This article is an excerpt from "Handbook for Cantors" (3rd ed.). You can find more information about this title at the end of the article. You will occasionally need to introduce new material to the assembly before the liturgy begins. Specific details of how...
Musical Leadership
Highlights from “Unbound,” Lent (Year B)
Join GIA Editor for Congregational Song Adam M. L. Tice as he explores texts for the season of Lent (Year B). For specific resources referenced in this video, please see the links below. Visit GIA's Unbound project for more hymns, texts, and resources. New Songs for...
El panorama cambiante de la Iglesia católica en Estados Unidos: El cuidado de los dolientes, fervor por el desarrollo
De vez en cuando, directores de música amigos míos expresan frustración cuando los fieles se enojan abiertamente si los cantos de la Misa se entonan en otro idioma que no sea el inglés. Con frecuencia, el culpable de esta reacción de enojo es un canto nuevo...
We Are What We Sing: The Formational Power of Congregational Song
As pastoral musicians, we are like curators of a vast and varied treasury of congregational song. That treasury includes texts and tunes from across centuries of the Church’s life that express the full range of Christian experience and represent diverse cultural and...
5/4 Celebrating Mentorship Month
By Tim Sharp By Colleen M. Conway, Michael V. Smith, and Thomas M. Hodgman By Ramona M. Wis By Tim Lautzenheiser By Scott Lang
Getting Organized, Getting Ahead
GIA’s Senior Project Editor Michael Silhavy shares some of the organizational tasks and strategies he’s working toward in his music ministry.
Making Great Music with Limited Forces
This article first appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of GIA Quarterly magazine. Author’s Note: Publication production schedules being what they are, I’m writing this article as we sail into the 12th week of state-imposed quarantine in response to the COVID-19...
Amplify Possibility: Enlisting Young People for the Ministry of Cantor
January is National Mentorship Month. This article, originally published in the Summer 2020 issue of GIA Quarterly, is shared as part of our month-long focus on mentorship. FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS, I have recruited and trained people from teenagers to elders for the...
Back to Ordinary Time
An overview of principal themes with hymn suggestions
Reading Hymn Texts as Poetry
Join GIA Editor for Congregational Song Adam M. L. Tice as he discusses reading hymn texts as poetry. Visit GIA's Unbound project for more hymns, texts, and resources.My Shepherd Will Supply My NeedRESIGNATION, arr. Scott M. Aniol, text by Isaac WattsG-6748Scott M....