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Language Translation In Localizing Religious Musical Practice, John Macinnis, Jeremy Perigo

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The focus of this Special Issue is language translation in the process of localizing religious musical practice. As an alternative to related concepts (such as contextualization and indigenization), musical localization is presented by ethnomusicologists Monique Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, and Zoe Sherinian in Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Routledge, 2018) as an effective way to account for the complex, diverse, and shifting ways in which religious communities embody what it means to be local through their musical practices: "Musical localization is the process by which Christian communities take a variety of musical practices - some considered 'indigenous, …

Introduction To Special Issue “Language Translation In Localizing Religious Musical Practice”, John Macinnis

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The inspiration and starting place for this Special Issue was the book Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Routledge 2018), edited by Monique Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, and Zoe Sherinian.

De Profundis: Deep Personal Grief Precipitates Musical Masterpieces, Karen A. Demol

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Beyond Translated Vs. Indigenous: Turkish Protestant Christian Hymnody As Global And Local Identity, Jeremy Perigo

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At Turkey’s first national worship conferences in 2011, a passionate debate arose on whether Western music or indigenous Turkish music was most appropriate for worship. Some Turks felt that the Western missionaries were imposing indigenous musics on Turks as a type of “reverse colonization”. They felt that the current Western musical styles were best for worship. One Turk stated, “the saz is being forced down our throats”. Other Turks felt liberated to sing and play songs in traditional Turkish musical styles. The debate at the conference highlights the desire of missionaries and Turks to see renewal in congregational hymnody. Nevertheless, …

Fostering Cultural Inclusivity In Our Church Music, John Macinnis

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"Openness to hearing, engaging, and loving other cultures is not a musical issue; it is a heart issue."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­musical variety in corporate worship from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/fostering-cultural-inclusivity-in-our-church-music/

Estate Planning: Psalms And Hymns For A Lifetime, Karen Demol

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"Singing classics of the faith that have been 'keepers' for decades and centuries enables the various generations within a congregation to sing together, strongly."

Posting about the rich heritage of classic hymns from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/estate-planning-psalms-and-hymns-for-a-lifetime/

Church Music In The Current Technological Age, Jonathan De Groot

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"As hymn books dissolve into digital catalogs and organs morph into macbooks, what do we make of the source of our songs?"

Posting about changes in worship music from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/church-music-in-the-current-technological-age/

Q + A With Derek Webb, Luke Hawley

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"I don’t know how many songs I’ve written but it’s still a completely unfamiliar process to me."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­an interview with music industry veteran Derek Webb from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/qa-with-derek-webb/

Teaching Music In The Reformed/Calvinist Tradition, John Macinnis

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Editor’s Note: This article (© 2017 by the author) was submitted for possible open access publication under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). It was first published in Religions on March 31, 2017, in the Special Issue Teaching the Reformations and was edited for that publication by academic editor Christopher Metress.

Countdown, Howard Schaap

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On Cultivating Excellent Rehearsals, Bradley Jay Miedema

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Fair Land, God-Given Heritage: Satb Choir, Dale Grotenhuis

Choral Arrangements and Compositions

5 pages.

Hildegard Of Bingen And Musical Reception: The Modern Revival Of A Medieval Composer (Book Review), John Macinnis

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Reviewed Title: Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of a Medieval Composer by Jennifer Bain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 235 pp. ISBN: 9781107076662.

"A Medium For Meeting God": C.S. Lewis And Music (Especially Wagner), John Macinnis

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This essay will survey Lewis’s writings and outline the development of his aesthetic ideas in relation to music, emphasizing his enjoyment of Wagner and explaining nuanced references to Wagner throughout Lewis’s works. Moreover, this essay will describe how Lewis’s ideas about God advanced in counterpoint to his ideas about music and how Lewis came to eventually conclude that music is a medium for meeting God. To conclude, I share ways in which Lewis’s ideas have influenced and strengthened my own teaching of Wagner in Music History and Literature classes.

What Makes Music Christian?, John Macinnis

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"Music, cultivated as it should be, awakens our senses and our understanding of what is possible in this good world."

