ROUGHLY EDITED COPY LUTHERAN WORSHIP 2 69.LW2 Captioning provided By: Caption First, Inc. P.O. Box 1924 Lombard, IL 60148 ******** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ******** >> NICK: I want ask you a question about Lutheran worship. How well does Lutheran worship reflect the long tradition of hymnody in the church? And while I'm asking, would you kindly reflect upon the new hymn book of the synod. Thank you. >> DR. JAMES BRAUER: Lutheran Worship is really quite excellent in covering all the traditions of hymnody. If you would examine in Lutheran Worship, History, and Practice the chapters that the editors of the hymnal provide there -- they actually give you a list of sources. You'll discover that European, Greek, Latin hymnody, American, British hymnody, and sources not only of text but tunes are listed there. And it's quite surprising. We have an overwhelming sense sometimes in our congregations that its way too Germanic. You'll discover that it really is quite global, and it covers the history of the church. We always like the ones that are the latest discoveries and are the most fun to sing. Over time, if a book lasts a quarter-century, you need something that's a little broader than just what's exciting at the moment. Now, we can look for the next book, Lutheran Service Book, which our Synod has approved at its convention in 2004 to appear in a couple years and to continue this tradition. I have here in my hand the proposal that the convention looked at. It lists many of the things that are going to be in that book and other books that surround it. And we can find a slightly expanded number of hymns. We can find perhaps ninety or one hundred psalms, at least that much. It's still not finished, the actual list, and other tools for the congregational life that continues this tradition of having a corpus of worship materials, hymns included, but also a divine service with maybe five settings. We used to have one setting for the divine service, the service with Holy Communion in the Lutheran Hymnal. So the need for variety is expanded, and it's mostly the service music that expands that. And then the hymnal corpus, the hymn corpus, kind of remains the standard six hundred or so hymns. And the congregation can really know maybe two hundred. The bright ones will know more. Those who don't show up too often will know fewer. But you can work with kind of two hundred in a year, and people can be comfortable with that. And good leadership can actually get them to know a lot more. So we can look for that to be there in the resources that are printed. Then we're going to have some digitized kind of files to use from here forward so we can actually reach back, if we have an occasion to sing something in German, maybe even into the old materials or to another version of the same hymn, an earlier translation. So we're going to be enriched and supplied as long as we can cover the copyright questions with the materials we use.