From the Center for American Music Preservation

 

Shaker Music Preservation Archive

Color print showing a Shaker round dance
with a chorus of singers in the middle

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

An Important Research Collection!

 

This deluxe multi-media collection, compiled by Shaker music scholar, Roger Lee Hall, from many years of research, is available on a DVD playable on your computer with Microsoft Word and Real Player or compatible software.

It is essential for any library or archive with Shaker materials, and useful for those writing a scholarly paper, article, book, planning a concert performance, or producing a recording.

To read about how to order this multimedia collection with over 500 files -- click here

 


 

 

 

 

Shaker Song Series

56 Shaker songs and hymns
which appeared in The Shaker Messenger magazine

 

 

Shaker Music History

 

"Give Good Gifts"
Shaker Music in the 20th Century

 

 


"The Humble Heart"
A Fifty year Survey of Shaker Music

 

 

"Invitation to Zion"
A Shaker Music Guide

 


"May We Ever Be United" -
Music of the North Union, Ohio Shakers

 

 

 

"Simple Gifts"
Great American Folk Song

 

 

 

 

 


 

Three AMRC Shaker Music CDs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Singing by the Shakers

 

"Blended Together" - Interviews with The Shakers

 

 

 

 

 

This 2 CD set includes 40 Shaker spirituals sung by the Shakers from Canterbury, New Hampshire and Sabbathday Lake, Maine. It includes a history of Shaker music narrated by Sister R. Mildred Barker and Sister Lillian Phelps. There are also interviews with Sister R. Mildred Barker, Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and Sister Lillian Phelps.

The interviews were done in 1960 by William (Bill) Randle, and in 1972 and 1980 by Roger Hall, who has written the extensive notes for this unique historical collection.

The set also has an attractive 72 page illustrated booklet with examples of Shaker music and the words to all 40 Shaker spirituals plus a bibliography and discography.

 

You can order the 2 CD set from Amazon.com at this link:

Let Zion Move: Music of the Shakers

 

 

 

 

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