Posting about defining Christian music from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/what-makes-music-christian/

Political World Of Bob Dylan, Jeff Taylor, Chad Israelson

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According to Bob Dylan, we live in what his 1989 song calls a “Political World.” He is correct. But what does this mean? And what is Dylan’s relation to his world?

Mendelssohn, The Organ, And The Music Of The Past: Constructing Historical Legacies (Book Review), John Macinnis

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Reviewed Title: Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past: Constructing Historical Legacies by Jurgen Thym. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. 339 pp. ISBN: 9781580464741.

The Art Of Rock And Roll Memoir, Howard Schaap

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Vermeer Music Manuscript, Karen Demol

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Information about the gift of a page from a16th century illustrated music manuscript which was given to Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and housed in the John and Louise Hulst Library.

Praise Him With Organs: A History Of The Casavant Organ At Dordt College, Joan Ringerwole

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Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, is home to a magnificent three-manual tracker-action organ built by Casavant Frères in 1979. For some thirty-five years, this organ has served the college and its students, campus and area communities, and guest artists well. This illustrated history of the organ describes the selection, installation, and specifications of the instrument. It also includes the comments of a variety of guest organists and details the recently-instituted Joan Ringerwole Organ Recital Series.

Interreferentiality Of Music, Soul, And Cosmos In Eriugena's Commentary On Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis, Book I, John Macinnis

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Get On Your Knees And Fight Like A Man: Shifting From World Peace To Spiritual Warfare In Contemporary Christian Music, Scott Culpepper

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Augustine’S De Musica In The 21st Century Music Classroom, John Macinnis

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Augustine’s De musica is all that remains of his ambitious plan to write a cycle of works describing each of the liberal arts in terms of Christian faith and is actually unfinished; whereas the six books extant today primarily examine rhythm, Augustine intended to write about melody also. The sixth book of De musica was better known in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages than the first five, and it takes up philosophical questions of aesthetics related to the proportionate ordering discernable throughout creation. After a brief introduction summarizing De musica’s content and its importance in subsequent Christian writings, my …

Karl Barth's Mozart: Lessons For Christian Music Education, John Macinnis

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The author considers Barth's thoughful and emotional engagement with Mozart's music and argues that "Christian music educators are in a special place for raising similar questions about music's contributions to human flourishing, its roles in personal progress, and the mysteries of common grace in which God's glory can be sounded from even unknowing servants."

Looking Back, Listening Forward: A New Transcription Of Leoš Janáček’S Suite For Strings For Double Wind Quintet In The Harmoniemusik Tradition, Bradley Jay Miedema

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The Harmoniemusik tradition has provided the wind chamber repertoire with a tremendous wealth of literature. Spanning the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, these transcriptions of large-scale works had a formative influence on the creative activity of subsequent composers. Most notable are the transcriptions of operas. Some include more than twenty movements and capture much of the drama and intensity of the stage versions. While the Viennese wind octet with pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns became the standard instrumentation for the properly defined Harmonie, many pieces were also arranged and composed for ensembles ranging from six to …

"The Harmony Of All Things": Music, Soul, And Cosmos In The Writings Of John Scottus Eriugena, John Macinnis

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In his prodigious philosophical work Periphyseon, the foremost intellectual of the ninth century, John Scottus Eriugena (ca. 800–877 CE), defined musica broadly and in a way that solicits interdisciplinary applications: “Music is the discipline discerning by the light of reason the harmony of all things in natural proportions which are either in motion or at rest.” In this dissertation, I trace resonances of the ars musica in Eriugena’s writings using selections from his three greatest works: Periphyseon, his glosses on Martianus Capella’s textbook De Nuptiis, and his commentary over Pseudo-Dionysius’s treatise on the Celestial Hierarchy of Angels. …

Dordt Sings! 50 Classic Hymns, Karen Demol, Jonathan De Groot

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The purpose of the 50 Classic Songs for Worship at Dordt is to present a core of classic hymns which we believe every Dordt student should know.

Bob Dylan And Antithetical Engagement With Culture, Jeff Taylor

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This article was presented by Jeff Taylor at the Christian Evasion of Popular Culture Conference at Dordt College, November 2012.

All The Way My Savior Leads Me: Piano, Dale Grotenhuis

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How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings: Piano, Dale Grotenhuis

Keyboard Arrangements and Compositions

4 pages.