{"id":39053,"date":"2016-12-22T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:36:16","slug":"lovely-dwelling-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/lovely-dwelling-place.html","title":{"rendered":"How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;How Lovely is Your Dwelling Place&quot; Psalm 84 music by Victoria Bond\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWrFWRfFkWM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>One piece that I omitted from my post on settings of biblical texts to music by female composers is that featured in the video above: \u201cHow Lovely is Your Dwelling Place\u201d (Psalm 84) by Victoria Bond. You can read Bond\u2019s notes about the composition in <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gtbzfy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers<\/em>, edited by Helen Leneman and Barry Dov Walfish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck to learn that Bond\u2019s piece is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/sdgmusic.org\/music\/psalms-project\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SDG Music\u2019s \u201cPsalms Project,\u201d<\/a> as there is also <a href=\"http:\/\/thepsalmsprojectband.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another \u201cPsalms Project\u201d<\/a> in a more contemporary idiom. 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