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Author: Gwynn S. McPeek
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9782881242168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Stephen A. Marini
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780252028007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how an understanding of the meanings and functions of this musical expression can contribute to a greater understanding of religious culture.Marini examines the role of sacred song across the United States, from the musical traditions of Native Americans and the Hispanic peoples of the Southwest, to the Sacred Harp singers of the rural South and the Jewish music revival to the music of the Mormon, Catholic, and Black churches. Including chapters on New Age and Neo-Pagan music, gospel music, and hymnals as well as interviews with iconic composers of religious music, Sacred Song in America pursues a historical, musicological, and theoretical inquiry into the complex roles of ritual music in the public religious culture of contemporary America.
Author: John Ogasapian
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780881460261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of American church music is a particularly fascinating and challenging subject, if for no other reason than because of the variety of diverse religious groups that have immigrated and movements that have sprung up in American. Indeed, for the first time in modern history-possibly the only time since the rule of medieval Iberia under the Moors-different faiths have co-existed here with a measure of peace- sometimes ill-humored, occasionally hostile, but more often amicable or at least tolerant-influencing and even weaving their traditions into the fabric of one another's worship practices even as they competed for converts in the free market of American religion. This overview traces the musical practices of several of those groups from their arrival on these shores up to the present, and the way in which those practices and traditions influenced each other, leading to the diverse and multi-hued pattern that is American church music at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The tone is non-technical; there are no musical examples, and the musical descriptions are clear and concise. In short, it is a book for interested laymen as well as professional church musicians, for pastors and seminarians as well as students of American religious culture and its history.
Author: John Wyeth
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 132
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 674
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard C. Von Ende
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780810812710
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Author: John Alexander Fuller-Maitland
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marion J. Hatchett
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781572332034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Benjamin Carr
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0895792044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Warren Steel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2024-03-31
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0252053958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
