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First Place: The Ward Organist

Listen to the Out Loud audio version of this fiction piece here. Listen to the interview about this piece here. Never learn to play the organ, the old woman told me. I should call her…

Review: A Book of Verbs is Something to Hear Michael Hicks, Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music

A book of essays has an upward inflection; it sounds like a question. To essai, in French, is to attempt. To try. But this is not the essay’s reputation. Ideals of ironclad arguments, footnoted discoveries,…

The Quest for Universal Music in the LDS Children’s Songbook

Hymn #49

Singing in Harmony, Stitching in Time

From the Pulpit: The Song of the Righteous is a Prayer unto Me

Saints of Song and Speech

Hymns to the Gods

On Mormon Music and Musicians

Three Recent Tabernacle Choir Recordings

Worship and Music: Worship and Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Verena Ursenbach Hatch

Lyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo

Three Christmas Hymns: A Christmas Hymn ; The Babe of Bethlehem ; Away in a Manger

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The German Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The Japanese Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The French Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The Spanish Hymnal

Our LDS Hymn Texts: A Look at the Past, Some Thoughts for the Future

The Birth of Mormon Hymnody

The Role of Music in the Reorganized Church

Choral Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Into His Presence with Singing

Thoughts on Music and Worship

The Possibilities of Worship

A Rummage Sale with Music: The Rummage Sale: A Musical in Two Acts by Donald R. Marshall

The Millennial Hymns of Parley P. Pratt

The 1981 RLDS Hymnal: Songs More Brightly Sung

Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 33–42
About ten years ago the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints decided that its 1956 hymnal was already becoming out of date. An RLDS Hymnal Committee was commissioned to begin work on a new volume, and the result, Hymns of the Saints, was published in 1981. Hymns of the Saints is more than just a revision or reediting of the 1956 hymnal; out of 501 hymns and responses, more than a third are new to this collection.

“Great Spirit Listen”: The American Indian in Mormon Music

“A Song for One Still Voice”: Hymn of Affirmation

A Song Worth Singing: Mormonism and Music: A History by Michael Hicks

Coney Island Hymn: Shore

Changes in LDS Hymns: Implications and Opportunities

Hymn

Fiddler with a Cause: Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies by Marian Robertson Wilson

Sacrament Hymn

Day Music

Measures of Music

Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal

Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young

A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal

Requiem in L Minor

My Mother Tongues

Tao Song

Lyric of the Larks

Hymns: The Brick Church Hymnal: Extracts from an Autobiography

Personal Voices: Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection

Round Table: Now Let Us Revise

How to Be Alone with a Flute

Resolve

Legacy

Drum Major

Oye Como Va

& the day that i believe is known as pentecost to some

easter sunday : : : thinking of you all the way

o hear

the vulture-ism of the world (((since god isn’t here)))

Mormons, Musical Theater, and the Public Arena of Doubt

The Lindsey Stirling Effect

Why Mormons Sing in Parts (Or Don’t)

A Voice Crying from the Dust: The Book of Mormon as Sound

Guest Editor’s Introduction

First Place: The Ward Organist

Listen to the Out Loud audio version of this fiction piece here. Listen to the interview about this piece here. Never learn to play the organ, the old woman told me. I should call her…

Review: A Book of Verbs is Something to Hear Michael Hicks, Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music

A book of essays has an upward inflection; it sounds like a question. To essai, in French, is to attempt. To try. But this is not the essay’s reputation. Ideals of ironclad arguments, footnoted discoveries,…

The Quest for Universal Music in the LDS Children’s Songbook

Hymn #49

Singing in Harmony, Stitching in Time

From the Pulpit: The Song of the Righteous is a Prayer unto Me

Saints of Song and Speech

Hymns to the Gods

On Mormon Music and Musicians

Three Recent Tabernacle Choir Recordings

Worship and Music: Worship and Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Verena Ursenbach Hatch

Lyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo

Three Christmas Hymns: A Christmas Hymn ; The Babe of Bethlehem ; Away in a Manger

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The German Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The Japanese Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The French Hymnal

The LDS Hymnal: Views on Foreign Editions: The Spanish Hymnal

Our LDS Hymn Texts: A Look at the Past, Some Thoughts for the Future

The Birth of Mormon Hymnody

The Role of Music in the Reorganized Church

Choral Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Into His Presence with Singing

Thoughts on Music and Worship

The Possibilities of Worship

A Rummage Sale with Music: The Rummage Sale: A Musical in Two Acts by Donald R. Marshall

The Millennial Hymns of Parley P. Pratt

The 1981 RLDS Hymnal: Songs More Brightly Sung

Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 33–42
About ten years ago the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints decided that its 1956 hymnal was already becoming out of date. An RLDS Hymnal Committee was commissioned to begin work on a new volume, and the result, Hymns of the Saints, was published in 1981. Hymns of the Saints is more than just a revision or reediting of the 1956 hymnal; out of 501 hymns and responses, more than a third are new to this collection.

“Great Spirit Listen”: The American Indian in Mormon Music

“A Song for One Still Voice”: Hymn of Affirmation

A Song Worth Singing: Mormonism and Music: A History by Michael Hicks

Coney Island Hymn: Shore

Changes in LDS Hymns: Implications and Opportunities

Hymn

Fiddler with a Cause: Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies by Marian Robertson Wilson

Sacrament Hymn

Day Music

Measures of Music

Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal

Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young

A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal

Requiem in L Minor

My Mother Tongues

Tao Song

Lyric of the Larks

Hymns: The Brick Church Hymnal: Extracts from an Autobiography

Personal Voices: Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection

Round Table: Now Let Us Revise

How to Be Alone with a Flute

Resolve

Legacy

Drum Major

Oye Como Va

& the day that i believe is known as pentecost to some

easter sunday : : : thinking of you all the way

o hear

the vulture-ism of the world (((since god isn’t here)))

Mormons, Musical Theater, and the Public Arena of Doubt

The Lindsey Stirling Effect

Why Mormons Sing in Parts (Or Don’t)

A Voice Crying from the Dust: The Book of Mormon as Sound

Guest Editor’s Introduction