PineTree Productions Proudly Presents...

Preserving Our Musical Past

A Deluxe DVD-R containing a massive collection of historical material on American music readable on any computer with Micosoft Word.

Included on the DVD-R are eight books and accompanying albums with nearly 300 music titles.

These are the eight books:

• A Guide To Film Music: Songs and Scores
• The Boston Peace Jubilees , 1869, 1872, 1889
• Old Stoughton: Singing Meetings and Concerts, 1760-1910
• Remembering Radio: Great Songwriters and Singers
• For the Love of Zion: 30 Shaker Spirituals
• Gentle Words: Shaker Music in the 20th Century
• How Happy Are They: 12 Shaker Spirituals
• The Story of 'Simple Gifts': Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song

 

 

The DVD-R is divided into 5 main topics:

I. CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
Composer Tributes
Three Composers: William Billings, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland.

II. FILM MUSIC
A Guide To Film Music (4th edition)

III. NEW ENGLAND MUSIC
Boston Peace Jubilees - 1869, 1872, 1889
Old Stoughton - Singing Meetings and Concerts, 1760-1910

IV. POPULAR SONGS
Remembering Radio - Great Songwriters and Singers
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Electric Elvis and Bill Randle
Two Centuries of American Songs, 1759-1859/ 1861-1961

V. SHAKER SPIRITUALS
Music Collections: For The Love Of Zion/ How Happy Are They
Song Monographs: Gentle Words/ Simple Gifts

Bonus Features:

A. 12 folders with nearly 300 music tracks

A CONVERSATION WITH AARON COPLAND (30 tracks)

LISTENER'S GUIDE TO FILM MUSIC (25 tracks)

BOSTON PEACE JUBILEE MUSIC (4 tracks)

FOUR NEW ENGLAND COMPOSERS: Dudley Buck, Edwin Arthur Jones, Charles E. Ives, George Whitefield Chadwick (12 tracks)

NEW ENGLAND CHORAL SAMPLER (30 tracks)

OLD STOUGHTON MUSIC SAMPLER - from America's oldest choral society (24 tracks)

REMEMBERING RADIO (24 tracks)

AMERICA IN SONG - Volume 1 (1768-1918) (32 tracks)

AMERICA IN SONG - Volume II (1861-1961) (32 tracks)

FOR THE LOVE OF ZION - Arrangements of Shaker Spirituals (30 tracks)

SIMPLE GIFTS OF SHAKER MUSIC - including best known Shaker song (25 tracks)

B. 2 bonus videos

MEMORABLE MOVIE MUSIC - film historian, Roger Hall,
speaks about the history of film songs and scores and
presents two video clips from films of the 1940s and 1950s.

SIMPLE GIFTS - performance of the popular Shaker song, "Simple Gifts,"
in the meeting house at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

 

If you were to purchase these items separately, it would cost over $200.

Now, for a limited time, you can obtain this massive collection of resource material,
nearly 300 music examples and 2 videos all on one DVD-R disc,
playable on any computer.

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