A Companion To The New Harp Of Columbia

Author : Marion J. Hatchett
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1572332034

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A Companion to the New Harp of Columbia by Marion J. Hatchett Pdf

"The shape-note tradition first flourished in the small towns and rural areas of early America. Church-sponsored "singing schools" taught a form of musical notation in which the notes were assigned different shapes to indicate variations in pitch; this method worked well with congregants who had little knowledge of standard musical notation. Today many enthusiasts carry on the shape-note tradition, and The New Harp of Columbia (recently published in a "restored edition" by the University of Tennessee Press) is one of five shape-note singing-manuals still in use."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89082470691

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The Living Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Warren Steel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252053955

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The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel Pdf

This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day singers and their activities, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. The Makers of the Sacred Harp also includes analyses of the textual influences on the music--including metrical psalmody, English evangelical poets, American frontier preachers, camp meeting hymnody, and revival choruses--and essays placing the Sacred Harp as a product of the antebellum period with roots in religious revivalism. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition.

Author : David W. Music
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895795755

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A Selection of Shape-note Folk Hymns by David W. Music Pdf

xiv + 172 pp., includes facsimile pages

Author : David W. Music,Paul Akers Richardson
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0865549486

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"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story" by David W. Music,Paul Akers Richardson Pdf

Baptists have a long and rich heritage of congregational song. The hymns Baptists have sung and the books from which they have sung them have been shaping forces for Baptist theology, worship, and piety. Baptist authors and composers have provided songs that have made an impact not only among Baptists in America but also across denominational and geographic lines. Congregational singing continues to be a key component of Baptist worship in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of the British background, this book is a survey of the history of Baptist hymnody in America from Baptist beginnings in the New World to the present. Its intent is to help the reader better understand the background against which current Baptist congregational song practices operate. Unlike earlier writings on the subject, this book provides both comprehensive coverage and a continuous narrative. It gives thorough attention to the major Baptist bodies in America as well as calling attention to the contributions of significant smaller groups. The British Baptist background is dealt with in an introductory section. The book also includes many texts and tunes as illustrations of the topics being discussed and focuses on some of the contributions of Baptist authors and composers to the repertory of congregational song. Book jacket.

Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190842819

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Gems of Exquisite Beauty by Peter Mercer-Taylor Pdf

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds of tunes from the works of major classical composers to use as settings of psalms and hymns. The few that remain popular today millions have sung "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" to Beethoven and "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" to Mendelssohn are vestiges of one of the most distinctive trends in antebellum music-making. Gems of Exquisite Beauty is the first in-depth study of the historical rise and fall of this adaptation practice, its artistic achievements, and its place in nineteenth-century American musical life. It traces the contributions of pioneering figures like Arthur Clifton and the impact of bestsellers like the Handel and Haydn Society Collection, which helped turn Lowell Mason into America's most influential musician. By telling the tales of these hymns and those who brought them into the world, author Peter Mercer-Taylor reveals a central part of the history of how the American public first came to meet and creatively engage with Europe's rich musical practices.

Author : W. K. McNeil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135377076

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Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music by W. K. McNeil Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.

Author : Nicholas Temperley,Stephen Banfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252077678

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Music and the Wesleys by Nicholas Temperley,Stephen Banfield Pdf

"This book originated in a conference, Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys, hosted by CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth) and held at the University of Bristol in July 2007"--Pref.

Author : James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429012631

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Choral Music by James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp Pdf

Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred choral traditions, choral techniques, choral music education, genre studies, and more, providing an essential reference for researchers and practitioners. Covering monographs, bibliographies, selected dissertations, reference works, journals, electronic databases, and websites, this research guide makes it easy to locate relevant sources. Comprehensive indices of authors, titles, and subjects keep the volume user-friendly. The new edition has been brought up to date with entries encompassing the latest scholarship, and updated references and annotations throughout, capturing the continued growth of literature on choral music since the publication of the second edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 161703505X

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The Norumbega Harmony Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glenn C. Wilcox
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813118598

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The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by Glenn C. Wilcox Pdf

" William Walker's Southern Harmony, first published in 1835, was the most popular tune book of the nineteenth century, containing 335 sacred songs, dominated by the folk hymns of oral tradition and written in the old four-shape notation that was for generations the foundation of musical teaching in rural America. Born in 1809 in South Carolina, William Walker grew up near Spartanburg and early became devoted to the Welsh Baptist Church of his ancestors and to the musical heritage that church had brought to early America. Walker became a singing master, and Southern Harmony was compiled for his students in hundreds of singing schools all over North and South Carolina and Georgia and in eastern Tennessee. Southern Harmony reached Kentucky in the company of music-loving pioneers, and today an annual singing in Benton, Kentucky, remains the only such occasion on which Southern Harmony is consistently the source of the music. The CD included with the book contains 29 tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems, including ""New Britain"" (Amazing Grace), ""Happy Land,"" ""O Come, Come Away,"" ""Wondrous Love,"" and many, many more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Church music
ISBN : UOM:39015080966453

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The Hymn by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcus Lafayette Swan,William H. Swan
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030031006945

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The New Harp of Columbia by Marcus Lafayette Swan,William H. Swan Pdf

In the small towns and rural areas of early America, church-sponsored "singing schools" proliferated as a way of both improving congregational singing and drawing communities together. Congregants attending these schools were taught a form of musical notation in which the notes were assigned different shapes to indicate variations in pitch--a method that worked well with singers having little understanding of standard musical notation. These schools eventually became major social events that drew hundreds of attendees, and today countless enthusiasts carry on the shape-note tradition. The New Harp of Columbia, originally published in Knoxville in 1867, was a shape-note tunebook used in East Tennessee singing schools. It was based on an even earlier publication, The Harp of Columbia (1848). In 1978, the University of Tennessee Press published a facsimile edition of The New Harp with an introduction by Dorothy D. Horn, Ron Petersen, and Candra Phillips that detailed the history of shape-note singing as well as the story of the tunebook itself and its original compilers, W. H. Swan and M. L. Swan. That edition went out of print in 1999. Now, for this "restored edition" of the tunebook, the Press has reprinted not only the full text of its 1978 facsimile edition but has included additional tunes that were part of the original 1848 Harp of Columbia. A few verses to some songs favored by contemporary singers have also been added, and a new foreword by Larry Olszewski and Bruce Wheeler brings the story of the tunebook and its users up to date. Included in the book are old psalm and hymn tunes, anthems, fuguing pieces, and folk hymns--a total of more than two hundred pieces that represent a fascinating slice of Americana. As a reviewer for the Journal of Church Music noted of the 1978 facsimile: "[The book is] a worthwhile addition to any church musician's library, especially those interested in the development of American sacred music over the past two centuries." This publication marks a significant new step in preserving an important musical tradition.

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895791986

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The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody by Richard Crawford Pdf

Author : Charles K. Wolfe,James E. Akenson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813157191

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Country Music Annual 2002 by Charles K. Wolfe,James E. Akenson Pdf

In the third volume of this acclaimed country music series, readers can explore topics ranging from the career of country music icon Conway Twitty to the recent phenomenal success of the bluegrass flavored soundtrack to the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The tricky relationship between conservative politics and country music in the sixties, the promotion of early country music artists with picture postcards, the history of "the voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains" (North Carolina radio station WPAQ), and the formation of the Country Music Association as a "chamber of commerce" for country music to battle its negative hillbilly stereotype are just a few of the eclectic subjects that country music fans and scholars won't want to miss.