Besides the wealth of choral music, there is an enormous repertoire of
church organ music, although quartets used to be more common, and today the guitar and other instruments are sometimes used in worship.
Not exact matches
The Lords Supper does not have to be observed in a
church building with stained glass and
organ music.
For the past 400 years
church music has been shaped by the
organ.
Some
churches have no
music at all, some have an
organ, some have a choir, some have a guitar and some have a full band.
What do praise bands and
church orchestras and multi-rank pipe
organs and grand pianos and choir robes and
music folders and the search and purchase of new
music and multi-line PA systems and multi-screen video systems and live broadcasts and rehearsal time and
church bulletins and advertising have to do with living and sharing the Good News?
For instance, the
Church of Christ, a fundamentalist group strong in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas, rejects
organ and piano
music in worship because there is no warrant for it in the New Testament.
Though
organ and / or piano
music is a staple in 92 percent of the
churches, 75 to 80 percent report using some combination of electronic keyboards, guitars and drums.
What do praise bands and
church orchestras and bell choirs and octaves of tuned bells and multi-rank pipe
organs and grand pianos and synthesizers and adult choirs and children choirs and choir auditions and choir robes and
music folders and the search and review and selection analysis and purchase of new
music and multi-line PA systems and multi-screen video systems and live broadcasts and recorded broadcasts and hours of rehearsal time and
church bulletins and
church bulletin art work and
church bulletin paper and designer fonts and newsletters and mailing lists and advertising and advertising placement and multi-media web sites and visits by unique IP addresses and the use of and the presence on new media have to do with living and sharing the Good News?
So on Sunday morning, in a great city
church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring
music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an
organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.
Cuomo's casket, draped in a New York State flag, was carried into the
church as the
organ played
music from Antonin Dvorak's «New World Symphony.»
Music is very important to me, too, as I play the piano and
organ in my
church, along...
There is no
music in the film, save for
church singing, until the
church organ is fixed.
Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled
music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins»
music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic
church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original
music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»
For THE DREAM CHILD, Jay Ferguson delivers a synth - heavy score with nods to fairground
music and layers of
church organs and weird choral samples.
Each Sunday we were lulled into a nondenominational oblivion by the
church's soporific organ music, and it was here, in the light - filled, stained - glass chapel of the Westminister Presbyterian Church, that I discovered something far more commanding than the gist of any s
church's soporific
organ music, and it was here, in the light - filled, stained - glass chapel of the Westminister Presbyterian
Church, that I discovered something far more commanding than the gist of any s
Church, that I discovered something far more commanding than the gist of any sermon.
The instruments are ragtag concoctions that would make Rube Goldberg beam: A spiraling staircase that oozes
music from
organ parts saved from a Katrina - flooded
church; industrial fans converted into percussive sound machines; a giant stand - up bass made of a weed - whacker and a bathtub; a weather station connected to an analog synthesizer.
People might not know my undergraduate degree was in
music education, that the pipe
organ was my major instrument, that I used to be a
music teacher, and that I was a
church organist for about 10 years before I went back to law school.