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In Commemoration
ofthe 150th Anniversary
Civil War Songs and Hymns
Make Music!
Music refines the taste, purifies the heart, and elevates our nature. It does more: it soothes in sorrow, tranquillizes in passion, and wears away the irritabilities of life. It intensifies love, it fires the patriotism, and makes the altar of our devotion burn with a purer, holier flame...when wealth and fame and worldly honor are felt to be nothing; when the aims and ambitions and aspirations which were wont to rouse up all the energies of nature toward their accomplishment fail of their accustomed power, music renders the burden of sickness light, and makes us all oblivious of pain and suffering.
-- W.W. Hall, M.D., Hall's Journal Of Health For 1862
Contents
The Multimedia CD: Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
Lincoln and Liberty: Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
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A Civil War Music Treasury
with 7 World Premiere Recordings!
Glory, Hallelujah
Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
Get your copy of this multimedia CD-ROM, formerly titled "Weeping, Sad and Lonely." It was compiled and edited by Roger Lee Hall, and is filled with useful information.
Also included is the First Modern Day Recording of the original published versions of "John Brown" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic," from a concert celebrating the 350th anniversary of the City of Boston in 1980.
This disc is playable on any computer and includes 20 tracks of music from North and South between 1859 to 1869. It also includes a commemorative hymn in memory of those lost during the Civil War and titled, "They Who Seek The Throne Of Grace."
Unlike other CDs which focus on just the battle songs or instrumental music, this disc includes a wide variety of vocal music, reflecting both the North and South, in original published editions and modern day arrangements.
The performers of the Civil War music include:
- The Union Confederacy
- The Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus
- The Plymouth Church Choir
- Sky Pilot Gospel Choir
- Lutheran Church Choir
Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
America's best known 19th century songwriterThis CD-R includes 7 World Premiere Recordings from live concerts:
--Four Civil War era hymns by Stephen Foster (Nos. 11-14)
--A Shaker pacifist hymn received in a dream by Cecilia DeVere (No. 6)
--Hymn to commemorate the end of the Civil War (No. 19)
--Commemorative hymn based on a piano theme by Gottschalk (No. 20).
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
One of the most popular American composers
in the 1850s and 1860sAlso on the multimedia CD are the lyrics and background notes for all 20 tracks of music, image galleries of Abraham Lincoln portraits and Civil War sheet music , and documents about selected Civil War songs such as Abraham Lincoln's favorite Civil War song, and the story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. All the music on the CD is from the American Music Recordings Archive.
CD Track Titles:
- 1. I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE’S LAND (1859-1860) - Daniel D. Emmett
- 2. LINCOLN AND LIBERTY(1860)
- 3. THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG (1861)
- 4. BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC & JOHN BROWN'S BODY(1861-62)
- 5. GO DOWN, MOSES (1862) – Afro-American spiritual (ca. 1862)
- 6. +A PRAYER FOR THE CAPTIVE (1862)–Cecilia DeVere (Shaker hymn)
- 7. CUMBERLAND GAP (ca. 1862)
- 8. GOOBER PEAS (ca. 1862)
- 9. LORENA (1857)
- 10. ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC (1863)
- 11. +THE PURE, THE BRIGHT, THE BEAUTIFUL (1863) - Stephen Foster
- 12. +OVER THE RIVER (1863) - Stephen Foster
- 13. +GIVE US THIS DAY (1863) - Stephen Foster
- 14. +WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE? (1863) - Stephen Foster
- 15. WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAAM (1862) - Stephen Foster
- 16. WILLIE HAS GONE TO THE WAR (1863) - Stephen Foster
- 17. WEEPING, SAD AND LONELY (WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER)
- 18. WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME (1863) - P.S. Gilmore
- 19. +ANGEL OF PEACE (1869) - honoring the end of the Civil War
- 20. +THEY WHO SEEK THE THRONE OF GRACE - commemorative hymn
based on a piano theme by Louis Moreau Gottschalk - composed by Roger Lee Hall
+ = Premiere Recording
ANGEL OF PEACE (aka: HYMN OF PEACE)
Angel of Peace, thou hast wandered too long!
Spread thy white wings to the sunshine of love!
Come while our voices are blended in song—
Fly to our ark like the storm-beaten dove!
Fly to our ark on the wings of the dove,—
Speed o’er the far-sounding billows of song,
Crowned with thine olive-leaf garland of love;—
Angel of Peace, thou hast waited too long!Joyous we meet, on this altar of thine
Mingling the gifts we have gathered for thee,
Sweet with the odors of myrtle and pine,
Breeze of the prairie and breath of the sea,--
Meadow and mountain and forest and sea!
Sweet is the fragrance of myrtle and pine,
Sweeter the incense we offer to thee,
Brothers once more round this altar of thine!
Angels of Bethlehem, answer the strain!
Hark! a new birth-song is filling the sky!--
Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main
Bid the full breath of the organ reply,--
Let the loud tempest of voices reply,--
Roll its long surge like the-earth-shaking main!
Swell the vast song till it mounts to the sky!
Angels of Bethlehem, echo the strain!
poem by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes/
music: "American Hymn" (1866) by Matthias Keller
Portrait of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1808-1894)
poet, essayist, physician
"Drummer Jackson"
79th U.S. Colored Troops
"Men of Color. To Arms! Now or Never!"
Glory, Hallelujah
Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
This title is available in two formats:
- a multimedia CD-ROM playable on any computer, with complete music texts and background information,
an image gallery of Civil War sheet music,
and 20 songs and hymns from
the Civil War Era. Available for a donation of $20.
- a CD playable on computer or other CD player with the 20 songs and hymns of the Civil War Era (track titles listed above). Available for a donation of $15.
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Lincoln and Liberty:
Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
by Roger Lee HallThis title is available in two formats:
- a CD with the 24 tracks listed above and playable on computer or CD player. The music includes both original and arranged versions of the songs and hymns from Abraham Lincoln's lifetime, performed by various artists. Available for a donation of $15.00.
- a multimedia CD-ROM with background information about Lincoln's love of music, an Abraham Lincoln image gallery, and the music album with 24 titles listed above, compiled by Roger Lee Hall from the American Music Recordings Collection, which contains over one hour of music written and heard during Abraham Lincoln's lifetime. Available for a donation of $20.00 or more.
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"Glory Hallelujah" - Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
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"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's EraBoth on one disc for a donation of $30 -- a 25% discount savings!
There are no video files on this disc but it contains complete texts and background information for the songs and hymns, plus image galleries for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War sheet music, and two music albums.
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