The Beat Goes On! Music as a Corps Ministry H. Burgmayer

"The Beat Goes On!"
Music as a Corps Ministry - Hardcover

A comprehensive resource valuable to present and future leaders, lay leaders and officers. Covered are topics applicable to all levels of corps music-making:

• worship planning and song leading
• youth and adult music ministries
• helps for the meeting pianist
• songsters and singing companies
• praise and brass bands
• lesson and rehearsal preparation
• teaching learners on piano, guitar, brass and percussion
• conducting and reading musical scores
• online appendix and audio resources

PART ONE: Music Ministers
• Chapter 1: From Minstrels to Ministers - Daring to Draw Near
• Chapter 2: Sunday Morning - A Lifeline to the Church
• Chapter 3: Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet - Making Things Happen at Your Corps
• Chapter 4: Workers Together - The Corps Leadership Team
• Chapter 5: Then Sings My Soul! - The Song Leaders

PART TWO: Youth Music Ministry
• Chapter 6: Let The Children Sing! - Training Young Singers through Small Group Instruction
• Chapter 7: The Right Song For Your Kids - Bit by Bit, Putting It Together
• Chapter 8: All Hail To Daniel's Band! - Building an Instrumental Program from the Bottom Up
• Chapter 9: God's Special Instruments - The Brass and Drum Instructor's Toolbox

PART THREE: Adult Music Ministry
• Chapter 10: What's The Score? - How to "Hear" a Vocal or Brass Score
• Chapter 11: From Score Reading to Score Study - Marking a Vocal or Brass Score
• Chapter 12: Awake My Voice and Sing! - The Songster Leader
• Chapter 13: The Effective Songster Rehearsal - The Songster Leader's Toolbox
• Chapter 14: Strike Up The Band! - The Bandmaster's Rehearsal and Sunday Preparation
• Chapter 15: Score Study To Rehearsal Strategy - The Bandmaster's Toolbox

PART FOUR: Worship Leadership
• Chapter 16: Play Me A Song, You're The Piano-Man! - Keyboard Basics
• Chapter 17: Keyboard Worship - The Meeting Pianist
• Chapter 18: More Than A Song - Leading the Worship Team
• Chapter 19: The Holy Hassle Of Another Sunday - The Worship Leader's Toolbox

PART FIVE
• Chapter 20: Where's The Beat? - Conducting Fundamentals
• Chapter 21: Sticks, Starts and Stops - More Conducting Fundamentals
• Chapter 22: Gesture And Expression - Expanding the Conductor's Toolbox
• Chapter 23: Listen and Respond - Making the Rehearsal Work


• Postlude: Passing The Baton - The Beat Goes On!