Recently Published Advent, Christmas, Epiphany Anthems Dr. Robert C. Mann, Resource Library Director Church Music Institute ADVENT “Lift Up Your Heads.” Williamson, Richard A. SATB. Oxford University Press, easy. “Thou Shalt Know Him.” Sirett, Mark. SATB. Augsburg, moderate “Virga Jesse Flourit.” Miller, Michael Austin. SATB. OUP, moderate CHRISTMAS EVE, CHRISTMAS DAY, CHRISTMAS “Angel Alleluias.” Bullard, […]

The CMI music database, both in its choral and organ music iterations, exists to alleviate the stress on worship planners resulting from their responsibilities to curate a congregation’s liturgical, singing life. If you are a member and want to see what the database can do, or even if you are not a member and are […]

O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music by Andrew Gant University of Chicago Press, 2017 454 pp. $35.00 Reviewed by Dr. Robert Mann, Church Music Institute “Church music tells us who we are and where we came from.” Gant’s survey is a history of church music used in worship in England, […]

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Meditation and Musical Applications Benjamin A. Kolodziej Joachim Neander (1650-1680), a German Calvinist, composed the text to the hymn “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,” which, in the words of John Julian, stands as “A magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest production of its author, and […]

IT WAS A RECORD SUMMER! In Texas we often talk about record heat, but in this case the record was attendance at Church Music Institute events and the quality and enthusiasm of the presenters and attendees! Here are some highlights of CMI workshops in Dallas and Portland: • Attendance increased by 50%. • The congregation’s […]