So many books, too little time

I've started to amass a pile of books for the summer. Actually I want to finish reading a number of them before the sabbatical begins. It's like reading the cookbooks before making the meal. So every day, I spend about an hour whacking away at them. Tonight the sermon's done early, so I'll going to dig in for a while. The pile of books includes:

Books on the Psalms and Related Concerns

Sally A. Brown and Patrick D. Miller, editors, Lament: Reclaiming Practices in Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)

William P. Brown, Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Psalms (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002)

John Eaton, Meditating on the Psalms (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004)

William L. Holladay, The Psalms Through Three Thousand Years: Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993)

James Limburg, Psalms (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000)

James L. Mays, Preaching and Teaching the Psalms (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006)

Patrick D. Miller, They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994)

Erich Zenger, A God of Vengeance? Understanding the Psalms of Divine Wrath (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)


Books on Music and Musical Composition

Albert L. Blackwell, The Sacred in Music (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999)

J. Nathan Corbitt, The Sound of the Harvest: Music’s Mission in Church and Culture (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998)

Gil Goldstein, Jazz Composer’s Companion (New York: Consolidated Music Publishers, 1981)

C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003)

David Liebman, A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody (Germany: Advance Music, 1991)

Ted Pease, Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice (Boston: Berklee Press, 2003)

Jack Perricone, Melody in Songwriting (Boston: Berklee Press, 2000)

William Russo, Composing Music: A New Approach (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980)

David Steindl-Rast, OSB, The Music of Silence: Entering the Sacred Space of Monastic Experience (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995)