Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Course Calendar

MU 426 – Hymnology
Winterim 2011
Daily Course Calendar


January 2-6
January 9-13

 DAY ONE

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. ix-xix Introduction

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 21-55 [Formal-Liturgical Worship – Five Responses].


3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 3-28

4. On-Line Reading: “My Grandmother saved it, My Mother Threw It Away, and Now I’m buying it back: Why Young People Are Returning to Old Hymn Texts” and “Why Hymns Are Relevant in a Postmodern World”

http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/other/RW70.pdf

http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/other/postmodernism.html

5. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition: [Hymn Name, Hymn Tune Name, Meter]

[1] “All People That on Earth Do Dwell”
[4] “All Praise to God, Who Reigns Above”
[11] “Now Blessed Be the Lord Our God”
[28] “O God, the Rock of Ages”
[34] “The God of Abraham Praise”
[53] “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
[81] “O Love of God, How Strong and True”
[108] “Whate’er My God Ordains is Right”
[116] “For the Beauty of the Earth”
[119] “I Sing the Almighty Power of God”


DAY TWO

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 1-14 Early Church Song

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 59-75 [Traditional Hymn-Based Worship]


3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 29-34

4. On-Line Reading: Margaret Clarkson, “What Is a Hymn?”

http://www.praise-and-worship.com/christian-hymns.html


Preface to Gadsby’s Hymns [1838]

http://www.truegospel.net/Gadsby/Preface.htm

5. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:

[125] “Let All Things Now Living”
[128] “God Moves in a Mysterious Way”
[162] “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
[164] “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”
[167] “When Morning Gilds the Skies”
[172] “Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder”
[181] “We Come, O Christ to You”
[183] “Awake, My Soul, in Joyful Lays”
[193] “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”
[217] “All My Heart This Night Rejoices”

6. Hymn Text Subject [Scripture] chosen

7. Blogging, Day 1

DAY THREE


1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 17-32 The Lutheran Chorale

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 76-96 [Traditional Hymn-Based Worship: Responses

3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 37-55

4. On-Line Reading: Charles Colson, “Soothing Ourselves to Death: Should we give people what they want or what they need”


http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/004/15.116.html

Gary A. Parrett, “Raising Ebenezer: We are misguided when we modernize hymn texts”


http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/001/23.62.html


5. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:

[218] “Angels, from the Realms of Glory”
[221] “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”
[225] “Once in Royal David’s City”
[226] “As With Gladness Men of Old”
[227] “On Christmas Night All Christians Sing”
[229] “Gentle Mary Laid Her Child”
[231] “Lovely Child, Holy Child”
[38] “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
[57] “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah, O My Soul”
[79] “My God, My God, O Why Have You Forsaken Me?

6. Blogging, Day 2

DAY FOUR

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 35-45 Psalmody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 99-116 [Contemporary Music-Driven Worship]


3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 57-79

4. On-Line Reading: Terry Johnson, “Why Sing the Psalms?”


http://www.arpnovascotia.com/covenant/why_psalms.htm

Grace Baptist Church of the Abingtons, Doctrinal Statement on Corporate Worship [posted on class website]

5. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:

[235] All Glory, Laud, and Honor”
[242] “Not All the Blood of Beasts”
[245] “As Jacob with Travel Was Weary One Day”
[246] “Man of Sorrows! What a Name”
[247] “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”
[254] “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed”
[257] “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted”
[249] “Hark! The Voice of Love and Mercy”
[261] “What Wondrous Love Is This”
[263] “Lift High the Cross”

6. Hymn Text [first stanza] written

7. Blogging, Day 3

DAY FIVE

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 49-61 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 117-136 [Contemporary Music-Driven Worship: Responses]

3. Hymnology, A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 81-96

4. Carl Truman, "What Can Miserable Christians Sing?" from The Wages of Spin: Critical Writings on Historic and Contemporary Evangelism [2004]

5. On-Line Reading: John Piper, “Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of the Saint: Reflections on the Life of William Cowper”


http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/biographies/insanity-and-spiritual-songs-in-the-soul-of-a-saint


6. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[266] “Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain”
[267] “The Day of Resurrection”
[268] “Welcome, Happy Morning!”
[271] “Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem”
[273] “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”
[274] “Thine Be the Glory”
[277] “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”
[278] “That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright”
[279] “Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands”
[280] “Christ Is Risen from the Dead”

7. Blogging, Day 4


DAY SIX

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 61-69; 73-76 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 139-152 [Charismatic Worship]

3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 99-120

3. On-Line Reading and Listening: Ralph Vaughan Williams talks about the English Hymnal he was asked to edit in 1904


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/vaughanwilliamsr1.shtml

Worship Together's Top 11 new worship songs of 2011
Please listen to the following songs selected by Worship Leader and rate text and tune on a scale from 1 to 10 [1 being lowest]. Be ready to give reasons for your ratings.


