Liturgical Ensemble Basics
This book addresses, with clarity and insight, the most common issues confronting today's liturgical ensembles. With chapters devoted to strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards, guitars, percussion, conducting, amplification, and more, Liturgical Ensemble Basics leaves no stone unturned. It's an indispensable guide for musicians, directors, and pastors-everyone involved in music ministry, both experienced and novice, professional and volunteer.
Contributors include well-known and highly respected experts in the field: Rev. Ronald E. Brassard; Carol Browning; Ken Canedo; Gerard Chiusano; Bobby Fisher; Dr. Dennis Fleisher; Dr. James W. Kosnik; Dr. John Pennington; Steve Petrunak; Rick Reed; M.D. Ridge; Rev. Robert J. Sandoz, OFM; and Christopher Walker. Includes essays on the "theology of ensemble" and the ministerial/liturgical role of ensembles, a wealth of musical examples, and a foreword by Jesuit Father John Foley.
ISBN 1-56929-071-7 [192 pp, 8 x 10, softbound]