Massachusetts music
Music from Stoughton
Lectures and Workshops
 
 

 

 

Honoring historic vocal music from earlier America...

 

 

 


"LAND OF OUR HEARTS" -
From Pilgrims To Patriots
(PTME 1046)



 


This collection is available exclusively on a multimedia DVD-ROM playable on a computer or separate CD/ DVD drive.

A lot of the vocal music in earlier America has been neglected for far too long.

This collection seeks to help correct that neglect and has been carefully researched and compiled by Roger Hall, a musicologist and Director of the Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP). He has collected extensive material on music in America and this collection provides samples of vocal music between 1620 and 1920.

He was formerly Vice President and Historian for the Old Stoughton Musical Society - America's oldest singing society. He wrote to the Guinness Book of Records in 1994 to correct the error that the Handel & Haydn Society, founded in 1815, was not the oldest choral organization in America. Instead it was Old Stoughton, founded in 1786, and they added his correction in the Guinness Book.

 

These are the folders on the DVD-ROM:

01 Listening Guide - about the music listed below from the time of the Pilgrims to the World War I years.
Also includes a Supplement with singing meetings and concerts by America's oldest choral society from 1762 to 1912.

02 Music album: From Pilgrims to Patriots

1. Arrival in the New World (Pilgrims) - narration and Psalm 8
2. Psalm 23 (Pilgrims)
3. Thanksgiving - narration and Psalm 100 (Pilgrims)
4. 100 Psalm Tune New - Rev. John Tufts (first known original American tune, 1760s)
5. Captain Kidd (pirate ballad)
6. The Liberty Song - words by John Dickinson
7. British Grenadiers and Free America (same tune, different words)
8. Father and I went down to camp (tune: Yankee Doodle)
9. Chester - words and music by William Billings
10. Victory - music by Daniel Read
11. Coronation - music by Oliver Holden
12. Anthem of Praise - music by Supply Belcher
13. New Jerusalem - music by Jeremiah Ingalls
14. Dormant - Jacob French
15. Adams and Liberty - words by Robert Treat Paine/ tune: To Anacreon
16. The Star-Spangled Banner - arr. Robert Kemp/ tune: To Anacreon
17. My Country 'Tis Of Thee - arr. by Samuel F. Smith
18. Joy To The World - music by Lowell Mason
19. Narragansett Indian Hymn - Thomas Cummock
20. The Humble Heart - Shaker hymn by Eunice Wyeth and Thomas Hammond
21. Simple Gifts - Shaker dance song by Joseph Brackett
22. John Brown and Battle Hymn Of The Republic (same tune, different words)
23. Go Down, Moses - Afro-American spiritual
24. When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Patrick S. Gilmore
25. Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian (funeral song for President Abraham Lincoln) - George F. Root
26. Hymn of Peace - words: Oliver Wendell Holmes/ music: Matthias Keller (Boston Peace Jubilee, 1869)
27. Old Stoughton - Edwin A. Jones
28. Prayer of Thanksgiving (We gather together)
29. +Song of the Marching Men - music by Henry K. Hadley (Finale from THE NEW EARTH, 1919)
30. Land Of Our Hearts - music by George Whitefield Chadwick (World War I chorus)

 




03 About Father Kemp and his popular Old Folks Concerts in the 19th century,
including music examples and two of his music collections from 1874 and 1889,
plus an article about the early American version of "Auld Lang Syne."

04 Image gallery of original sheet music and other music related pictures.

05 NEW ENGLAND SONGSTER - a collection of songs with these categories:
Songs of Liberty, Songs of the Tunesmiths, Songs of the Shakers, Songs of Remembrance, Songs of War and Peace

06 Two video programs:


Video programs about the oldest singing tradition in New England, written and produced by Roger Lee Hall:

A Stoughton Musicfest - A Celebration of Local Composers and Musicians (1990). This one hour program celebrates music in Stoughton, Massachusetts - home to the oldest surviving musical society in the USA. Included in this video program is a short play, "William Billings teaches a singing school," about a typical 18th century New England school for teaching young people how to sing, taught by the Father of American Choral Music, William Billings from Boston (portrayed by a local actor). There are also performances by several soloists and an adult chorus, plus a combined Stoughton elementary school chorus, and high school instrumental ensemble.

Old Stoughton and The Grand Constitution (1987). This half hour program celebrates the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and
the Stoughton Musical Society's Constitution, both written in 1787. Included in the program is a short play, "The Grand Constutiton," featuring two local actors portraying musical society officers involved in the writing of their constituion with music performed by singers from the Old Stoughton Musical Society.

 

 

Hear sample audio files
(for online listening only)
click the links in this box:


 

 

 

A valuable educational resource for teaching,
historical research, or personal enjoyment!

This multimedia collection contains
text files, audio and video files
and is playable on any computer or compatible CD/DVD drive
but not a DVD player.
The cost per disc is $24.95 help support this
website devoted to American music preservation.
This cost includes shipping anywhere in the USA.

For other countries outside of the USA,
the book and New England Songster collection
but without the additional audio and video files
are available for the same price of $24.95.


This title is NOT available on Amazon or other outlets
and only available here.

Your order is payable to PineTree Productions,
owner of this website,
through safe and secure PayPal.

 

To order your copy of

LAND OF OUR HEARTS" From Pilgrims To Patriots

click on this button:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


To insure proper delivery in the USA,
please send an e-mail
and include your mailing address.

Send to:

Land of Our Hearts DVD-ROM

 


 

 

 

All the information on the Land of Our Hearts DVD-ROM was researched and compiled by musicologist and
American music preservationist, Roger Lee Hall, Director of the Center for American Music Preservation

He is available for a fee to speak at your school, historical organization, or other group about his extensive research
in music from earlier America. To contact him -- click here

 

 

This multimedia title is
available separately

 

"Give Us This Day"
Two Historical American Choral Traditions
(PTME 1054)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Please help support the educational mission of the

Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP)

CAMP


Return to top of this page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
   
   
 

© 2020 PineTree Productions. All Rights Reserved.