The Portland Psalter: Book One: Liturgical Years ABC

by Robert A. Hawthorne

Overview

In the time-honored tradition of church musicians who compose music for local use, Robert A. Hawthorne created these beautiful new settings of the psalms for his congregation in Oregon. They proved so singable, so sensitively rendered, and so liturgically appropriate that many who heard them felt this music should be more widely available.

The Portland Psalter: Book One, brings the first part of Hawthorne's psalter to the larger church. It contains settings for all psalms appointed for the Sunday Eucharist according to the Book of Common Prayer lectionary and the Revised Common Lectionary. Book Two contains the balance of psalm settings for the church year together with pastoral offices and ordination rites and the Easter Vigil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780898693843
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Edition description:	Gorgias Press ed.
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert A. Hawthorne is the choir director at Sunset Presbyterian Church in Beaverton, Oregon, and former minister of music at Christ Episcopal Church in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He has composed choral works for choirs in Oregon, Washington, Iowa, and Illinois. His Iron Mountain Mass, a tri-ritual (Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and Lutheran) congregational setting, is published by Oxford UniversityPress. Hawthorne is a well-known leader of music workshops on sightsinging, cantoring, and music repertoire for parish choirs of all sizes and ages.