《心中音乐》(Xin Zhong Yinyue, Songs from the Heart), a hymnbook by Scott Callaham is now available. Songs from the Heart includes 41 hymns written in Chinese with Western music notation, Chinese-style numerical notation, and guitar chords for each hymn.
Joann Pittman recently talked with Scott to find out more about how a former submariner from Texas ended up composing hymns in Chinese. She posed three questions.
Youth Hymns played a significant role in Chinese Christian hymnody and continues its legacy in the twenty-first century. This is the story.
Listening to contemporary Christian worship music—in Mandarin!
A hymn to the tune of a popular Chinese tradtional folk song—茉莉花, "Jasmine Flower."
Praising Jesus to the tune of a Yangtze boatmen's song.
A hymn that is much loved by Chinese Christians who worship in unregistered churches as well as those who worship in registered churches.
Another ancient hymn sung by Christians in China.
The first in a new series on church music in China.
Singing on Easter morning with hundreds of Chinese brothers and sisters was a tiny glimpse of heaven.
The Yanjing Theological Seminary student choir singing the hymns of the New Hymnal—a resource for churches in China.