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Hymns and other music can be used in the following settings:
- Sunday Young Women opening exercises, including prelude and postlude music, an opening hymn, and additional music (if desired).
- Sunday Young Women classes.
- Mutual opening exercises, including an opening hymn and other musical selections (if desired).
- Mutual activities, including activities combined with the young men. Activities could include music performances, music festivals, road shows, short presentations on music appreciation, and instruction in singing, conducting, and reading music.
- Other Young Women activities and events, such as New Beginnings, Young Women in Excellence, standards events, youth conferences, camp, and firesides.
Music can be used in a variety of ways. For example, it can be used to create a feeling of reverence or to reinforce or conclude a lesson. For more ideas, see Teaching, No Greater Call, pages 172–74.
President Boyd K. Packer said, "Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony" ("Reverence Invites Revelation," Ensign, Nov. 1991, 22). |