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ENDNOTES
1. "Worshiping with Incarnated Music: My Mission" [in Chinese]. Lam-sin Sin-hak 2:1 (1991):113-32.
2. Quoted by C. Michael Hawn, Gather into One: Praying and Singing Globally (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), 32.
3. "Toward Contextualization of Church Music in Asia," in Hymnology Annual: An International Forum on the Hymn and Worship, ed. Vernon Wicker (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Vande Vere, 1991), 1:93.
4. Water Buffalo Theology, twenty-fifth anniversary edition, revised and expanded (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999), 176.
5. See Seongdae Kim, Inculturation in Korean Protestant Hymnody (Ph.D. diss., Drew University, 1999), 194.
6. The meanings of raga can only be explained through the combinations of scale, mode, melodic shape, and tonal center, etc. It is also associated with certain moods, seasons and times of the day. Theoretically there are over seven thousand ragas, but even trained musicians would hardly know more than fifty.
7. See Maren C. Tirabassi and Kathy Wonson Eddy, Gifts of Many Cultures: Worship Resources for the Global Community (Cleveland: United Church Press, 1994), 74.
8. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art (Wheaton, Ill.: Harold Shaw, 1980), 128.
9. See I-to Loh, Kristus Sundaring Bali (Christ the Light to Bali): A Collection of New Balinese Hymns (Manila: Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, 1988), 7-8.
10. Loh, Kristus, 14-15.
11. For the details of these symbols and symbolic acts, see I-to Loh, "Asian Worship" in The Complete Library of Christian Worship, vol. 7, The Ministries of Christian Worship, ed. Robert Webber (Nashville: Star Song, 1994), 217-21.
12. See Choo Lak Yeow and John C. England, Doing Theology with People's Symbols and Images. ATESEA Occasional Papers (Singapore: ATESEA/PTCA, 1988), 21.
13. Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water , 49
14. Walking on Water, 81.
Born in Taiwan, I-to Loh received the M.Div. from Tainan Seminary, the SMM from Union Seminary, and the Ph. D. at UCLA. He has taught Asian and Global Church Music, Ethnomusicology, and Worship in Manila and Taiwan, and compiled over 20 collections of hymns, including Sound the Bamboo: CCA Hymnal 2000. He has published over one hundred original hymns and anthems, Teach Us to Praise, and many academic essays, and has led music and worship at WCC and CCA assemblies and conferences. I-to Loh retired from the presidency of Tainan Seminary in 2002, and is currently editing a hymnal and writing a companion to Sound the Bamboo.
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