The Psalmist’s Harp, and other worship links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship -- “List of Tunes Suitable to the Different Metres.”
• Bound Together: What Makes an Effective Pairing of Text and Tune -- “Instead of painting the emotions in the text, I have found that a Sacred Harp tune more often uses melodic shape, rhythm, and even harmony to accentuate important words in the poetry.”
• Buck Morton Passes Away -- “...Dr. Buck Morton, former longtime emcee of the National Quartet Convention, passed away the evening of Nov. 25 at his home.”
• Faithless Music? The Belief in a Transcendent God Requires Objective Beauty -- “The words of creation, providence, and conscience match the Words of God in scripture.  Values are transcendent and the scripture, which reflects natural law, manifests those in categories of truth, goodness, and beauty.”
• National Sacred Harp Newsletter, 1985–1993 -- “Coinciding with the launch of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter, the Sacred Harp Museum is digitizing and making accessible the first issues of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter, which was published by the company from 1985–1993.”
• Notes on Repairing Songbooks -- “As these books are both beloved and heavily used I teach conservation methods: aiming to preserve the songbooks for generations to come, whilst still getting daily use out of them.”
• Praise & Glory -- “A Selection of the Psalms of David set to the Metrical Psalm Tunes used by West Gallery Quires, 1740 - 1860.”
• Presenting: The Psalmist’s Harp -- “It gives me great pleasure to announce that the First Electronic Edition of The Psalmist’s Harp is now available!”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: Early American Revival -- “Along with German Pietism, revival in early America contributed to what would become distinctive Evangelical worship.”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: German Pietism -- “Pietist Johann Samuel Stryk (1668–1715) described church music in the early eighteenth century as (1) contrary to the genius of the New Testament church, and not agreeing with the example of the primitive church...”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: The Oxford Movement -- “Musically, the Oxford Movement produced three primary contributions.”
• The Continuous Practice of Sin in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism with Its Music -- “Music not only expresses meaning, but it also arouses or influences other impressions upon its listener.”
• The Psalms in Worship: a Series of Convention Papers Bearing Upon the Place of the Psalms in the Worship of the Church -- “In Ephesians the ‘speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs’ is the sequel of being ‘filled with the Spirit’.”