Joyful Singing: A Story of Lutheran Sacred Music in Texas

by Benjamin A. Kolodziej

Overview

This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois., highlighting people, movements, and events that have helped to shape the course of church music among Lutherans in North America.

In this volume, Benjamin A. Kolodziej uncovers and records the story of the Lutherans who undertook the daunting and uncertain work of carving out a new life in a new land, and of the music that accompanied them. The book is rich in historical and contextual detail, and Kolodziej overcomes the difficulty of delineating different Lutheran sects--immigrants aligned to whatever iteration of the Lutheran church was available, --to tell the stories of the church's past in clear and compelling prose.

The book will be a great help to scholars, historians, and musicians alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506486178
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	201
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Benjamin A. Kolodziej is organist and choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, and is also organist at Perkins Chapel at Southern Methodist University. He holds an undergraduate degree in organ performance as well as graduate degrees in sacred music and theology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His primary organ studies have been with Robert Anderson, Larry Palmer, Richard DeLong, George Baker, and Jon Gillock. A frequent writer on topics of organ and church music, his work has been featured in national publications including The American Organist. He is a member of Faith Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Plano, Texas.

Table of Contents

About the Center for Church Music vii

Acknowledgments ix

1 Lutheran Musical Antecedents in Texas 1

2 Intertwining Fortunes: The First Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Worship in Texas 21

3 Kilian as Composer, Hymn Writer, and Liturgist 73

4 The First Pipe Organs and Early Musical Practices 91

5 Lutheran Sacred Music in the Heart of Texas 107

6 A New Direction for Advanced Sacred Music Studies in Texas 143

7 The Developing Vocation of the Church Musician 165

Epilogue 197