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13 Cards in this Set
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Bay Psalm Book
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-1640
-First printed book in British colonies -Words/ Poems only, NOT music -1698 (9th edition) |
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An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes AND The Grounds and Rules of Musick, Explained
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-1721
-Introduction- by John Tufts -Ground and Rules by Thomas Walter -1st instruction books -Formed a point of contact b/w music as an art with a technical basis and a public motivated to learn that technique |
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Urania
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-1761
-James Lyon -First commerical tunebook in America -Emphasis on music, however HUGE monetary gain and thus economic incentive -Broad appeal- textless so worshipers of any denomination could sing them to their preferred psalter |
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The New-England Psalm-Singer
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-1770
-William Billings -First tunebook of exclusively American compositions -All tunes by one composer (Billings) -Customers= Singing schools and choirs |
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The Easy Instructor
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-1801
-1st shape note tune book -by Smith and Little -highly successful |
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The Salem Collection of Classic sacred Muisck
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-1805
-1st significant "reform" tunebook --beginning of reform movement against regular singing -"Ancient" music- simpler than fuguing tunes and anthems |
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The Boston Handel and Haydn Collection of Church Music
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Lowell Mason
-1822 -most influencial reform tunebook -hymns, not shape notes |
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The Kentucky Harmony
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-1816
-1st southern shape note book -by Anaias Davisson |
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The Christian Harmony, or Songster's Companion
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-1805
-by Jeremiah Ingalls -first tunebook with folk hymnals -put sacred words to folk songs -"first book to record revival tunes"- the catchy informal music that came into use at camp meetings and other religious conclaves sparked by the 2nd awakening -Despite this- was a failure at the time -most likely due to its unorthodox nature (George Pullen Jackson rediscovered it in the 20th C) |
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The Southern Harmony
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-1831 by William Walker
-first shape notebook from Deep South -600,000 copies sold |
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The Sacred Harp
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-1844 by White and King in Georgia
-most important shape note book; in print continuously today -emphasizes old favs over new pieces -rediscovered by George Jackson: this music type was continued in south and rest of country forgot about it, but Jackson realized that these songs are from 18th c New England and reacquaints country with this sacred harp music. -piece of large urban revival -reimported New England as old southern music -singers arrange themselves in a hollow square, with a row of chairs on each side assigned to each of the four parts: treble, alto, tenor, and bass.participants take turns in leading. the pitch at which the music is sung is relative. -mostly polyphonic texture. a lot of hymns |
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A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns
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1801
-compiled for Bethel Church in Philly by Reverend Richard Allen -first such book prepared for black congregation in America -followed format of metrical psalters: small and easily portable, devoted to multistanza poetry, without tunes -Allen likely wrote some of the music -first to put a key trait of oral African-American hymn singing into writing (call-and-response) |
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Slave Songs of the United States
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-New York, 1867
-Collected/published by Allen, Ware, Garrison -first anthology where black spirituals are preserved -purpose: educate freedmen on Sea Islands -136 melodies with texts, arranged geographically (South-Eastern slave states, Northern Seaboard Slave States, Inaldn Slave States, GUlf States). -sought to record slave culture and record a declining oral practice. Rhythm took precedence over placement/meaning of texts -contains chiefly sacred songs. "Shout" variety: a hymn of exalted spirits with strong rhythm. -published in unharmonized melodies |
