Baptists, music, and World War II

Baptist History and Heritage, Summer-Fall, 2001 by William J. Reynolds

(9.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1925, 103.

(10.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1926, 41-43.

(11.) Annual, Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1926.

(12.) David A. Wehr, "John Finley Williamson (1887-1964): His Life and Contributions to Choral Music" (Ph.D diss.. University of Miami, 1971), 72, 80, 84, 86, 108.

(13.) Don Michael Randel, ed., The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966), 351.

(14.) Hugh McElrath, "The Minister of Music in Southern. Baptist Life," Baptist History and Heritage 21, no. 3 (July, 1986): 18.

(15.) Mrs. H. R. Cook. First Baptist Church, Bessemer, Alabama 1887-1993 (Privately printed; copy in Samford University Library), 67.

(16.) W. Hines Sims, "Music Education, Baptist," Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, 2 (1958): 940.

(17.) E. P. Alldredge, Southern Baptist Handbook (Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1939), 9-11.

(18.) Letter and materials from Martha Moore Clancy to William J. Reynolds, June 25, 1983. (Reynolds's file).

(19.) William J. Reynolds, "The Graded Choir Movement Among Southern Baptists," Baptist History and Heritage 19, no. 1 (January 1984): 55-61.

(20.) Sims, "Music Education, Baptist," 940.

(21.) David N. Carle, "A History of the School of Church Music of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1944-1959" (D.M.A. diss., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky), 22.

(22.) Ibid., 44.

(23.) C. Randall Bradley, "The Influence of Frances W. Winters on the Development and Philosophy of the Graded Choir Movement in the Southern Baptist Convention" (D.M.A. diss., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988), 13-22.

(24.) Elizabeth Van Fleet Vosseller, Junior Choirs-More Helps and Suggestions (Flemington, New Jersey: Democrat Printing Office, 1939), 20.

(25.) Bradley, "Influence of Frances W. Winters," 13.

(26.) Hugh T. McElrath, "The Minister of Music in Southern Baptist Life," Baptist History and Heritage 21, no. 3 (July 1986): 13.

(27.) Graves was in Atlanta's First Baptist Church for almost a week during 1941, examining the new music program. This information was incorporated in Let Us Sing (Bradley, "Influence of Frances W. Winters," 16).

(28.) Annual, Southern Baptist convention, 1942.

(29.) Arkansas Baptist (December 6, 1942): 9.

(30.) Lynn E. May Jr., The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee 1820-1970 (Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970), 226.

(31.) Ibid. 247.

(32.) William J. Reynolds. Heritage of Praise: The Story of the Church Music Department of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: Church Music Department, BGCO, 1996), 4-5.

(33.) Baptist Messenger (December 11, 1952): 14.

William J. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of Church Music Emeritus, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth Texas..