25th anniversary for the CAMP!

 

Making American music come alive again!

 

 

The Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP) was established to help preserve historical American music
from the past so it will survive into the future. There are many samples of music on this website for reading.

Your support is needed and appreciated especially for those writing about, performing, or teaching American music.

Please consider ordering the limited edition AMERICAN PLACES CD below with over one hour of enjoyable piano music.

If you are unable to offer any finacnial support, please mention this website in your publication, research, teaching or to your friends.

For any questions or comments about the CAMP website -- click here


These are the most visited pages from September to December 2023:

No. 1: RELIGIOUS MUSIC - Music of the American Shakers - Resources and Recordings

No. 2: CLASSICAL MUSIC - American Composers: From The Colonial Era To Our Time

No. 3: FILM MUSIC - Film Music Review (now celebrating its 25th anniversary)

No. 4: CHORAL MUSIC: Singing Stoughton - America's Oldest Choral Society, founded in 1786

No. 5: POPULAR MUSIC - Popular Songs: From Civil War to Cold War

 

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, All Teachers!

Do you teach some area of American music in your classes?
Are you looking for recordings to play in your class?


For the list of over 50 CD titles and 25 individual audio examples,
see the American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC) -- click here

 

For the list in 60 titles on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
in the resource series -
PineTree Multimedia Editions (PTME) -- click here

 

 


Roger Lee Hall is Director of the Center for American Music Preservation (or CAMP).

He has been very active for over 50 years as: Composer, Ethnomusicologist, Musicologist, Lecturer, Singer and Teacher.

His primary research has been on vocal music in earlier America, especially the 18th and 19th centuries,
with a focus on two of the oldest choral traditions: The American Shakers and The Stoughton Musical Society.

For his extensive publications and teaching in American music,
he has been listed in the International Who's Who in Music, Who's Who in America,
Who's Who in American Education
, and other directories.

To read about his latest book on favorite songs he has enjoyed during his life,
see this link:

"Gentle Peace" - Songs For Survival (PineTree Press)

 

Two AMRC CDs with his music compositions:




 

 

Your History - Your Story podcast:

You can listen to how his music career developed
and how he later became an American Music Preservationist (AMP).

Click on any of these links to listen to the audio podcast
and consider supporting the worthwhile Your History - Your Story podcast too:

Apple
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-history-your-story/id1535889414?i=1000611257078

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mS6z5JjFwUapMnp3jk5XJ?si=lYjF4XNiT7iHmZmD7qCF9w

YouTube
https://youtu.be/aPlzapgMVkM

Support Your History/Your Story Podcast & become a patron! 

http://patreon.com/YourHistoryYourStoryPodcast


 

 

Coming Soon!


Otto H. Kahn (1867-1934) was one of America's wealthiest citizens in the early 20th century and his beautiful Oheka Castle was the second largest private residence in America. He spent considerable time and money in support of music. He was a major supporter of the Metropolitan Opera in New York in its early years
and brought major opera people from Europe, especially the famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso.

Kahn also helped support many musicians and actors on Broadway, including composer, George Gershwin, and actor, Paul Robeson.

A virtual program will be presented with pictures, audio and video examples titled:


"Otto Kahn: A Personal Connection with the Gilded Age Music Patron"

This virtual program will be presented by Roger Hall on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 5:30-7:00 p.m.


Read how to sign up for this special program from the New York Adventure Club -- go here

 

A special 250th anniversary tribute to the music of the American Shakers, who arrived in America from England in 1774,
and for over two centuries composed thousands of anthems, hymns and songs, more than any communal sect in America.

Their earliest existing songs in America are from the 1780s and their last song was composed in 1959.

Some of the earliest religious music composed by women in America was by the Shakers,
including their most revered spiritual leader, Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784).

One of her early songs is on this AMRC CD which has received high praise from listeners:



© CD cover picture on American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC 0048)

2024 also marks the 50th anniversary of American composer, Aaron Copland, meeting several Shakers
for the first and only time in Shaker Heights, Ohio, introduced by Roger Hall.

Watch for the special publication about music of the Shakers and Aaron Copland's meeting the Shakers in 1974.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another anniversary is in Stoughton, Massachusetts, home to the oldest choral society in America -
The Old Stoughton Musical Society, organized in 1786.

The year 2024 marks the 250th anniversary of the First Singing School in America with all the pupils listed.
It was taught during the winter of 1774 by Boston composer, William Billings (1746-1800).

The above old photo shows the remodeled Robert Capen house where in 1774 this singing school was held.
The house was later moved and extensively remodeled but it still stands near Stoughton Center.

