Shaker Music Collections

20 Shaker Music Collections

written and edited by

Roger Lee Hall

Special Multimedia Disc:

Now available to commemorate two anniversaries!

The 250th anniversary of their spiritual head, Mother Ann Lee,
and a few other Shakers arrival in America from England on August 6, 1774.
One of the Shaker hymns in this collection celebrates it and is titled:
"On the Landing of Mother Ann in America"

The 50th anniversary of Roger Hall
introducing composer, Aaron Copland,
to several Maine Shakers in Shaker Heights, Ohio
on November 9, 1974. It was their only meeting.

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Books and CDs

01.THE HAPPY JOURNEY: Thirty-Five Shaker Spirituals
Compiled by Miss Clara Endicott Sears
Edited by Roger L. Hall
Fruitlands Museums, Harvard, Massachusetts,1982

02. Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals
Music collection (The World of Shaker, 1992)
Compiled by Roger Hall

Accompanying CD (Sampler Records)

Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals

03. Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and The New Year

Music collection and CD (Sampler Records, 1995)

Compiled by Mitzie Collins and Colleen Liggett
Introduction and Notes by Roger Hall

Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and The New Year (Sampler)

04. LET ZION MOVE: Music of the Shakers
2 CD Box Set

music performed by Shaker singers
from New Hampshire and Maine
with a 72 page illustrated booklet
compiled and edited by Roger Hal
Rounder Records, 1999

05. "Come Life, Shaker Life" -
The Life and Music of Elder Issachar Bates
PineTree Press, 2004

06. "How Happy Are They":
Twelve Shaker Spirituals from Kentucky and Ohio
PineTree Music, 2007
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07. THE STORY OF SIMPLE GIFTS:
Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song
PineTree Press, 2010

08. Gentle Words:
The Meaning and Message of Shaker Music
PineTree Press, expanded 3rd edition, 2019
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09. "SIMPLE GIFTS":
Great American Folk Song
PineTree Press, 2014/2nd ed, 2019/ 3rd ed, 2024
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10. Invitation To Zion:
A Shaker Music Guide
PineTree Productions, 2021
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Multimedia Discs:

01. "GIVE GOOD GIFTS":
Shaker Music in the 20th Century
PineTree Press, 2015
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02. "The Humble Heart":
A Fifty Year Survey of Shaker Music
PineTree Productions, 2019
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03. "More Love":
A Shaker Music Legacy
PineTree Productions, 2020
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary
of this Ohio Shaker community in 1822:

04. "May We Ever Be United":
Music of the North Union, Ohio Shakers
PineTree Music, 2012/ 2nd edition, 2022
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A collection compiled from years
of interviews and music research:

05. Blended Together:
Interviews with The Shakers
PineTree Music, 2022

AMRC CD Series

01 -"Gentle Words":
A Shaker Music Sampler
AMRC CD 0016, 2009
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02 - "Celestial Praises":
A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals
AMRC CD 0017, 2013
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03 - "The Humble Heart":
Twenty-four Shaker Spirituals

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04 - "My Shaker Home":
Words & Music by Shaker Sisters

To read about Roger Lee Hall's
50 years of Shaker music activities --
click here