Music-Religious-Contemporary Christian

For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty...

Pastors Worship Team Leaders Vocalists & Instrumentalists Sound People Do You Want Your Worship Team to . . . * get the most out of rehearsal time? * craft a professional sound, even with just a few instruments? * cultivate the 10 most important...

(Easy Piano Songbook). Simplified arrangements of 76 contemporary worship favorites are included in this updated 2nd edition: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Blessed Be Your Name * Christ Is Risen * Do It Again * Everlasting God * Friend of God *...

Born from eight years of teaching songwriting for the Academy of Gospel Music Arts, Robert Sterling's The Craft of Christian Songwriting deftly tackles the much-overlooked subject of craft in the Christian songwriter's creative process. The book challenges its readers to aspire to the highest...

(Worship Musician Presents). As opposed to a systematic pedagogy for bass playing (many such resources already exist), The Worship Bass Book is a fun and informal, yet extremely practical, resource for bassists playing in the worship environment. Acclaimed bassist and music educator Norm Stockton...

Psalms 11-20 is the second volume in a project to set all 150 Psalms to music. The Psalms teach us how to think and feel about God, often in ways that aren't natural for sinners like us. This set of Psalms teaches us that...

Contemporary worship music is ubiquitous in many Protestant Christian communities today. Rather than debating or decrying this post-worship-wars reality, David Lemley accepts it as a premise and examines what it means for us to be singing along with songs that aren't so different from...

Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular music? In God Rock,...

Discover the Power in Praise that Transforms Your Life When your life is turned upside-down and your faith is sent reeling, what do you do? How do you find your way to solid ground again? How do you find the courage to move forward...

(Guitar Collection). More than two dozen Christian hits that guitarists can play using just four chords Includes: All We Need * Ancient Words * Awesome God * Breathe * Everyday * Forever * I Will Rise * Love the Lord * No One like...

Christians sing because we are people of hope.Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope is uniquely shaped by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and by the promise of our...

This should be the quest of every worshipper - to release His song over the nations to see revival and breakthrough.In this workbook you will discover how to release the the prophetic song with power and authority. With Biblical application, personal examples and practical...

In Singing the Glory Down, William Lynwood Montell contributes to a fuller understanding of twentieth-century American culture by examining the complex relationships between gospel music and the culture of the nineteen-county study area in which this music has flourished for a hundred years. He...

Is it possible for our faith in God to deepen despite loss, heartache, struggle, and pain? Worship leader and recording artist Laura Story's life testifies that God doesn't promise to save us from all hardship. No matter how hard we pray, sometimes our circumstances...

In Praise Him While You Wait, Dr. Brenda Jefferson shares key insights on how praise anchors you in turbulent waters, restores your hope, and grants you peace in the midst of any storm. As you intentionally praise, God will remind you of His promises...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). All 10 songs from the 2008 holiday release by this Grammy- and Dove Award-winning Christian group: Away in a Manger * Christmas Offering * God Is with Us * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * Joy to the World...

Late in the Reagan years, three young men at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University formed the Christian rap group dc Talk. The trio put out a series of records that quickly secured their place at the forefront of contemporary Christian music. But, with their fourth...

(Shawnee Press). Winds of Praise is a uniquely flexible collection for solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets and more Each arrangement can be performed unaccompanied, or accompanied using the piano accompaniments in the piano/score book, or by using the orchestrated StudioTrax CD that is...

For forty years, singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been writing beautifully evocative music. Bestselling author and respected theologian Brian Walsh has followed Cockburn's work for years and has written and spoken often on his art. In this creative theological and cultural engagement, Walsh...

Andrew Strom is an international author and speaker - as well as a bass guitarist with a long history of involvement in Christian music, video, promotion, recording, and Youth ministry. In this hard-hitting book he asks some very pointed questions about today's Christian music...

Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the...

Zion Still Sings! Pulls together a vibrant collection of songs and hymns from many sources: African American spirituals Black gospel Traditional hymns New hymns published in the 21st century Urban rap Hip Hop This collection of favorites is also the first publication to include...

"Christian musicians know of the obligation to make music as agents of God's grace. They make music graciously, whatever its kind or style, as ambassadors of Christ, showing love, humility, servanthood, meekness, victory, and good example . . . Music is freely made, by...

Are you passionate about worship? Do you long to write songs that tough God's heart and bless His people?Based on his years of experience, Matt McChlery explores the elusive art of songwriting within a Christian context in a practical and inspirational way. 'Songcraft' is...

The Beatles, the Bible and Bodega Bay presents two portraits: the young man in London on top of the Apple building (and on top of the world!) as he watches the Beatles perform for the last time, and the older man on a remote...

(Easy Piano Personality). The All Music Guides raves that Tomlin's fourth CD, "is the one that firmly seals his place as the ultimate innovator in P&W music." Our songbook features easy arrangements for all 11 songs: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Everlasting...

-Do you really care to know the root causes of your challenges in life?-Do you know that evil or cursed foundation can ruin everything you are trying to build?-Do you know for sure what is fighting you or what you are fighting against in...

Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular music? In God Rock,...

The essays in this book, by distinguished musicologists, teachers, and church musicians, reflect the Lutheran musical heritage of the church and contribute new insights into the vibrant and diverse traditions of twenty-first century church music. Thine the Amen is a practical, instructional, and scholarly...

"A treasure trove of experience from a woman who learned by tooth-gritting determination how to become a home maker, wife, mother and host to a world in need of love and care." - Carol Owens, renowned author and songwriter "When you read 'Please Help...

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This folio features 16 of Kirk Franklin's most popular gospel hits from throughout his career: Declaration (This Is It) * Help Me Believe * I Smile * Lean on Me * Looking for You * Jesus * Now Behold the Lamb...

Chasing Me Down is a book that beaks down the heart-felt, God-inspired verses of this recorded song. It is clear to the reader that the words to this song were not selected to insure a successful prose - but words that came from a...

In tracing theological approaches to music in the era between Luther and Bach, the author reveals the variety and tension in German Lutheran theology. Both dogmatism and devotionalism helped shape Lutheran spirituality. The introduction of Italian Baroque style into church music, however, evoked controversies...

How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous...

B&W photos and illustrations throughoutAuthor: Carl AlbrechtISBN-10: 1476814155ISBN-13: 9781476814155Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2014Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d

(Easy Piano Songbook). Twenty favorites beautifully arranged into ten easy piano medleys. Includes: Awesome Is the Lord Most High / Awesome God * Beautiful One / Oh Lord, You're Beautiful * Days of Elijah / Ancient of Days * Lord Most High / He...

(Easy Fake Book). This superb entry-level fake book features 100 Christian hits, all in the key of C with simplified chords and easy-to-read, large music notation. Includes: Abba (Father) * All Because of Jesus * Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Awesome God...

You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it's a huge job. And it's an important job - one which requires you to have your head around both...

At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and...

How one family's tragedy ultimately revolutionized contemporary Christian music. Known for such classics as "Easter Song," the Second Chapter of Acts was one of the major music groups in the forefront of the Jesus movement. But what happened, in the wake of personal tragedy,...

Since her death in 1179, Hildegard of Bingen has commanded attention in every century. In this book Jennifer Bain traces the historical reception of Hildegard, focusing particularly on the moment in the modern era when she began to be considered as a composer. Bain...

"Was there life before Contemporary Christian Music?" is a question that few under the age of 40 are able to answer with any certainty today. The so-called "worship wars" of recent years have polarised opinion and split congregations. Not that this should surprise us....