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Honoring vocal music from earlier America...
This collection is available exclusively on a multimedia DVD-ROM playable on a computer or separate CD/ DVD drive.
A lot of the vocal music in earlier America has been neglected for far too long.
This collection seeks to help correct that neglect and has been compiled and edited by Roger Lee Hall, a musicologist and Director of the Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP). He has collected this choral music providng examples between 1620 and 1920 with a focus on music in New England.
These are the folders on the DVD-ROM:
01 Book: SINGING NEW ENGLANDERS: From Pilgrims To Shakers (PineTree Press).
It includes a supplement listing singing meetings and concerts from 1762 to 1912 by Old Stoughton Musical Society (America's oldest surviving choral society).02 Music album: From Pilgrims to Patriots
1. Arrival in the New World (Pilgrims) - narration and Psalm 8
2. Psalm 23 (Pilgrims)
3. Thanksgiving - narration and Psalm 100 (Pilgrims)
4. 100 Psalm Tune New - Rev. John Tufts (first known original American tune)
5. Captain Kidd (pirate ballad)
6. The Liberty Song - words by John Dickinson
7. British Grenadiers and Free America (same tune, different words)
8. Father and I went down to camp (tune: Yankee Doodle)
9. Chester - words and music by William Billings
10. Victory - music by Daniel Read
11. Coronation - music by Oliver Holden
12. Anthem of Praise - music by Supply Belcher
13. New Jerusalem - music by Jeremiah Ingalls
14. Dormant - Jacob French
15. Adams and Liberty - words by Robert Treat Paine/ tune: To Anacreon
16. The Star-Spangled Banner - arr. Robert Kemp/ tune: To Anacreon
17. My Country 'Tis Of Thee - arr. by Samuel F. Smith
18. Joy To The World - music by Lowell Mason
19. +Old Narragansett Indian Hymn - Thomas Cummock
20. The Humble Heart - Shaker hymn by Eunice Wyeth and Thomas Hammond
21. Simple Gifts - Shaker dance song by Joseph Brackett
22. John Brown and Battle Hymn Of The Republic (same tune, different words)
23. Go Down, Moses - Afro-American spiritual
24. When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Patrick S. Gilmore
25. Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian (funeral song for President Abraham Lincoln) - George F. Root
26. Hymn of Peace - words: Oliver Wendell Holmes/ music: Matthias Keller (written for Boston Peace Jubilee, 1869)
27. Old Stoughton (Now to the Lord a noble song) - Edwin A. Jones
28. Prayer of Thanksgiving (We gather together)
29. +Song of the Marching Men - music by Henry K. Hadley (Finale from THE NEW EARTH, 1919)
30. Land Of Our Hearts - music by George Whitefield Chadwick (complete World War I work for chorus, 1918)+ One of the verses for Old Narragansett Indian Hymn:
My soul doth magnify the Lord, My spirit doth rejoice
In God my Saviour, and my God, I hear a joyful voice.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hosanna, Hosanna,
Halllelujah, Hallelujah, Hosanna, Hosanna.An arrangement of this hymn for voice and piano by music preservationist and composer, Roger Lee Hall, is availabe separately.
To request a free copy of the arrangement sent by email attachment -- click here
03 About Father Kemp and his popular Old Folks Concerts in the 19th century,
including music examples and two of his music collections from 1874 and 1889,
plus an article about the early American version of "Auld Lang Syne."04 Image gallery of original sheet music and other music related pictures.
05 NEW ENGLAND SONGSTER - a collection of songs with these categories:
Songs of Liberty, Songs of the Tunesmiths, Songs of the Shakers, Songs of Remembrance, Songs of War and Peace
06 Two video programs:
Video programs about the oldest singing tradition in New England, written and produced by Roger Lee Hall:
A Stoughton Musicfest - A Celebration of Local Composers and Musicians (1990). This program celebrates music performed in Stoughton, Massachusetts - home to the oldest surviving musical society in the USA. Included in this video program is a short play, "William Billings teaches a singing school," about a typical 18th century New England school for teaching young people how to sing, taught by William Billings from Boston (portrayed by a local actor). There are also performances by several soloists and an adult chorus, plus a combined Stoughton elementary school chorus, and high school instrumental ensemble.
(60 minutes)Old Stoughton and The Grand Constitution (1987). This half hour program celebrates the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and
the Stoughton Musical Society's Constitution, both written in 1787. Included in the program is a short play, "The Grand Constutiton," featuring two local actors portraying musical society officers involved in the writing of their constituion with music performed by singers from the Old Stoughton Musical Society.
(30 minutes)
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A valuable educational resource for classroom teaching,
historical research for a book or article,
or for your personal interest and enjoyment!
This multimedia collection contains
PDF files, audio examples and video files
and is playable on any computer or compatible CD/DVD drive
but not a DVD movie player.
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the Center for American Music Preservation.
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LAND OF OUR HEARTS" From Pilgrims To Patriots
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He is available to speak at your organization or group by Zoom or in person about his extensive research
in vocal music from earlier America.See his list of music lectures -- here
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