Alan Hommerding
Senior Liturgy Publications Editor
World Library Publications
3708 River Road, Suite 400
Franklin Park, IL 60131
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The Music Seminar devotes its sessions to discussion of liturgy and ritual music 1) through papers by members of the group, 2) around issues, projects and studies about music in rites and 3) by examining new and emerging resources, i.e., hymn collections and musical settings for liturgy.
HEATHER JOSSELYN – The Reason Why We Sing: Musical Function in Worship
JASON MCFARLAND – Mass Antiphons and the Dialectic of Liturgical Genre and Translation
VIRGIL C. FUNK – Musical Boundaries and Their Gatekeepers: Why They Are Changing
EMILY BRINK – New Resource presentation, Psalms for All Seasons
STEVEN JANCO – A Composer’s Perspective on Writing Music for a New Mass Translation
CARL F. BEAR – Sacred Harp Singing as Liturgy
Additional seminar time will be spent discussing portions of the book Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology (Jeremy Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie, eds., Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2010)