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In Search for aSIan SoundS and SymbolS In WorShIp CSCA ChriStiAnity in SoutheASt ASiA SerieS no. 5 In Search for aSIan SoundS and SymbolS In WorShIp By Loh I-to Edited and Introduced by Michael Nai-Chiu Poon Trinity Theological College Singapore Copyright © Trinity Theological College 2012 Published by Trinity Theological College 490 Upper Bukit Timah Road Singapore 678093 Tel: (65) 6767 6677 Email: Contents CSCA Christianity in Southeast Asia Series vii Dedication viii Foreword by Lo Lung Kwong 1 Introduction Loh I-to as Bridge-Builder: Communication and Communion in the Asia Pacifc – Michael Poon 4 Preface 17 pilgrimage in contextualisation Chapter 1 Toward Contextualisation of Church Music in Asia 27 Chapter 2 Revisiting Ways of Contextualisation of Church Music in Asia 42 Chapter 3 Contextualisation of Asian Liturgy and Music: From AILM to Global Contexts. A Personal Recollection, Refection and Vision 61 Chapter 4 Approaches to Contextualisation of Church Music: With Special Reference to “Welcoming Another Year with The Spring Breezes” 78 i Contents Quest for asian Sounds and Symbols in Worship Chapter 5 Worshipping through Incarnational Music: My Mission 109 Chapter 6 Contemporary Issues in Inculturation 136 Chapter 7 Asian Symbols and Symbolic Acts 148 Chapter 8 A Glimpse at Multipart Practices in Traditional Asian Music 157 Sign posts Chapter 9 Contributions of ‘Asian’ Traditions to The Presbyterian New Hymnal, USA (1990) 177 Chapter 10 A Survey of Texts and Musical Styles in Sound The Bamboo (2000) 182 Chapter 11 The Signifcance of Seng-Si 2009: The New Hymnal of The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan 204 loh I-to and his Work Chapter 12 I-to Loh: Life and Infuences – Lim Swee Hong 234 Published Works of Loh I-to 243 Bibliography 253 About the Author and Contributors 256 About the Cover Art 258 CsCA ChristiAnity in southeAst AsiA series Series editor: Michael Nai-Chiu Poon he CSCA Christianity in Southeast Asia Series consists of Tcommissioned studies on present-day Christianity in Southeast Asia, specifcally in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. This Series aims to build up Southeast Asian Christian scholarship in Asia, and to encourage much-needed theological refection and critical inquiry on Christian life in Asia. The past few decades have witnessed two signifcant shifts that have impacted how world Christianity is interpreted. First, social sciences now provide the fundamental categories for understanding religious worlds. Philosophical and theological disciplines are often dismissed as ideologically motivated and so no longer occupy the central role they once assumed. Secondly, world Christianity is now studied in post- liberal settings in the West by academics who may have little interest in church life or Christian conviction. This represents a signifcant change from the time when career missionaries were the chief exponents of world Christianity. Stephen Neill, John V. Taylor, Max Warren and Andrew Walls were perhaps among the last missionaries in the post-1945 generation from the old school. Christian studies so run the risk of becoming increasingly abstract, with little attention to Christian life and witness. World Christianity is often described and explained in concepts that may be alien to the Christian community. Theological colleges, especially those outside the West, are often left without viable alternative but to accept such accounts. This Series hopes to meet the intellectual needs of Christian communities in Asia and beyond: to produce academic books for teaching Christianity to the faithful, and to introduce what Southeast Asian Christians think to the wider audience, in the hope this will advance Christian mission in the third millennium. ii Affectionately dedicated to my wife Hui-chin a woman of wisdom and perseverance my best supporter, adviser, colleague and critic iii Foreword frst met Loh I-to personally in a CCA (Christian Conference of I Asia) Mission Conference in Cipanas, Indonesia, 21-27 September 1989. I was amazed by his wide knowledge of hymns from various Asian countries. It was my frst experience of the richness of Asian hymns. I did not have much chance to talk to I-to on that occasion: it was a mission conference; hymns singing and liturgy played only a small part in the programme. Nevertheless, I was so impressed by I-to’s gifts in music, and his humble attitude in teaching and leading us to worship in Asian hymns and liturgy. Our close friendship began in 1996 when we both became members of Executive Committee of ATESEA (Association for Theological Education in South East Asia). During various ATESEA meetings, we held long conversations on theological education, church music, politics, Taiwan churches and so on. I learned from him much about Asian hymns, as well as his life experiences in contextualising church music and hymns in traditional and modern Asian cultures and situations. In 1997, though he was busy at that time with his responsibilities as president of Tainan Theological College and Seminary, he accepted my invitation to conduct a church music workshop in our School at Chung Chi College. We had a rich programme. Many came, including various Hong Kong church musicians who had different understanding of music contextualisation. It was surely the frst time that such church music workshop took place in Hong Kong. I was struck by I-to’s openness toward the different views expressed, and the respect he received from Hong Kong church musicians. I-to told me that in 1968, soon after he received his Master of Sacred Music degree at Union Theological Seminary New York, he
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