Music Leadership In Worship
Music is such a powerful force because it is created and recreated in the midst of a group of people who join together to express common thoughts, emotions, and prayers. In addition to careful planning, the use of music in worship requires skilled and sensitive musical leadership. The persons who fill this role should be both trained and well-rehearsed musicians, able to lend confidence to the singing of all worshipers and also spiritual leaders in the community, able to lead in worship by example. The following entries use these twin ideals to describe the various ministries of musical leadership in the church, including the roles of the music director, composer, cantor, and choir.…
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Chapters & Articles in Music Leadership In Worship (9)
Musical leadership is a great challenge, with musical and pastoral demands. It is also a great privilege, with oppo…
Excellence is not a negotiable quality for church music: our worship of God demands our very best. This premise ext…
Accompanying congregational singing is an extraordinary challenge, requiring careful practice and disciplined creat…
The choir does not participate in worship for its own sake, but rather for the sake of the whole of the worshiping …
Choirs play very different roles in various denominations and traditions. This article describes three different ty…
Children's choirs need not be relegated to simply providing entertainment in worship. Instead, they should function…
A vocal soloist can function in much the same way as a choir, leading the people's song and presenting additional m…
The cantor played an important role in biblical and ancient worship. The role of the cantor is being recovered in c…
A cantor or lead singer must master more than simply the music of the liturgy. For as worship leader, the cantor ha…