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“He Who Sings Well, Prays Twice:” Music in the Early Church
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“He Who Sings Well, Prays Twice:” Music in the Early Church

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“He Who Sings Well, Prays Twice:” Music in the Early Church

By Stephen Wilcox|2017-03-18T04:11:44+00:00August 6th, 2016|Christian, Sacred Song|

I was recently asked, "does a native Western Buddhist Liturgy even need music?" "Absolutely!" I've been ruminating since then, on the speed and fervency of my response. Since the ancient Greeks, Western culture has used music to navigate the boundary between the secular and the sacred. Music is one of [...]

Stephen Wilcox

Currently living and studying Buddhist Music at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, I am doing my best to learn all I can about this amazing liturgy. I received a B.M. in instrumental performance (tuba) and a B.M. in music theory from West Chester University, a M.M. in Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.Ed in Instructional Design, as well as a Ph.D. in Composition at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, he has been creating online music theory courses for Rutgers University, working as an instructional designer at UC Berkeley, and blogging at about music and technology (http://musictoolbox.org) His dissertation, Cho-Han, was performed by Osmo Vänska and the Minnesota Orchestra as part of the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composer’s Institute. A BMI award winner and MacDowell Fellow, he attended the Summer Composition Workshop in Hoy, Scotland, where he worked with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His other honors include awards from the Arts Fund, NACUSA, New Music Delaware, “Friends and Enemies of New Music”, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Prism Saxophone quartet.

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“He Who Sings Well, Prays Twice:” Music in the Early Church

Stephen Wilcox

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