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David W. Music (born January 28, 1949)

Early life and education
Music was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on January 28, 1949. (C)

He completed a BA in music at California Baptist College in 1970. He then did postgraduate study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), graduating with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1977.(c)

Career
After leaving the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Music initially worked for three years as a minister of music[Cant], at Highland Heights Baptist Church in Memphis,Tennessee. While at Highland Heights, he won the 1980 Norman W. Cox Award, which is awarded annually by the Baptist History and Heritage Society, for an article on Baptist history. Music's winning article was entitled "The Introduction of Musical Instruments into Baptist Churches in America."

In 1980, he began working at the California Baptist College, where he directed a number of choirs. In 1990, he returned to the SWBTS. he directed the Collegium Musicum, the annual Sacred Harp sing - a form of unaccompanied shape note singing. , chapel carol and hymn sings, and occasional Compline and Taizé services.

From 2002 until his retirement in 2020, Music was Professor of Church Music at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Sacred Harp sing at Baylor

which time he directed the school’s annual Sacred Harp sing, and was graduate program director in the School of Music (2003-2012). He

Music's name has been considered a good example of nominative determinism, where a person's name correlates with their chosen career. In a 2003 news article, while teaching at Baylor University, he commented: "Most people can't believe it. I get letters addressed to 'Dr. David W., Music Department."

Publications
Music edited a collection of primary sources relating to congregational hymns. Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings was published by The Scarecrow Press in 1996. This includes excerpts from various writings, such as hymnbook prefaces, letters, diaries and theological works, from the second century to the 1960s. Charles Webb, in Church History described this as a "valuable resource" for "both the serious hymnological scholar and the interested 'person in the pew'".

This was followed by Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents, published in 1998. This includes sources discussing the use of instruments in congregational worship, from the Old Testament up to the 20th century. Lutheran composer and lecturer Carl Schalk described this as an "excellent work" containing "a helpful, useful, and stimulating collection of source documents."

Music co-wrote, with Paul A. Richardson, "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story": A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America, which was published by Mercer University Press in 2008. This book details the history of congregational singing in Baptist churches, from the earliest American Baptist groups to the present day. It includes discussions of hymnwriters, hymnbooks, music styles, and doctrine. Reviewing the book for The Hymn, Beverly Howard described this as a "definitive work on the history of Baptist hymnody", which is a "'must-have' for collections in college, university, and seminary libraries."

Awards and honours
In 2010, Music was named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, for his "outstanding contributions to the study and practice of congregational song."

Personal life
Music's name has been considered a good example of nominative determinism, where a person's name correlates with their chosen career. In a 2003 news article, while teaching at Baylor University, he commented: "Most people can't believe it. I get letters addressed to 'Dr. David W., Music Department."

Development




... that actress Joanna Lumley wants to be buried with items she kept from her time as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the 1994 documentary Girl Friday?

that when actress Joanna Lumley was castaway on a desert island for the 1994 documentary Girl Friday, she made a pair of shoes out of her bra?

"Apparently she did say no, initially, because the BBC wanted her to go in the guise of Patsy, her character from Absolutely Fabulous. The idea was to strip this character of all her civilised props and observe (what a scream) how she fared. But Lumley had had enough of Patsy, and would only go if she could go as herself." 

Production
By Day Seven the crew had begun to sneak Lumley the odd treat a mango, or a cigarette. 

Refusing to catch fish, Lumley subsisted mainly on rice (supplied) and vegetable stock cubes (supplied); charitably, she left a recipe for this dinner, buried inside a billy-can on the beach.

Programme
"equipped with no more than an SAS survival kit: a knife as big as her arm, a grinder, four matches, a tin can for cooking, but no toothbrush or bedding."

"The crew departs before dusk and she spends the nights by herself and makes little video reports"

"With them went a resourceful brain that fashioned a parasol out of palms and turned a bra into slippers: These little babies are just peachy."