All About HYMN website

Here's where you'll
find such items as:

• Sample chapter from
ssthe book
• Afterword by Dr.
ssJohn Hamm
• Articles of interest
• Classical guitar
sstranscriptions
• Photos that illustrate
ssconcepts in the book
• Book corrections and
ssclarifications
• Information on live
ssclassical guitar for
ssyour house of worship
• Information on the
sscompanion CD entitled
ssFor HYMN, due out in
ssthe fall of 2008

CLASSICAL GUITARIST, CHURCH MUSICIAN, and AUTHOR Donn LeVie, Jr.
invites congregations, music leaders, and church musicians to honestly assess how
well their worship music uplifts the gospel. Here, they will discover there is no room
for personal preference where spiritual discernment, established church music
criteria, and scriptural guidance must give wing to our voices in praise and adoration
of an Almighty God.

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Essay Chapter 1: The Congregation is the Praise Band
Essay Chapter 2: The Worship Music Debate Through the Ages
Essay Chapter 3: Contemporary Christian Music, Praise and Worship Music, Christian Pop Music:
What Are We Really Talking About?
Essay Chapter 4: Assumptions, Fallacies, Reason, and Groupthink in the Worship Music Debate
Essay Chapter 5: Why Personal Preference Can Not be an Option for Selecting Music for Worship
Essay Chapter 6: Understanding and Applying Spiritual Discernment for Selecting Music Used for
Worship
Essay Chapter 7: Does Secular Music Have a Place in Worship Services?
Essay Chapter 8: Music as Art in the Church
Essay Chapter 9: The Influence of Church Architecture on the Worship Model
Essay Chapter 10: 21 Questions on Reclaiming Sacred and Traditional Music for Worship
Essay Chapter 11: A Scriptural Prescription for Selecting Music for Worship
Essay Chapter 12: Grace Notes
Finale
Afterword by Dr. John Hamm
Appendix A: Recommended Sacred Choral Music Recordings
Appendix B: Recommended Pipe Organ Music Recordings
Appendix C: Be a Part of the Follow-up Book: It's All About HYMN: Second Verse
Appendix D: Supplemental Material at www.allabouthymn.com
About the Author

Volume discounts are available to houses of worship, religious
organizations, seminaries, and other educational institutions. Please
contact the publisher for details at:

Kings Crown Publishing
6705 Highway 290 West
Suite 502 No. 247
Austin, TX 78735 USA
info@kingscrownpublishing.com
www.kingscrownpublishing.com

With so many contemporary evangelical voices calling for "redefining", "rethinking", "remaking", and "repackaging"
Christian worship, now comes a new voice for reclaiming its sacred and traditional precepts for worshipping God
through sung prayer. Praised by some of the world's leading authorities on church music, It's All About HYMN: Essays
on Reclaiming Sacred and Traditional Music for Worship opens up new doors to dialogue, sheds light on factors that
influence the Western Christian worship model, and challenges all Christians to reassess how they approach the very
act of worship.