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"Music refines the taste, purifies the heart, and elevates our nature. It does more: it soothes in sorrow, tranqillizes in passion, and wears away the irritabilities of life. It intensifies love, it fires the patriotism, and makes the altar of our devotion burn
with a purer, holier fire."
-- W.W. Hall
Hall's Journal of Health for 1862
Announcements
As with other artistic creations, including paintings, literature and classic films,
there is a need to preserve neglected American music from the past.There is also a need to provide accurate information,
especially about early American music.American Music Preservation.com is a website devoted to providing useful information and news of research and publications.
But this site is not a free answering service for locating songs
or recordings. A Search Fee must be charged for any items
that are requested involving considerable research.General questions may be answered without a fee.
For questions or for those who wish to assist in any way
the cause of American music preservation, write to:
There are many titles available for research or listening in the
American Music Recordings Collection
If you are a researcher, scholar, or musician and would you like to submit an item for possible FREE placement on American Music Preservation,
click on this link:Because American music is so vast a subject,
not all of it can be covered at this website.
This is not intended to slight any other music, such as Blues or Jazz.These five areas were selected because it was felt
they were most in need of preservation:
New England Music
Shaker Music
Classical Composers
Film Music
Popular Songs
Most of the information on this web site is about earlier American music
from the
17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Mission Statement
The goals of American Music Preservation.com are
- To Present...
information about American music from the 17th to 20th centuries, especially neglected areas or events.
For example: the Chicago World's Fair Concerts of 1893.- To Preserve...
music from lesser known as well as familiar composers.
For example: the unjustly neglected Edwin Arthur Jones.- To Promote...
worthwhile music for today's audience through rare recordings.
For example: the American Music Recordings Collection.- To Protect...
by giving proper credit to the songwriter or composer.
For example: the song not co-written by Elvis Presley - "Love Me Tender."- To Provide...
accurate information about a piece of music.
For example: the popular Shaker song - "Simple Gifts (Tis the gift to be simple) "
Essential American Recordings
Now in preparation
for
the 250th anniversary of the
FIRST SONG WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN
is a list of recommended recordings
of earlier American songs from 1759 to 1959.The recordings will include American patritoic, classical, folk, jazz, stage & screen, country & western, rock, rhythm & blues, and other music.
These recordings will be based partly on these lists of
50 Essential American Songs, 1759-1860
100 Essential American Songs, 1861-1961
Funds are needed to publish this important survey in 2009.
If you know of a possible publisher or
would like to help fund this needed preservation project, write to:
Help support the mission of
American Music Preservation.com
Use this Search Box for your purchases:
Contents
American Music Preservation Sampler
20 tracks with over one hour of music.
This AMP Sampler is for non-commercial use only.
The CD-R contains examples from all five areas covered on this web site....
New England Music:
"Psalm 100" (Bay Psalm Book)
"Chester" (William Billings, 2 versions: 1778 & 1786)
"John Brown" & "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861-62)
"Song of the Old Folks" (Auld Lang Syne tune/ New England version, 1855)Shaker Music:
"The Shakers" -- Elder Richard McNemar (ca. 1810)
"Followers of the Lamb" -- Sister Clarissa Jacobs (ca. 1847)
"We Must Be Meek" -- from the singing of Sister Mildred Barker
"Love is Little" -- South Union, Kentucky (1834)Classical Composers:
"Prelude & Fugue in G minor for organ -- Edwin A. Jones
"Festival Hymn" -- Dudley Buck
"Easter Carol" -- Charles Ives
"Chorale" from NOEL -- George W. ChadwickFilm Music:
THE INFORMER -- Max Steiner
OF MICE AND MEN -- Aaron Copland
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER -- Bernard Herrmann
GIANT -- Dimitri TiomkinPopular Songs:
"For Your Country and My Country" -- Irving Berlin
"Accentuate the Positive" -- Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
"Dream World" -- Roger Lee Hall
"Thanks for the Memory" -- Leo Robin & Ralph RaingerThis AMP Sampler is available for a donation of $20.00 per copy and includes copying costs and shipping.
To order your copy of this CD-R, write to:
For other music orders, go to the
available at these links...
Christmas Music in New England
New England Music Archive: Top 40 from the Past
Singing Stoughton and the Oldest Choral Society in the U.S.
Shaker Music: The Story of SIMPLE GIFTS
CD: For the Love of Zion -- Shaker Music
"Simplicity" Vocal Quartet
National Carry A Tune Week
(October 5 - 11, 2008)
This is a Free Web Survey sponsored by The Tune Lovers Society
To read about the 2008 event, go to:
The lists for this annual event are available at these links:
National Carry A Tune Week 2007
National Carry A Tune Week 2006
National Carry A Tune Week 2005
National Carry A Tune Week 2001 - 2004
See the list of composers and songwriters from the past chosen for the
Classical Music
Popular Songs
50 Essential American Songs (1759 - 1859)
100 Essential American Songs (1861 - 1961)
Popular SongwritersNew England Music
Singing Stoughton and the Oldest Choral Society in the U.S.
Film Music Review (online magazine)
Society for Earlier American Music [SEAM]
Help support the mission of
American Music Preservation.com
Use this Search Box for your purchases:
Click here to buy your music and other favorite posters!
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