http://blog.worshiptogether.com/worshiptogether/2011/12/top-11-new-worship-songs-of-2011.html

"Lord I Need You" Matt Maher
"God Is Able" Hillsong Publishing
"I Lift Up My Hands" Chris Tomlin, Matt Maher, Louie Giglio
"10,000 Reasons" Matt Redman
"Here For You" Matt Redman, Matt Maher
"All My Fountains" Chris Tomlin

David W. Music, “Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? It’s Time to Put That Old Myth to Rest”


http://www.reformedworship.org/article/december-2004/why-should-devil-have-all-good-music-its-time-put-old-myth-rest

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:

[281] “I Know That My Redeemer Lives—Glory Hallelujah
[286] “Worship Christ, the Risen King!”
[288] “Jesus Christ Has Triumphed Now”
[289] “A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing”
[290] “Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise”
[302] “Come, Christians, Join to Sing”
[345] “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”
[347] “The Church’s One Foundation”
[353] “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”
[358] “For All the Saints”

5. Hymn Text [second stanza] written
Begin writing a tune [a tune that could be played and sung during BBC chapel]

6. Bloggting, Day 5


DAY SEVEN

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 76-90 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 153-171 [Charismatic Worship: Responses]

3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 120-140

4. On-line listening and reading: Worship Together's Top 11 New Worship Songs for 2011
[continue listening and evaluating]
"Never Once" Matt Redman
"Search My Heart" Hillsong United
"Always" Kristian Stanfill
"At Your Name" Tim Hughes
"Go" Hillsong United

Leonard Payton, “Congregational Singing and the Ministry of the Word”


http://www.the-highway.com/articleJuly98.html

5. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:

[363] “We Gather Together”
[378] “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face”
[381] “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
[401] “All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night”
[402] “Abide With Me: Fast Falls the Eventide”
[404] “Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear”
[405] “God, That Madest Earth and Heaven”
[420] “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing”
[427] “Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands”
[434] Lord, Thou Lov’st the Cheerful Giver”

6. Blogging, Day 6 [continue working on hymn tune]


DAY EIGHT

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 93-110 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 175-213 [Blended Worship – Five Responses]


3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 140-160


4. On-Line Reading: Joe Nesom, “Singing in the Holy Spirit”


http://www.founders.org/FJ08/article4.html

Bob Kauflin, "Defining Worship" Parts I and II


http://www.worshipmatters.com/2005/11/04/defining-worship/

5. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:

[441] “Jesus Shall Reign”
[444] “O Zion, Haste, Your Mission High Fulfilling”
[447] “Christ for the World We Sing”
[450] “So Send I You”
[461] “Not What My Hands Have Done”
[469] “How Sweet and Awesome Is the Place”
[471] “‘Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee”
[472] “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Wretched”
[492] “O Jesus, Thou Art Standing”
[494] “Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive”

6. Hymn Text [Third Stanza] written [continue working on tune]

7. Blogging, Day 7


DAY NINE

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 113-130 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 217-232 [Emerging Worship]

3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 160-176

4. On-Line Reading: Matt Redman, “The Reality of Worship”


http://www.buildingchurchleaders.com/articles/2002/music-interviews-mattredman-0702.html

Rick Warren, “Some Rules for Selecting Worship Music”

http://churchleadergazette.com/clg/2010/02/some-rules-for-selecting-music.html

5. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:

[498] “Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners”
[500] “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”
[506] “As When the Hebrew Prophet Raised”
[508] “Jesus, Lover of Mu Soul”
[518] “Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground”
[520] “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness”
[524] “Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ”
[528] “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”
[575] “Soldiers of Christ, Arise”
[580] “Lead On, O King Eternal”

6. Hymn Text [refine your hymn texts, type them, create a lead sheet and post them to the site. Bring a hard copy to class on Friday.

7. Hymn texts completed, typed, tuned and brought to class.


8. Blogging, Day 8

DAY TEN

1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 130-48 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 233-250 [Emerging Worship: Responses]

3. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings, pp. 179-215

4. Kevin DeYoung, Ten Principles for Church Song, Parts 1 and 2


http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2011/06/28/ten-principles-for-church-song-part-1/


5. Bob Kauflin, Top Ten Ways to Write a Bad Worship Song

http://www.worshipmatters.com/2008/10/21/top-ten-ways-to-write-bad-worship-
songs/

Check out resources on the blog, Bad Lyrics Make Bad Theology

http://badlyricsmakebadtheology.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-08T14:11:00-05:00&max-results=7

6. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:

[573] “Am I a Soldier of the Cross”
[597] “Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire”

[598] “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
[603] “He Who Would Valiant Be”
[604] “Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart”
[609] “Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me?”
[611] “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
[615] “Come, Ye Disconsolate, Where’er Ye Languish”
[628] “Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare”
[660] “O God beyond All Praising”

7. Blogging, DAY 9

1 comment:

  1. For Today's Hymns, Hark the Voice of Love and Mercy is 259, not 249

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