Interviews with several Shaker women singers in New Hampshire and Maine including some singing. This CD is useful for anyone interested in Shakers in the 20th century and American …

2016年7月23日 · Eighteen early Shaker songs, fifteen with texts and three without, arranged by Salli Terri and sung by the University of Kentucky Choristers under the direct...

From the arrival of the Shakers in America in 1774 through 1790, worship often featured vocal music similar to chanting traditions found in many other world religions. As the number of …

Many melodies are of extraordinary grace and beauty, and the Shaker song repertoire, though still relatively little known, is an important part of the American cultural heritage and of world …

2013年10月17日 · http://experience.hancockshakervillage.org This features several authentic songs and dances performed at Hancock Shaker Village.©2013 Hancock Shaker Village....

Shaker music, received mostly by spiritual inspiration rather than deliberate composition, is a product of one of America’s most unique communal religious experiences. The majority of …

Called Shakers by outsiders, due to their agitated movements during worship, they created a musical legacy of thousands of songs, some original, some adapted from outside sources. …

2018年4月26日 · Most early Shaker music is monodic, that is to say, composed of a single melodic line with no harmonization. The tunes and scales recall the folksongs of the British …

This is the largest multimedia collection about music of the Shakers and includes over 500 files, 100 audio examples, 10 videos. The collection was compiled by Roger Lee Hall, a Shaker …

Music has always played a central role in Shaker worship, from the folk music of the early Shakers, purged of worldly lyrics and accompanied by the fiddle, to the more traditional hymns …