Daily Course Calendar

MU 426 – Hymnology
Summer School 2009
Daily Course Calendar
May 11-15 – May 18-22

Day One
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. ix-xix Introduction

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 21-55 [Formal-Liturgical Worship – Five Responses].

3. On-Line Reading: “My Grandmother saved it, My Mother Threw It Away, and Now I’m buying it back: Why Young People Are Returning to Old Hymn Texts”
“Why Hymns Are Relevant in a Postmodern World”
http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/other/postmodernism.html
http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/other/RW70.pdf

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition: [Hymn Name, Hymn Tune Name, Meter]
[1] “All People That on Earth Do Dwell”
[4] “All Praise to God, Who Reigns Above”
[11] “Now Blessed Be the Lord Our God”
[28] “O God, the Rock of Ages”
[34] “The God of Abraham Praise”
[53] “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
[81] “O Love of God, How Strong and True”
[108] “Whate’er My God Ordains is Right”
[116] “For the Beauty of the Earth”
[119] “I Sing the Almighty Power of God”

Day Two
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 1-14 Early Church Song

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 59-75 [Traditional Hymn-Based Worship]


3. On-Line Reading: Margaret Clarkson, “What Is a Hymn?”
http://www.reformedworship.org/magazine/article.cfm?article_id=201
Preface to Gadsby’s Hymns [1838]
http://website.lineone.net/~gsward/gadsbyhymns/gadsby/gadsbypreface.htm

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[125] “Let All Things Now Living”
[128] “God Moves in a Mysterious Way”
[162] “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
[164] “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”
[167] “When Morning Gilds the Skies”
[172] “Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder”
[181] “We Come, O Christ to You”
[183] “Awake, My Soul, in Joyful Lays”
[193] “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”
[217] “All My Heart This Night Rejoices”

5. Hymn Text Subject [Scripture] chosen

6. Blog Journaling Day 1

Day Three
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 17-32 The Lutheran Chorale

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 76-96 [Traditional Hymn-Based Worship: Responses

3. On-Line Reading: Charles Colson, “Soothing Ourselves to Death: Should we give people what they want or what they need”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/004/15.116.html
Gary A. Parrett, “Raising Ebenezer: We are misguided when we modernize hymn texts” http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/001/23.62.html

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[218] “Angels, from the Realms of Glory”
[221] “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”
[225] “Once in Royal David’s City”
[226] “As With Gladness Men of Old”
[227] “On Christmas Night All Christians Sing”
[229] “Gentle Mary Laid Her Child”
[231] “Lovely Child, Holy Child”
[38] “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
[57] “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah, O My Soul”
[79] “My God, My God, O Why Have You Forsaken Me?

6. Blog Journaling Day 2

Day Four
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 35-45 Psalmody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 99-116 [Contemporary Music-Driven Worship]

3. On-Line Reading: Terry Johnson, “Why Sing the Psalms?”
http://www.arpnovascotia.com/covenant/why_psalms.htm
David Harris/Larry Kauffman, Grace Baptist Church – Proposed Draft on Corporate Worship for Doctrinal Statement Paragraph XVIII

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[235] All Glory, Laud, and Honor”
[242] “Not All the Blood of Beasts”
[245] “As Jacob with Travel Was Weary One Day”
[246] “Man of Sorrows! What a Name”
[247] “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”
[254] “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed”
[257] “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted”
[249] “Hark! The Voice of Love and Mercy”
[261] “What Wondrous Love Is This”
[263] “Lift High the Cross”

5. Hymn Text [first stanza] written

6. Blog Journaling Day 3


Day Five
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 49-61 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 117-136 [Contemporary Music-Driven Worship: Responses]

3. On-Line Reading: John Piper, “Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of the Saint: Reflections on the Life of William Cowper”
http://www.desiringgod.org/library/biographies/92cowper.html

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[266] “Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain”
[267] “The Day of Resurrection”
[268] “Welcome, Happy Morning!”
[271] “Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem”
[273] “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”
[274] “Thine Be the Glory”
[277] “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”
[278] “That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright”
[279] “Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands”
[280] “Christ Is Risen from the Dead”

