"Lift Every Voice and Swing"
Global Praise - Methodist world hymns
Nicholas Payton (jazz trumpeter), "On Why Jazz Isn't Cool Anymore"
Occupy Jazz
"from the edge" = from the beginning, esp. after train wreck
"form" or "roadmap"
The goal of discipline is freedom.
Improvisation requires preparation.
Work far in advance.
Average 7 pieces of music per jazz worship service
Transform particular piece of music to jazz arrangement
- write charts
How could jazz ever not be considered sacred?
- emotional, spiritual, intellectual depth
- melting pot of music
(!Mariachi Mass!)
(Jazz musicians often not churched, so it's harder to include that music and do it well)
(Also ghettoized by doing entire "Jazz Worship" rather than using it within, along with)
How to do jazz and congregational singing?
Is performance aspect of jazz inextricable?
- give context, lead-in, so people can enter in to music and not just sit while others perform
That Singing Thing (I & II)
Why Catholics Can't Sing, Thomas Day
"feel" = what's the feel of the piece?
People are hung up on jazz as a style of music rather than as a process of making music (see Bill Evans, video series The Universal Mind of Bill Evans)
Jazz doesn't "sound like" anything
- Jazz is the way it's done
Transformation:
- Key
- Meter
- Form
- Harmony
- Feel
- original in D = common hymn key
- change to Db = get people's attention
ii V = basic building block of Western harmony (Circle of Fifths!)
minor vamp = naturally/inherently spiritual
Gregorian chant (voice, recorder) over jazz harmonization
WORKSHOP II: "Service as a Song - The Planning Process"- Sara (?)
D-I-S-C = Personality types in group dynamics
- Dominant
- Influence
- Steadfast
- Compliant
3 V's = Visual, Verbal, Visceral
focus on flow of service, not order of service
worship service as a song - e.g., verse, refrain, verse, refrain, coda
Making music, not performing music
Mission Statement = start with words that are key ideas, then work them into sentences
Appreciative Inquiry (evaluation)
WORKSHOP III: Models of Services
[skipped this one due to queasiness due to need for nap]
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