The Center for American Music Preservation

announces a major multimedia collection
of research and recordings

Learn about two of the oldest singing traditions in the USA
on this multimedia DVD-ROM for computer.

Both traditions began in the 18th century
and still exist today in New England:

The Old Stoughton Musical Society

The United Society of Shakers

"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" -
Two Historic American Choral Traditions
(AMRE No. 6)

This multimedia collection includes an extesnive amount of information
compiled over four decades with over 450 files on the disc,
including over 150 music examples and several videos,
plus sheet music, concert programs, and other historical information.

The extensive resource collection
was written, compiled and edited from over four decades of research
by American music preservationist, Roger Lee Hall.

There are many premiere recordings of music on the disc,
including the title hymn, "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" (shown above)
words and music by America's first great songwriter,
Stephen C. Foster, and first recorded by
The Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus, Earl Eyrich, Director

DVD Contents in these main folders:

• Biographical information
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Music from Stoughton
  The Stoughton Musical Society (organized on November 7, 1786)
  (renamed The Old Stoughton Musical Society in 1908) -
  Publications:
  --E.A. Jones: His Life and Music (1984)
  --Music in Stoughton: A Brief Survey (1985)
  --Singing Stoughton (1989)
  --The Stoughton Songster (1991)
  --Ten Town Tunes: Music in Stoughton, 1770-1990 (1998)
  
  
  
  
  
• Music of the Shakers
  The United Society of Shakers (first organized community in 1787)
  Publications:
  --"Blended Together" - Discoveries Along The Shaker Music Trail (2011)
  --"Gentle Words" - Shaker Music in the 20th Century (2011)
  --"May We Ever Be United" - Music of the North Union, Ohio Shakers (2017)
  --"Mount Zion" - A Western Shaker Music Sampler (1976)
  --"Simple Gifts" - Elder Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song (2010)
  
  
• Images galleries - sheet music, concert programs, and more
  
  
• Recordings
  --"Musick in Old Boston" - Concert with The Old Stoughton Musical Society in 1980
  --"Singing Stoughton" - examples of tunes performed in concerts
  --"Celestial Praises" - Shaker music recordings
  --"Simple Gifts" - examples of the best known Shaker song
  
  
• Concert videos
  --"A Stoughton Musicfest" (cable television celebration of local composers and musicians, 1990)
  --"A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals" (concert highlights with The Canterbury Singers, 2013)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sample tunes from this collection:
  
  
  
  
  "Stoughton" music by William Billings, 1770
  text by Isaac Watts/ edited by Roger Hall
  
  
  
  
  "Old Stoughton" music by Edwin Arthur Jones, 1886
  
  
  The Premiere recordings of both titles are included on this album on the disc:
  
  "Old Stoughton" - The Stoughton Harmony
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Simple Gifts" - Shaker dancing song by Elder Joseph Brackett Jr.
  edited and arranged by Roger Hall (Premiere Recording)
  
  
  
  Both Shaker hymn and dancing song are included on this CD:

  

  CELESTIAL PRAISES - A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals (AMRC CD 0017)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The multimedia computer disc
is ideal for musicians, historians,
classroom teachers, libraries,
researchers, and students.

Order your copy of this valuable research collection today!

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"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" -
Two Historic American Choral Music Traditions
Compiled and Edited by Roger Lee Hall

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