The Cantor's Ministry The Cantor's Art:: From GIA Publications, Inc
The Cantor's Ministry The Cantor's Art:: From GIA Publications, Inc
The Cantor's Ministry The Cantor's Art:: From GIA Publications, Inc
Part 1
Raleigh, NC—Breakout B-03
Jennifer Kerr Budziak
“…At a moment of desperation one day I decided to look up cantor, the noun, and
canto, the verb, in my lonely and neglected high school Latin dictionary. I was sur-
prised to find some badly needed inspiration for what had come to feel like a rather
stale and predictable approach to introducing my uninitiated college singers to the
mysterious, ministerial world of music.
• Cantor, n., 1. Musician, singer, poet 2. Extoller, eulogist, actor, player
• Canto, v., property of persons and birds 1. To produce with energy melodious
sounds 2. To sing, celebrate, or praise in song 3. To use enchantments, to charm
4. To influence or bring under one’s power…”
The Cantor’s Art
©2017, GIA Publications, Inc.
From The Cantor as Poet, Rob Strusinski,
Originally published: GIA Quarterly 7.2, Winter 1996
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From Sing to the Lord:
On Why We Sing:
2. A cry from deep within our being, music is a way for God to lead us to the realm
of higher things. As St. Augustine says, “Singing is for the one who loves.” Music is
therefore a sign of God’s love for us and of our love for him. In this sense, it is very
personal. But unless music sounds, it is not music, and whenever it sounds, it is ac-
cessible to others. By its very nature song has both an individual and a communal
dimension. Thus, it is no wonder that singing together in church expresses so well the
sacramental presence of God to his people.
86. Of all the sounds of which human beings, created in the image and likeness of
God, are capable, voice is the most privileged and fundamental. Musical instruments
in the Liturgy are best understood as an extension of and support to the primary litur-
gical instrument, which is the human voice.
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Parts of the liturgy for which the cantor often ministers:
• Opening Song
• Kyrie
• Gloria
• Psalm (psalmist)
• Gospel Acclamation
• Prayers of the Faithful
• Eucharistic prayer/Acclamations (sung by congregation together)
• Lord’s Prayer
• Agnus Dei
• Communion song
• Song after Communion (sung by congregation together)
• Recessional Hymn (optional)
• Hymn (strophic)
• Verse-refrain song, sung by all
• Verse-refrain song, cantor verse/assembly refrain
• Through-composed music
• Litanies
• Call-and-response
• Ostinato chants
• World Music
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SOLI DEO GLORIA
Hymn (Strophic): Soli Deo Gloria
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Your love sur - rounds us our whole life through.
To preach and wit - ness with hearts on fire.
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Through word and wit - ness, in bread and wine;
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You are the com - fort of all dis - tressed:
To sing the new reign where might - y fall;
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Priest, teach - er, proph - et in time and space,
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stran - ger, may Christ be in all hearts that love.
Text: Ascribed to St. Patrick; tr. by Cecil F. Alexander, 1818–1895; adapt. by Jennifer Kerr Budziak, © 2016, GIA Publications, Inc.
Tune: YE BANKS AND BRAES, 8 8 8 8 with refrain; Scottish traditional; arr. by Jennifer Kerr Budziak, © 2016, GIA Publications, Inc.
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We Will Walk with God /
We Will Walk with God / Sizohamba
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Caminemos con Dios / Sizohamba
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Ca - mi - ne - mos con Dios, her - ma - nos, ca - mi - ne - mos con Dios.
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Swati phonetics:
See-zoh-hahm-bah nah-yay, woh woh woh, see-zoh-hahm-bah nah-yay.
Ngahm-hlah wen-jah-boo-lah, see-zoh-hahm-bah nah-yay.
Text: Swaziland traditional; transcribed by Swedish Youth Exchange Project, ©; English tr. by John L. Bell, b.1949, © 2002, Iona Community,
GIA Publications, Inc., agent; Spanish tr. by Ronald F. Krisman, b.1946, © 2012, GIA Publications, Inc.
Tune: SIZOHAMBA, Irregular; Swaziland traditional; transcribed by Swedish Youth Exchange Project, ©
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