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Congregational participation was encouraged with the provision of responses and unison prayers. Finally, the book included an extensive selection from Psalms and Canticles; the latter's titles were given in Latin (Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum laudamus etc.), also a significant departure from the Reformed tradition.
The Congregational tradition has shaped both mainline and evangelical Protestantism in the United States. In the 20th century, the Congregational tradition in America fragmented into three different denominations. The largest of these is the United Church of Christ, which resulted from a 1957 merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Congregational singing at a church in La Matanza, Argentina, 1972. Congregational singing is the practice of the congregation participating in the music of a church, either in the form of hymns or a metrical Psalms or a free form Psalm or in the form of the office of the liturgy (for example Gregorian chants). [1]
First Congregational Church senior choir members, from left to right, Ann Cairns, Linda Divris, Sally Martin and Rachel Smith prepare to sing during First Congregational Church's 300th anniversary ...
Murray made a significant musical contribution to Catholic liturgy in respect of the development of congregational participation, notably in the 1939 Westminster Hymnal, [1] and A People's Mass (1950: reprinted many times). [1] It is a simple and tuneful setting, with sales of more than two million copies at the time of Murray's death.
Stainer intended the piece to be within the scope of most parish church choirs; it includes five hymns for congregational participation. [3] The text consists of extracts from the King James Bible with poetic material written by W J Sparrow Simpson, the librettist of Stainer's earlier cantata Mary Magdalene. [4]
In German, the word Choral may as well refer to Protestant congregational singing as to other forms of vocal (church) music, including Gregorian chant. [1] The English word which derived from this German term, that is chorale, however almost exclusively refers to the musical forms that originated in the German Reformation.
"The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." –Augsburg Confession [8] Christian theologians such as Bostwick Hawley teach that church membership is commanded in scripture, grounding this in the fact that "apostolic letters are addressed to the Churches", "Apostolic salutations are to Churches", "Jesus Christ is ...