The Ministry Of Cantors

by Harmon, Kathleen A.

• ISBN13: 9780814628775
• ISBN10: 081462877X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Liturgical Pr

Summary

The Ministry of Cantors addresses the role of the cantor by clarifying what liturgy and liturgical music are about and helping cantors find their role within that understanding. Several chapters deal with the cantor's primary role as psalmist. Subsequent chapters address the cantor's secondary role as song leader, the cantor gesture, and the identification and formation of persons called to this ministry. The final chapter identifies concrete ways the cantor is called to surrender self to the transforming power of the paschal mystery. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kathleen Harmon, S.N.D. de N., Ph.D., is the music director for programs of the Institute for Liturgical Ministry, Dayton, Ohio

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
The Cantor's Changing Role	p. 1
Being the Psalmist: Understanding the Role of the Responsorial Psalm	p. 8
Being the Psalmist: Preparing to Sing the Responsorial Psalm	p. 13
Pastoral Issues Related to Singing the Responsorial Psalm	p. 22
Being the Psalmist: Singing the Psalms for Morning and Evening Prayer	p. 27
Pastoral Issues Related to Singing the Psalms for Morning and Evening Prayer	p. 37
A Spirituality of the Psalmist	p. 42
Being the Song Leader	p. 52
The Cantor Gesture	p. 61
Who Ought to Be Cantor?	p. 72
The Cantor and the Paschal Mystery	p. 81
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