Author: Bobby Joe CarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Study of The Social Harp by John G. McCurry
Author: Bobby Joe CarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Social Harp
Author: John G. McCurryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820331515
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
One of the rarest country songbooks, it contains 222 pieces, mostly folktune settings, dating from the time between the Revolution and the Civil War. This facsimile reprinting has appendices useful for the study of its sources and an introduction that throws light on the men who wrote for nineteenth-century American songsters.
"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story"
Author: David W. MusicPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549487
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
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.
American Music Studies
Author: James R. HeintzePublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780899900216
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Studies in Musicology, 1935-1975
Author: Charles SeegerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020009
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody
Author: Richard CrawfordPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895791986
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Companion to the New Harp of Columbia
Author: Marion J. HatchettPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"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.
Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992
Author: Guy A. MarcoPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Author: Glenn C. WilcoxPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081311859X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
" 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.
Handbook of American Folklore
Author: Richard M. DorsonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203731
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.