Shaker Music: A Manifestation of American Folk Culture

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312 pp. The first scholarly work published about Shaker music. Includes a social and historical background, commentary on development of text and tune, analysis of notation, theory , technical aspects, performance, and song types, with conclusions, collation of manuscript hymnals, appendix of printed hymnals, bibliography, index, and index of songs. Show more