Guitar chords with each hymn.
The liturgical materials include 13 newly-written Congregational Prayers for Moravian Worship as well as the “core” liturgies from the Book of Worship. The hymns are organized to parallel the Moravian Book of Worship.

Preface by Nola Reed Knouse
excerpt: “The musical heritage of the Moravians is 550 years old now, and continues to grow from deep roots. To all who have taught and learned, composed and edited, sung and played, and worshiped with this music, past and present, and to those who will do so in our future, this work is humbly dedicated.”

Chapters:

1. The Moravians and Their Music – N. R. Knouse
2. Moravian Worship – C. Daniel Crews
3. Hymnody of the Moravian Church – Albert Frank and N. R. Knouse
4. Moravian Sacred Choral Music – Alice M. Caldwell
5. The Organ in Moravian Church Music – Lou Carol Fix
6. The Role and Development of Brass Music in the Moravian Church – Paul Peucker
7. The Collegia Musica: Music of the Community – N. R. Knouse
8. Music in the Moravian Boarding Schools – Pauline M. Fox
9. The Piano among the Moravians – Jewel A. Smith
10. Moravian Music: Questions of Identity and Purpose – N. R. Knouse

Appendix 1 Biographical Sketches

Appendix 2 A Moravian Musical Timeline

CD of Moravian Hymns sung by a Moravian choir.

CD of Moravian Chorales played by a brass quintet.

CD of Chorales played the Moravian Lower Brass.

“The hymnal (Gesangbuch) is a kind of response to the Bible, an echo and an extension thereof. In the Bible, one perceives how the Lord communicates with people; and, in the hymnal, how people communicate with the Lord.”  – attr. Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (later, per Paul Peucker, attr. to Bishop Spangenberg)

Copyright 1995 – Interprovincial Board of Publications and Communications

The Moravian Book of Worship “provides the means for unity in our church, on of rich diversity.  … this book joins with its predecessors in extending the heritage, established when, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Unitas Fratrum (early Moravian Church) published what is considered to be the first Protestant hymnal.