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"MILLENNIAL PRAISE"
Singing In Earlier America,
From The Pilgrims To The ShakersCompiled by Roger Lee Hall
This multimedia DVD, readable on any computer, contains music covering approximately 300 years in New England, from the landing of the Pilgrims to the last music published by the Shakers, or roughly from 1620 to about 1920.
It also contains all the lyrics and background notes for the music in a separate Word document.
Also included are two bonus features:--Music album with 30 examples of earlier American vocal music
--Video program: "A Stoughton Musicfest" - focusing on the history of the oldest choral society in the United States -- The Stoughton Musical Society, founded in 1786.
These are the 30 music examples:I. Pilgrims, Puritans, and Reformers
1. +PSALM 8 – Ainsworth Psalter, 1612/ tune: OLD 124th
2. PSALM 100 – Ainsworth Psalter, 1612/ tune: OLD 100th
3. PSALM 23 – Bay Psalm Book, 1698/ LOW DUTCH TUNE
4. 100 PSALM NEW – tune: Rev. John Tufts, 1720sII. Pirates and Native Peoples
5. Ballad: CAPTAIN KIDD (also known as: KIDD’S LAMENT)
6. NARRAGANSETT INDIAN HYMN or THE HYMN HEARD IN THE AIRIII. The Fight for Independence
7. THE LIBERTY SONG – words: John Dickinson/ tune: HEART OF OAK
8. FREE AMERICA – words: Dr. Joseph Warren/tune: BRITISH GRENADIERS9. FATHER AND I WENT DOWN TO CAMP -- tune: YANKEE DOODLE
10. CHESTER – words and music: William Billings, 1770/ 1778/ 1786
11. THANKSGIVING HYMN – Unknown author/ tune: KITTERY, 1778
IV. Singing Masters
12. THE BIRD – music: William Billings, 1790
13. +VICTORY – music: Daniel Read, 1793
14. JUBILANT – music: Supply Belcher, 1794
15. NEW JERUSALEM – music: Jeremiah Ingalls, 1796
16. +DORMANT – music: Jacob French, 1802
V. Federalism
17. ADAMS AND LIBERTY – poem: Thomas R.T. Paine, 1798/
tune: TO ANACREONVI. The War of 1812
18. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER – poem: Francis Scott Key, 1814
tune: TO ANACREON
19. +PEACE – poem: Esther Talbot, 1814/ music: Roger Lee Hall, 1981VII. Father Kemp and The Old Folks Concerts
20. +SONG OF THE OLD FOLKS – words: Albert Laighton, 1855
tune: AULD LANG SYNE
VIII. The Civil War and National Peace Jubilee
21. +JOHN BROWN – words: 1861/ BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
– poem: Julia Ward Howe, 1862 (original published versions)
22. GO DOWN, MOSES -- Afro-American Spiritual, about 1862
23. +GIVE US THIS DAY – words and music: Stephen Foster, 1863
24. +ANGEL OF PEACE – poem: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1869/
music: AMERICAN HYMN by Matthias Keller
IX. The Gilded Age25. +HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS – music: Edwin A. Jones, 1881
26. +EASTER CAROL – music: Charles E. Ives, 1892
27. +HOW LOVELY SHINES THE MORNING STAR – George W. Chadwick, 1909
X. Shaker Spirituals
28. +SIMPLE GIFTS – Elder Joseph Brackett Jr., 1848
29. +GENTLE WORDS – Sister Polly R. Rupe, 1867/1914
30. +MILLENNIAL PRAISE – Elder James G. Russell, 1883/1908
+ = First recording
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"MILLENNIAL PRAISE"
Singing In Eartlier America,
From The Pilgrims To The Shakers
(Multimedia Heritage Music Series No. 8)
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