Billings was the best known New England composer in 18th century America.
His Stoughton singing school had 49 pupils, consisting of young males and females.
One of his singing school pupils later became a composer himself, Jacob French (1754-1817).
In that singing school, Billings also met his future wife, Lucy Swan, and they lived in Boston where they had many children.

For more about William Billings and the singing society in Stoughton, see this publication:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Zoom program was presented in 2023, co-sponsored by The Shaker Historical Society and Shaker Heights Public Library,
celebrating the centennial of the birth of popular Cleveland disc jockey, William McKinley (Bill) Randle (1923-2004):

Roger Lee Hall was teaching assistant for Bill Randle in the 1970s at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
He told Roger about a movie short which featured the first professional footage of Elvis Presley when he was performing in Cleveland in 1955.
Dr. Randle also produced a large 10 LP album set, "The Shaker Heritage," which had recorded information about Shaker history, religion, poetry, music and other topics.
This LP collection was never released commercially. Many years later, Roger edited the music portion of that LP set and wrote extensive notes for a 72 page illustrated booklet that accompanies the 2-CD set with music and interviews titled:

 


To watch the 90 minute Zoom program, "Bill Randle in Cleveland: From Electric Elvis to The Shakers" with audio and video clips on YouTube -- click here

The Zoom program is based on this pdf book now available in a new illustrated 2nd edition:


To read about this book -- click here

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Music Guides Series:

No. 1: A GUIDE TO FILM MUSIC - Songs and Scores

 

No. 2: "Celebrate, Rejoice and Sing!" - A Guide to Christmas Music in America

 




No. 3: "DEDICATION" - A Guide to Singing Meeting and Concerts in Stoughton (America's Oldest Surviving Choral Society)

 


 

No. 4: "I GOT RHYTHM" - A Guide to Music on Radio and Films by George Gershwin

 

 

No. 5: "IN THE MOOD" - A Guide to Music On Radio

 

 

No. 6: "INVITATION TO ZION" - A Shaker Music Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four Shaker Music Collections:


Blended Together: Interviews with The Shakers

 

Book and accompanying CD available -- click here

 

 

"The Humble Heart" - A Fifty Year Survey of Shaker Music

 

 

"SIMPLE GIFTS" - Great American Folk Song

 

 

 

Shaker Music Series on CDs:

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


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so it can continue providing valuable music research and publications,
for historians, musicians, teachers, students and people interested in American music history.

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with over an hour of enjoyable music and including Free Shipping.

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Are you looking for recordings
for teaching or research?

Have a look at this extensive survey
compiled from the CAMP library --

Essential American Recordings Survey (E.A.R.S.)

200 Recordings (CDs and LPs), 1759-1959

To read the titles --

click here

 

 

Leonard Bernstein: The Total Musician

 

 

 

400 American Pop Hits

 

50 Song Hits of 1963

50 Song Hits of 1962

50 song hits from 1961

50 song hits from 1960

50 song hits from 1959

50 song hits from 1958

50 song hits from 1957

50 song hits from 1956

 

 



CAMP Reference Links

 

American Music Recordings Archive (AMRA)

American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)

Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS)

Film Music Review (FMR)


New England Music Archive (NEMA)

Popular Songwriters and The Great American Songbook

Multimedia American Music Series (MAMS)

Shaker Music Preservation Series (SMPS)

Music Heritage Series (SMHS)

Survey of Earlier American Music (SEAM)

 

For Contact -- click here

 

 

Resource Links

 


Classical Music

American Composers

American Composers Web Poll

Composer Anniversaries

Popular Songs

American Song History Survey

Popular Songwriters

 

 

New England Music

Massachusetts Music

New England Heritage Music

Singing Stoughton and the Oldest Choral Society in the U.S.A..

 

Other Links:

American Music Timeline, Part One - 1620-1818

American Music Timeline, Part Two - 1820-1920

American Music Resource Editions (AMRE)

PineTree Music Multimedia Editions (PTME)

 

 

 

Recommended American Music Websites

 

International Center For American Music (ICAMUS)- Aloma Bardi, Founder/President

ICAMus - The International Center for American Music promotes knowledge and appreciation of American music and music making in the US. The Center maintains an inclusive orientation towards musical life in the United States, from its beginning to contemporary time. Significant attention is devoted to Early American Music. The Organization focuses on the study of musical sources, and on the unity and integration of research, teaching, performance, and experimentation.

Society for American Music (SAM) - Web Resources

The mission of the Society for American Music (SAM) is to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation and study of American musics of all eras and in all their diversity, including the full range of activities and institutions associated with these musics throughout the world.

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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