Melodious accord
Subtitle: good singing in church
By: Alice Parker
Publisher: GIA Publications, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781579999971
Subjects: Church music; Catholic church
Description: Singing is what liturgy sounds like and singing is what all of us can delight to do. Alice Parker has brought song to congregations that never knew they had it. As composer and arranger (her work with the Robert Shaw Chorale is known around the world), as conductor, and as teacher, she is song's champion to all of us who thought we had left the singing to the professionals. This book is the best effort to capture in print what she has to teach us about taking song from the page and the stage and amplifiers and putting it right where it belongs on every tongue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-112) and index.
Table of contents: title: The need for song; title: Good singing forges good congregations; title: Ear and eye; title: Musical space and time; title: A brief history of melody; title: Studying and teaching; title: A different view of the hymnal; title: The song leader; title: Collaboration in the community; title: Sounding space; title: Sacred song.