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From the Center for American Music Preservation
Shaker Music Preservation Archive
19th century print showing a Shaker round dance
with a chorus of singers in the middle of the circle
An Important Resource Collection!
This deluxe multi-media collection,
compiled by Shaker music scholar, Roger Lee Hall,
from many years of research, is available on a DVD-ROM or USB Flash Drive.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,
producing a film, play, or 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
Four Shaker Music Collections
"The Humble Heart"
A Fifty year Survey of Shaker Music
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"Invitation to Zion"
A Shaker Music Guide
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"May We Ever Be United" -
Music of the North Union, Ohio Shakers
"Simple Gifts"
Great American Folk Song
Four Audio Albums
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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.
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