After six years and thousands of submissions, the team tasked with the much-anticipated overhaul of the Latter-day Saint hymnbook announced Monday plans to release 12 songs that will appear in the ...
Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...
Stephen Jones currently works as a professor in the School of Music at BYU. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition from BYU and a master's and doctorate in music composition from ...
Does a wretch by any other name fit the tune? Modern hymn writers (in this case, re-writers) seem to think so, and adjustments to the second line of "Amazing Grace" are now relatively common. "Saved a ...
Dave Meder’s latest album isn’t the typical sort of music you’d hear in a church. But the University of North Texas music professor and jazz pianist doesn’t shy away from religious sounds or ideas in ...
Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...
Rr4444Gideon Guitar, a Nigerian-born guitarist and music minister based in the United Kingdom, has announced an intimate ...