Compositions, Scholarly Publications, and Videos

MUSIC PUBLICATIONS:

• Six Hymn Preludes. (Waukesha, WI: Northwestern Publishing House, 2023.)
• “Meditation on ‘The King of Love’” in Proclaim: Hymn Preludes and Harmonizations for the Hymn of the Day—Easter. (St Louis: CPH, 2022.)
• Light Divine: Three Pentecost Hymn Settings for Organ. (St. Louis: CPH, 2021.)
• CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN in Augsburg Organ Library Series 2: Easter. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2021.)
• EIN FESTE BURG in Proclaim: Hymn Preludes and Harmonizations for the Hymn of the Day—Lent. (St Louis: CPH, 2021.)
• Notes of Gladness: Six Easter Hymn Settings for Organ. (St Louis: CPH, 2020.)
• Setting of WIE SCHOEN LEUCHTET in Proclaim: Hymn Preludes and Harmonizations for the Hymn of the Day—Epiphany (St Louis, CPH, May, 2020)
• Setting of HELMSLEY in Proclaim: Hymn Preludes and Harmonizations for the Hymn of the Day–Advent (St Louis: CPH, 2019)
• Rock of Ages: Six Hymn Settings for Organ. St Louis: CPH, 2019
• Gates of Beauty: Seven Hymn Preludes. St Louis: CPH, 2018.
• Jesus Loves Me: Hymn Settings of William Bradbury. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2018.
• Organ Chorale Prelude on SUO GAN in Gathered to Worship – Volume III. Chicago: GIA, 2018.
• Praise to You and Adoration: Six Hymn Settings for Organ. St Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2017.
• Organ Chorale Prelude on TERRA BEATA in Gathered to Worship – Volume I. Chicago: GIA, 2016.
• Seven Organ Preludes. St Louis: CPH, 2015

BOOKS:

• Joyful Singing: A Story of Lutheran Sacred Music in Texas. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022) Recipient of the 2023 Award of Commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute.
• Music from the Hilltop: Organs and Organists at SMU. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2023)

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:

• “Dora Poteet Barclay: Developing an Organ Department at Southern Methodist University” (The American Organist, January, 2024.)
• “Bertha Stevens Cassidy: Art, Industry, and Pedagogy in Texas” (The American Organist, February, 2024.)
• “A Fresh Look at the International Music Score Library Project: Treasures New and Old” (The American Organist, August, 2022.)
• “Translations, Traditions, and Transformations: Catherine Winkworth and the Lutheran Chorale in English” (Concordia Theological Quarterly, October, 2022.)
• “Joseph Lawrence Herl,” biographical entry for the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. (UK) JR Watson, editor, 2021.
• “A History of Pipe Organs in the Lone Star State,” in The Tracker, July, 2019.
• “Pipes on the Texas Prairie: The History of Pipe Organs in Dallas,” Pt 1 in The Tracker, January, 2019. (The journal of the Organ Historical Society) Pt 2 in the April, 2019, issue
• “Early Lutheran Hymnody” in A Legacy of Hymnists: Historical and Theological Introductions. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018.
• “The International Music Score Library Project as a Practical Resource for Hymn Playing” in The American Organist. (April, 2015)
• “Organs and Hymnody, USA” in The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. (UK) JR Watson, editor. 2014
• “Godfrey Thring: Victorian Hymnwriter of the Via Media” in The Hymn. (February, 2013) ThringPDF
• Review: Fifth Avenue Famous: The Extraordinary Story of Music at St Patrick’s Cathedral. For Association of Lutheran Church Musicians’ journal, Cross Accent. (November, 2012)
• Lutheran Service Book Hymnal Companion. St Louis: CPH, 2019. (Wrote and researched many of the biographies and some hymn essays.)
• “The Orgelsammling of Copenhagen” (The Diapason. February, 2013.)
• “Organ Music in the Christian Liturgy” in Organ Music of the Twentieth Century: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Anderson. Christopher Anderson, editor. NY: Routledge, 2012.
• “London’s Musical Museum and the Revival of a Wurlitzer” (Theatre Organ, November/December, 2010)
• “The Wedding Prelude as Showcase for the King of Instruments” (The American Organist, August, 2007.)
• “Frederick Henry Quitman and the Catechesis of the American Lutheran Enlightenment” (Concordia Theological Quarterly, November, 2007.)
• “Isaac Watts, the Wesleys, and the Evolution of Eighteenth-Century English Congregational Song” (Methodist History, July, 2004.)
• “Pietism and Rationalism: A Dichotomy of Resemblance” (Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Spring, 2004.)
• “How to Build a Concert Series in a Small Church” (The Chorister, October/November, 2003.)
• “Realms in Conflict: Rationalism and Orthodoxy in Early 19th-Century United States” (The Hymn, July/August, 2002)

SAMPLE VIDEOS (see this channel on YouTube for a complete listing)