and exhaustive sourcebook for the music ministry of the local church. It includes thorough and practical discussions of: the music director and his duties, the music committee and its responsibilities, the various problems and situations that must be faced in every phase of the balanced music program. Written from a lifetime of experience in all aspects of church music, this book will prove invaluable for organizing choirs and rehearsals, for setting up a meaningful instrumental program, for guiding the church organist in his or her responsibilities, for setting up a workable music library, etc. The ideas in this handbook are both realistic and workable. There is not one paragraph of theory which has not been successfully applied many times. - Jacket flap.