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Fine Tuning: Flexibility and the Liturgy
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Flexibility and the Liturgy. Why is this so? The basic steps always going in the same direction is going to be boring, but, whatever your routine, adding dips and breaks and turns and moving around the floor makes for an exciting and uplifting dance - whether your worship is like a waltz, a tango, or the Cottoneyed Joe. We had the following "dips and turns" along the way:. We sang the P...
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Fine Tuning: Intonations vs. Preludes: Introducing Hymns
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Saturday, May 12, 2012. Intonations vs. Preludes: Introducing Hymns. This post is not just for the organist - but for the pastors and worship committees who work together with them in planning the Divine Service. As you may have noticed, we're moving toward more bite-sized "helpful hints" posts here at Fine Tuning. We hope the ideas we are sharing will be "solutions" for you in your parish. Anyway, thank you fo...
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Fine Tuning: July 2011
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Friday, July 22, 2011. Leaving now from St. Peter to go back home - energized and renewed in my vocation as a "storyteller" in the church. This is the calling of all who lead the Lord's song, to lead and to teach the family song, the song which tells the family story. ( Ps. 89:1 - "I will story of Your love, O God, and proclaim Your faithfulness forever."). Singing Paul Tate's Venite. New hymn tunes for old tex...
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Fine Tuning: June 2012
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Friday, June 8, 2012. Beat-Driven vs. Word-Driven, Another View. Rev Larry Peters, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Clarksville, Tennessee, and author of one of our favorite blogs. Had some thoughts about one of our favorite topics and graciously agreed to let us repost his article here:. Of the music is united with the natural rhythm of the given sacred text, either through assuming the textual rhythm as its...
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Fine Tuning: April 2012
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Thursday, April 26, 2012. THOSE "ONCE A YEAR" HYMNS. What are your thoughts? Which hymns are strongly associated with particular days of the church year in your congregation? Which of the appointed ones, on the other hand, are not so successful. Are there any you've replaced and found greater success with? And are there some that work better at other times of the year or other parts of the service? We'd like to...
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Fine Tuning: September 2013
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Monday, September 30, 2013. The End of All Learning. But the comparitive merits of rote learning and literacy is an interesting topic, and FINE TUNING here brings it up because it relates to topics extremely relevant to church music: learning by ear, learning through a score, interpreting a score, folk music, and playing by heart. The answer for all musicians, whether a score is used or not, is to play. With th...
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Fine Tuning: June 2011
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Thursday, June 16, 2011. Some things never change - like Cantors' struggles to nurture the Lord's song in this strange land. Here's a short article from a 1904 Lutheran Observer. Music In the Sunday School" by H. W. Siegrist. Of Lebanon, PA). From many churches comes up the cry, "We have such poor congregational singing, and we cannot account for it! Pratt, Professor of Music and Hymnology. At Hartford Theologi...
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Fine Tuning: Sticker Day!
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Sticker. So not only did these little stickers result in a fabulous rehearsal, but they helped further educate the parents about all that we do in choir! We won't have "sticker day" for every rehearsal, but I will certainly be using this idea more often in the future. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Stephen R. Johnson. Subscribe To Fine Tuning. Music and Liturgy Sites. After we finishe...
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Fine Tuning: April 2011
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Conversation and information about music and liturgy from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. And now - for something completely different - I'll blog about blogging about this? A Round Unvarnish'd Tale: "Lamb of God" Like You Haven't Heard It Before. A Round Unvarnish'd Tale: "Lamb of God" Like You Haven't Heard It Before. And here is a video of my arrangement of "Lamb of God", with commentary by my wife, Cheryl. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Stephen R. Johnson. Protocol Agreemen...
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