The Sound of the Liturgy

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The Sound of the Liturgy is written by Cally Hammond and published by SPCK. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0281069557 (ISBN 10) and 9780281069552 (ISBN 13).

Cally Hammond looks at how words function as carriers of semantic content (communicating facts and doctrines; telling stories; articulating emotions and spiritual perceptions) and then contrasts this with words as they function as physical entities striking the ear, so as to evoke emotions, memories and spiritual perceptions. This basic antithesis between words as carriers of meaning and words as evokers of feeling, emotion, and memory leads to four chapters that explore in fascinating detail the four main aspects of liturgical speech: posture, repetition, rhythm and punctuation.