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Bert Polman |
Bert Polman is chair of the Music Department at Calvin College and senior research fellow for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
Dr. Bert studied at Dordt College (BA 1968), the University of Minnesota (MA 1969, PhD in musicology 1981), and the Institute for Christian Studies. Dr. Bert was a longtime
is professor of music at Redeemer College in Ancaster, Ontario, and organist at Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Waterdown, Ontario. His teaching covers a wide range of courses in music theory, music history, music literature, and worship, and Canadian Native studies. His research specialty is Christian hymnody. He is also an organist, a frequent workshop leader at music and worship conferences, and contributor to journals such as The Hymn and Reformed Worship. Dr. Bert was co-editor of the Psalter Hymnal Handbook (1989), and served on the committees that prepared Songs for LiFE (1994) and Sing! A New Creation (2001), both published by CRC Publications.
Selected Writings
A Christian Testimony on Music and Art
A History of Music in the Christian Reformed Church
The Hymn Question in the Christian Reformed Church
Hymnology (Course Syllabus)
Praise and Worship Songs
Songs for Ascension, Pentecost, and Professing Our Faith (Reformed Worship 71)