Moravian Music Journal
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
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Newsletter of the Moravian Music Foundation
Author: Richard W. Starbucl
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-09
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780266009665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Newsletter of the Moravian Music Foundation: A Supplement to the Moravian Music Journal; Summer 1985-Summer 1995; Vol. 1-10 For Moravians, Easter is the pinnacle of our church's life, so much so that at times we have been nicknamed The Easter People. The sunrise service where our faith is expressed in a liturgical creed is the beginning of a day of celebration. It continues into our worship service later in the morning when in our Easter liturgy we joyfully sing the hymn The Day of Resurrection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ohio Moravian Music
Author: Lawrence W. Hartzell
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of pre-twentieth-century Ohio Moravian music and its development in the Tuscarawas Valley in Indian missions that later become white settlements. Extensive research of period writings and oral history interviews and discussions bring to light many musicians whose names had been lost over the decades and musical compositions heretofore unknown.
Moravian Soundscapes
Author: Sarah Justina Eyerly
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0253047757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments—or soundscapes—characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, Gnadenhütten, and Friedenshütten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds—musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman—shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.
The Music of the Moravian Church in America
Author: Nola Reed Knouse
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 158046260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Moravians, or Bohemian Brethren, early Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the eighteenth century, brought a musical repertoire that included hymns, sacred vocal works accompanied by chamber orchestra, and instrumental music by the best-known European composers of the day. Moravian composers -- mostly pastors and teachers trained in the styles and genres of the Haydn-Mozart era -- crafted thousands of compositions for worship, and copied and collected thousands of instrumental works for recreation and instruction. The book's chapters examine sacred and secular works, both for instruments -- including piano solo -- and for voices. The Music of the Moravian Church demonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America's most distinctive ethno-cultural populations, and presents many distinctive pieces that performers and audiences continue to find rewarding. Contributors: Alice M. Caldwell, C. Daniel Crews, Lou Carol Fix, Pauline M. Fox, Albert H. Frank, Nola Reed Knouse, Laurence Libin, Paul M. Peucker, and Jewel A. Smith. Nola Reed Knouse, director of the Moravian Music Foundation since 1994, is active as a flautist, composer, and arranger. She is the editor of The Collected Wind Music of David Moritz Michael.
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Author: Moravian Music Foundation
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 26
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Moravian Soundscapes
Author: Sarah Justina Eyerly
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0253047730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments—or soundscapes—characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, Gnadenhütten, and Friedenshütten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds—musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman—shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.
Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America
Author: N. Lee Orr
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780810836648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChoral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.
The Moravian Contribution to American Music
Author: Donald McCorkle
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 20
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