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Contents

eBooks

Research Information and Requests

Classical Composer Tributes

Film Music

Recordings and Surveys

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eBooks

These eBooks were written by Roger Hall about his early life and
music career:

"Dream World" - Songs, Poems and Stories

"Following the Stars" - Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy

"Free As The Breeze" - Confessions of a Struggling Songwriter

NEW!

Celebrating the Lincoln Bicentennial, 1809-2009

Now available is a Listener's Guide with all the lyrics and notes for the 24 tracks on the CD available from the American Music Recordings Collection. The eBook also contains additional material such as: original sheet music illustrations and a Lincoln portrait gallery. Both the guide and CD are titled:

"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era

The story behind the best known Shaker song.

An illustrated eBook tells the background about the song and its composer, and titled: THE STORY OF SIMPLE GIFTS: Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song. It includes biographical information about Joseph Brackett and chapters devoted to Aaron Copland's arrangements of "Simple Gifts," and "Lord of the Dance" by Sydney Carter.

A new piece by film composer John Williams
was based on the Shaker song. Titled, "Air and Simple Gifts,"
it was premiered during the Inauguration Day ceremonies for
President Barrack H. Obama on 20 January 2009.

Research Information

NEW!

This illustrated booklet and accompanying CD
have resulted from thirty-five years of research by
Shaker music scholar,
Roger Lee Hall.

Click on these links to read more:

Booklet: Gentle Words -- Shaker Music in the 20th Century

CD: Gentle Words -- A Shaker Music Sampler

Order both the booklet and CD together
at a special discount price at the Store

Read about Benjamin Franklin's musical instrument (reproduction shown at left) which he called his Armonica (or glass harmonica) at this link:

Massachusetts Music

NEW!

Some of Franz Joseph Haydn's works received their first U.S. performances in Massachusetts. Read about the list of early performances at

Haydn in Massachusetts