Voce - Linea Melodica
Autore:Patterson Daniel W.
Titolo:The Shaker Spiritual
2 edition September 2000, 562 pages
Editore:Dover

The largest and most balanced collection of its type to date, this volume presents 366 songs from the Shaker repertory. In addition, it features quotes from interviews and unpublished diaries, numerous photographs of Shaker singers and villages, reconstructions and diagrams of nearly 20 Shaker dances and marches, a checklist of 800 Shaker song manuscripts, and a survey of British antecedents of the American folk spiritual. "The finest piece of scholarship in the field of Shaker studies written in this century." — Theodore E. Johnson, Director, Shaker Library and Museum.

This volume presents 366 songs from the Shaker repertory.
In addition, it features quotes from interviews and unpublished diaries, numerous photographs
of Shaker singers and villages, reconstructions and diagrams of nearly 20 Shaker dances and
marches, a checklist of 800 Shaker song manuscripts, and a survey of British antecedents of the American folk spiritual

La più grande e più equilibrata raccolta di questo tipo, questo volume presenta 366 canzoni del repertorio Shaker. Inoltre contiene citazioni, interviste, diari inediti, numerose fotografie di cantanti Shaker e schemi di quasi 20 danze,marce, un elenco di 800 canzoni Shaker manoscritte e uno studio sugli spirituals.

Contents:

Early Forms of British and American Religious Folk Songs
The Institutional Background of Shaker Song
The Relation of the Shaker Spiritual to Traditional Song
A Note on Shaker Notation and My Tune Transcriptions


Shaker Spirituals

Songs of the Gospel Parents
Mother Ann Lee
Father William Lee
father James Whittaker

Solemn Songs

Early Laboring Songs
The Back Manner
The Holy Order
The Skipping Manner
The Turning Shuffle
The Regular Step
The Drumming Manner
The Walking Manner

Ballads

Hymns

Extra Songs

Occasional Songs

Anthems

Laboring Songs of the Middle Period
The Quick Dance
The Round Dance
The Square Step
The Hollow Square
The Circular March
The Square March
The Changeable March
The Coumpound March

Gift Songs from Mothers Work

The Square March
Laboring Songs from Mothers Work

The Heavenly March
The Square Ceck
The Antediluvian Square Shuttle

Later Laboring Songs
The Quick March
The Slow March

Later Hymns and Extra Songs

Epilogue
Checklist of Shaker Song Manuscripts
Checklist of Additional Manuscripts Cited
Index of Persons and Subjects

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