Church Music Quarterly (CMQ) is the RSCM magazine, published in March, June, September and December of each year. It is available exclusively to Members and Friends of the RSCM.
CMQ offers expert advice, information, news and inspiration to around 40,000 readers worldwide – from organists, choir directors and church music leaders to clergy, singers, instrumentalists and supporters who love and care about music in worship.
Each issue includes:
• Feature articles, profiles and interviews on a wide variety of topics to do with church music (click on the tab above for contents of back issues)
• Contributions from leading musicians, theologians and personalities
• Reports from RSCM members around the world and the latest information from the RSCM’s administrative centre in Salisbury
• New CD releases and church music books surveyed by an expert panel of reviewers.
The December 2011 issue is on The creative choral tradition
• Contents:
• The sacred sounds of today
Ronald Corp examines the contemporary choral world and introduces the composers writing for the church.
• From Hollywood to the Holy Word
CMQ talks to composer Thomas Hewitt Jones about his connection with church music.
• Victoria: music ‘from the blessed spirits’
A portrait of the Spanish Renaissance composer by the Sixteen’s Sally Dunkley
• Musicians and clergy: forging new relationships for 21st-century worship
Paul Ferguson considers how musicians and church leaders can work most effectively together for today’s worship.
• The parish choir – now and then
A profile of the choirs of St Wulfram, Grantham, Cambridgeshire
• The RSCM in your area
Regional Music Adviser Gordon Appleton takes a behind-the-scenes look at the work of RSCM Area Committees.
• The church’s year
Why does the church have a calendar? Nick Ash provides an explanation.
• Hymn meditation
’O come, O come, Emmanuel’: a meditation by Gordon Giles
• Contemporary Christmas songs
Fresh musical ideas for Advent and Christmas in contemporary styles
• Coda
by Jeremy Begbie