CPH Blog - Worship
The Christian life begins and ends as we gather together to receive God’s gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation in weekly worship. Whether you’re a service planner, worship leader, or hymn lover, you’ll sing for joy at these music posts.
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Read ArticleCelebrating the 500th Anniversary of the First Lutheran Hymnal
Beloved Lutheran hymnals have a long history, dating all the way back to 1524 in Germany. Each variation has been used for different purposes, such as a home devotional that eventually...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Easter with Minimum Pedal
Edwin T. Childs adds to his series of settings for minimal pedal, providing a collection of hymn tunes for the Easter season. Composed as a single stanza, these preludes are suitable as...
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Read ArticleFive Easy-to-Learn Sheet Music Options for Easter
Every spring, Easter comes around in the Church Year as a celebration of the battle Christ has won for believers everywhere. He has conquered the devil, died for your sins, and defeated...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Hymn Tune Innovations: 5 Preludes for Lent
This collection of five preludes for Lent is another stunning addition to the Hymn Tune Innovations series. Benjamin M. Culli has composed five accessible preludes for use during the...
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Read ArticleTop Children’s Hymns for Lent
Lent is a reflective and beautiful time in the Church Year. As we prepare to enter this season, you may notice some children are more familiar with this time as one to “take a break” from...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Five Lenten Hymns for Two-Part Choir
Five Lenten Hymns for Two-Part Choir is a collection of five two-part choir settings highlighting new hymn texts for Lent by hymn writers such as Lisa M. Clark and Stephen P. Starke. The...
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Read ArticleDownloadable Sheet Music for Lent
Planning the music for Lenten services can be a monumental task. Not only are there Sunday services but midweek and Holy Week services too. Open up your options with digital music that...
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Read ArticleTop Children’s Hymns for Christmas
It’s that time of year: the weather has gotten colder, the lights have gone up, and the Christmas music has been playing for some time now. It’s a season of celebration, especially the...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Christmas Impressions, Set 2
Enhance your Christmas worship services with these five preludes by William H. Bates. Driving rhythmic passages, harmonic sequences, and imaginative counterpoints shore up the distinctive...
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Read ArticlePausing for Peace: Advent for Instrumentalists
It happens every year. The evenings grow darker as the weeks pass, and we all look longingly out the windows of work or school, counting down dwindling days until Christmas break. We...
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Read ArticleTop Children’s Hymns for Advent
The celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is fast approaching, and with it comes an abundance of music. It’s easy to bypass Advent and skip ahead to Christmas. But Advent...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
Ralph C. Schultz offers us this Appalachian folk song that proclaims the birth of Jesus. The beauty of the song is placed in an accessible setting for SAB choir with a descant for C or...
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Read ArticleThe Stories behind Your Favorite Reformation Hymns
Why have certain hymns grown to be synonymous with the Reformation? With these excerpts from Eternal Anthems and Companion to the Hymns, you’re invited to journey through the contexts of...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Built on the Rock by Wayne L. Wold
Each movement of this five-movement partita, Built on the Rock: Partita on “Kirken den er et gammelt hus,” can be used separately at various points in a worship service, or they can be...
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Read ArticleVespers and Evening Hymns
The historic church used to partake in a set of daily services called the Daily Office. This kept people connected to God and in community with His Word throughout their working lives....
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: My Lord, What a Morning
David von Kampen has set this anthem for End Times or Advent for SATB choir and piano. It begins with unison choir on the first refrain and moves to SATB in the first verse. The piece...
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Read ArticleChildren’s Music for the Worship Service
Jesus cherished children in a special way throughout His ministry on earth, which we are reminded of in His words “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for to such...
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Read ArticleAn Overview of Compline
As you assembled in silence in a church by candlelight or with your family before turning in for the night, you may have prayed the office of Compline. This evening office is reflective...
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Read ArticleMusic of the Month: Artful Hymn Accompaniments for Piano
Timothy Shaw’s collection of hymn accompaniments for piano showcases the range and technique of the piano as an instrument to lead congregational singing. This collection is the second in...
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Read ArticleWhat Is a Cantor?
You may have heard someone in your church referred to as a cantor (sometimes spelled “kantor”). You probably know that a cantor works with church music, but what makes a cantor distinct...
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