They knew that “Amazing Grace” would make the cut and that “How Great Thou Art” was a sure thing. The committee that chose the 250 hymns for Hymns for Worship considered these songs “classical hymns,” ...

After six years and thousands of submissions, the team tasked with the much-anticipated overhaul of the Latter-day Saint hymnbook announced Monday plans to release 12 songs that will appear in the ...

Stephen Jones currently works as a professor in the School of Music at BYU. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition from BYU and a master's and doctorate in music composition from ...

Does a wretch by any other name fit the tune? Modern hymn writers (in this case, re-writers) seem to think so, and adjustments to the second line of "Amazing Grace" are now relatively common. "Saved a ...

Dave Meder’s latest album isn’t the typical sort of music you’d hear in a church. But the University of North Texas music professor and jazz pianist doesn’t shy away from religious sounds or ideas in ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The new Latter-day Saint hymnbook will take about nine years from being announced with a request for submissions to becoming a full printed hymnbook in church meetinghouses. The ...

Hymns, praise music, Negro spirituals, Christian rock, sacred harp and Gregorian chant may seem like starkly different styles with little in common, but they can be heard in churches all across ...