6. Blog Journaling Day 4

Day Six
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 61-69; 73-76 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 139-152 [Charismatic Worship]


3. On-Line Reading and Listening: Ralph Vaughan Williams talks about the English Hymnal he was asked to edit in 1904 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/vaughanwilliamsr1.shtml
William Gadsby, Why Did Christ Die?”
http://www.grace-for-today.com/1154.htm
William Gadsby, From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gadsby
David W. Music, “Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? It’s Time to Put That Old Myth to Rest”
http://www.reformedworship.org/magazine/article.cfm?article_id=1362

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[281] “I Know That My Redeemer Lives—Glory Hallelujah
[286] “Worship Christ, the Risen King!”
[288] “Jesus Christ Has Triumphed Now”
[289] “A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing”
[290] “Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise”
[302] “Come, Christians, Join to Sing”
[345] “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”
[347] “The Church’s One Foundation”
[353] “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”
[358] “For All the Saints”

5. Hymn Text [second stanza] written

6. Blog Journaling Day 5

Day Seven
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 76-90 British Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 153-171 [Charismatic Worship: Responses]

3. On-Line Reading: Leonard Payton, “Congregational Singing and the Ministry of the Word” http://www.the-highway.com/articleJuly98.html

4. Trinity Hymnal Hymn Listening Recognition:
[363] “We Gather Together”
[378] “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face”
[381] “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
[401] “All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night”
[402] “Abide With Me: Fast Falls the Eventide”
[404] “Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear”
[405] “God, That Madest Earth and Heaven”
[420] “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing”
[427] “Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands”
[434] Lord, Thou Lov’st the Cheerful Giver”

6. Blog Journaling Day 6

Day Eight
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 93-110 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 175-213 [Blended Worship – Five Responses]

3. On-Line Reading: Joe Nesom, “Singing in the Holy Spirit”
http://www.founders.org/FJ08/article4.html
Bob Kauflin, “Some Reflections on ‘Together for the Gospel’”
http://www.worshipmatters.com/bobkauflin/2006/04/some_reflection.html

4. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:
[441] “Jesus Shall Reign”
[444] “O Zion, Haste, Your Mission High Fulfilling”
[447] “Christ for the World We Sing”
[450] “So Send I You”
[461] “Not What My Hands Have Done”
[469] “How Sweet and Awesome Is the Place”
[471] “‘Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee”
[472] “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Wretched”
[492] “O Jesus, Thou Art Standing”
[494] “Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive”

5. Hymn Text [Third Stanza] written

6. Blog Journaling Day 7

Day Nine
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 113-130 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 217-232 [Emerging Worship]

3. On-Line Reading: Matt Redman, “The Reality of Worship”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/interviews/mattredman-0702.html
Rick Warren, “Selecting Worship Music”
http://www.pastorport.com/ministrytoday.asp?mode=viewarchive&index=18

4. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:
[498] “Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners”
[500] “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”
[506] “As When the Hebrew Prophet Raised”
[508] “Jesus, Lover of Mu Soul”
[518] “Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground”
[520] “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness”
[524] “Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ”
[528] “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”
[575] “Soldiers of Christ, Arise”
[580] “Lead On, O King Eternal”

5. Hymn Text [refine your hymn texts, type them, and post them to the site. Bring a hard copy to class on Friday.
http://hymnologicaleffulgence.blogspot.com/

6. Blog Journaling Day 8

Day Ten
1. Reynolds/Price/Music, pp. 130-48 American Hymnody

2. Exploring the Worship Spectrum, pp. 233-250 [Emerging Worship: Responses]

3. On-Line Reading [Recapitulation] Kevin Twit, “Why Are Hymns Relevant in a Post-Modern World”
http://www.igracemusic.com/hymnbook/other/postmodernism.html

4. Trinity Hymnal Listening Recognition:
[573] “Am I a Soldier of the Cross”
[597] “Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire”
[598] “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
[603] “He Who Would Valiant Be”
[604] “Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart”
[609] “Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me?”
[611] “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
[615] “Come, Ye Disconsolate, Where’er Ye Languish”
[628] “Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare”
[660] “O God beyond All Praising”

5. Hymn texts completed, typed, and brought to class.

6. Hymn texts completed, typed, and brought to class.