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Author:   Thomas H. Troeger (Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication, Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication, Yale Divinity School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 13.00cm
Weight:   0.177kg
ISBN:  

9780199330089

ISBN 10:   0199330085
Pages:   108
Publication Date:   28 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Don E. Saliers Introduction Music and the Making of Meaning Music and Metaphor When the World Falls Apart Salutary Harmonies The Great Mighty Ocean Tone Plucked from the Universe The Deeper Meaning of Inspiring Music The Whole Company of Musicians Church Organist Declared Greatest Composer How Do You Sing Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus? To What End Beauty? The Materiality of Making Music The Stone Age Ancestors of Organists Music that Can Never Be Recorded The Piece You Thought You Would Never Play How Beautiful and Astounding Are the Feet The Freedom of Constraint Silence as the Prelude to Sound The Rhetoric of Breath Before the First Note: Getting Centered Wrong Notes in a Splendid Performance Music and the Landscape of the Soul Study Tour of the Human Soul Musical Hometown An Antidote to Cognitive Imperialism The Necessity of Beauty Children of Process Escaping the Hubris of the Present Moment The Perfect Registration Music for Facing Temptation and Wild Beasts Season of Lament Unacknowledged Healing Plain and Simple, Rich and Complex A Gigue for Everyone to Dance Music for the Seasons of Faith Waiting as Blessing Rehearsing for an Epiphany A New Song for Christmas? Song that Blesses Earth New Year's Resolution: Not Exactly as the Composer Wanted Music Born of Resurrection

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Troeger offers a gift both to those who play the organ and those who enjoy the contribution of music to worship. In these pages we move beyond the sound of music for aesthetic enrichment or entertainment to the experience of musical artistry as a transforming spiritual force in our lives. * C. Michael Hawn, Perkins School of Music, Southern Methodist University *

Troeger offers a gift both to those who play the organ and those who enjoy the contribution of music to worship. In these pages we move beyond the sound of music for aesthetic enrichment or entertainment to the experience of musical artistry as a transforming spiritual force in our lives. -C. Michael Hawn, Perkins School of Music, Southern Methodist University A compelling testimony to the manifold pastoral dimensions of the church musician's role! Theologian, poet, and musician, Prof. Troeger affirms the potential for deep empathy between clergy and musicians. A must read for all pastors and church musicians! -John Walker, Minister of Music Emeritus, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore Tom Troeger, this flutist, hymn-writer, teacher, preacher and story-teller, has written words of wonder and eloquence about music in worship that will inspire and inform all who sit or stand in pew, pulpit or organ bench. -Robin A Leaver, Yale Institute of Sacred Music In these beautifully written reflections and with a sensitive voice that captures the truth through personal anecdote, Thomas Troeger offers an exquisite endorsement of the pipe organ and of church music. He reminds us of the continuing centrality of instrument and voice in the liturgical life of the Church. -Bruce Neswick, Associate Professor of Organ, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music In Music as Prayer, pastor and musician Thomas H. Troeger invites the reader to cherish and engage in music as an act of prayer. Taking into account the metaphorical, scientific, and practical aspects of music-making Troeger illustrates the power of music to not only fill a space but to also clear a way for meaning and creativity. - Sophia Har, Sojourners

"""[A] delightful book. Troeger is a poet and a musician, and Music as Prayer is a book about music that reads musically....The volume would make for a terrific series of devotionals for a church choir or music committee. Even its brevity seems to acknowledge that the reader would benefit from putting down the book and picking up a hymnal or an instrument. Church music is wonderful to read and write about, but, truly, it is meant to be made. Music as Prayer equips us all to do just that.""--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology ""Troeger offers a gift both to those who play the organ and those who enjoy the contribution of music to worship. In these pages we move beyond the sound of music for aesthetic enrichment or entertainment to the experience of musical artistry as a transforming spiritual force in our lives.""-C. Michael Hawn, Perkins School of Music, Southern Methodist University ""A compelling testimony to the manifold pastoral dimensions of the church musician's role! Theologian, poet, and musician, Prof. Troeger affirms the potential for deep empathy between clergy and musicians. A must read for all pastors and church musicians!""-John Walker, Minister of Music Emeritus, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore ""Tom Troeger, this flutist, hymn-writer, teacher, preacher and story-teller, has written words of wonder and eloquence about music in worship that will inspire and inform all who sit or stand in pew, pulpit or organ bench.""-Robin A Leaver, Yale Institute of Sacred Music ""In these beautifully written reflections and with a sensitive voice that captures the truth through personal anecdote, Thomas Troeger offers an exquisite endorsement of the pipe organ and of church music. He reminds us of the continuing centrality of instrument and voice in the liturgical life of the Church.""-Bruce Neswick, Associate Professor of Organ, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music ""In Music as Prayer, pastor and musician Thomas H. Troeger invites the reader to cherish and engage in music as an act of prayer. Taking into account the metaphorical, scientific, and practical aspects of music-making Troeger illustrates the power of music to not only fill a space but to also clear a way for meaning and creativity."" - Sophia Har, Sojourners"

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Thomas H. Troeger studied to become a flutist but under the impact of a great preacher, he decided to prepare for the ministry. A pastor for seven years, he then began teaching homiletics, hymnody, and liturgics. His scholarship has focused on the role of the imagination in preaching and worship, and his creative work includes hymns and lyric poems.

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