A Major Music Collection

from over 50 years of research and recordings!

 

 

cover by GMH design

 

This is the largest multimedia collection

about music of the Shakers

and includes over 500 files,

with 100 audio examples and 10 videos.

 

The collection was compiled by Roger Lee Hall, a Shaker music preservationist

and musicologist who has researched and performed Shaker music for over 50 years.

He is also a composer who has arranged many Shaker tunes, including "Simple Gifts."

Mr. Hall has presented many Shaker music lectures and research papers over the years

at colleges, churches, museums and other locations in these states

where Shakers had communities:

Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Kentucky, Ohio.

Also, he has presented scholarly papers on Shaker music

at the American Musicological Society Conference in Washington, D.C.,

Communal Studies Association, Shaker Seminar, and other conferences.

He has been a singer or consultant on 15 CDs with Shaker music.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s he interviewed several Shaker singers

in New Hampshire and Maine

and highlights from those interviews are included in this collection.

This massive collection is published by PineTree Press

and published in commemoration of two important anniversaries:

1. The 250th anniversary of their spiritual head, Mother Ann Lee,

and a few other Shakers first arrival in America in 1774

 

2. The 50th anniversary of composer Aaron Copland,

arranger of the Shaker dance song, "Simple Gifts,"

meeting several Shakers from Maine who were

in Shaker Heights, Ohio for a teacher workshop.

They were introduced thanks to Roger Hall.

The meeting took place on November 9, 1974.

An audio album is included on "A Shaker Music Miscellany"

from the Shaker Heights teacher workshop

where the Shakers speak about their heritage and sing a few songs.

Here Aaron Copland meets Sister Mildred Barker:

© Picture by Gail M. Hall, 1974

 

One of the tunes in this multimedia collection

tells about their first and most important spiritual head titled:

"On the Landing of Mother Ann in America"

This hymn from North Union, Ohio was edited by Roger Hall

and first performed in 1974 at the three-day conference in Cleveland, Ohio

celebrating the bicentennial of the Shakers first arrival in America on August 6, 1774.

Here is the first verse of this hymn:

O hail this happy welcome day
When blessed Mother Ann
First landed in America
With her devoted band.

How did the wilderness resound
With Angel's songs of praise
When they on fair Columbia's ground
The gospel standard raised.

Chorus:
Again let the forest loudly resound,
Dear children of Mother;
Her beautiful way our Spirits have found
Surpassing all others.

To listen to this hymn performed by The Sampler Chorus

from the CD, "Joy of Angels" -- click here

 

  

Here are the folders on "A Shaker Music Miscellany"

edited by Roger Lee Hall:

 

01 - Introduction, Images and Information

02 - A Checklist of Published Shaker Hymnals

03 - "Mother Ann's Song" - Mother Ann Lee (1783)

04 - "The Humble Heart" (hymn) -
Eunice Wyethe (text)/ Thomas Hammond (tune)

05 - "Come Life, Shaker Life" (dance song)- Issachar Bates

06 - "Followers of the Lamb" (hymn) - Clarissa Jacobs

07 - "Simple Gifts" (dance song) - Joseph Brackett

08 - "On The Landing Of Mother Ann In America" (hymn)

09 - "Blended Together" (song) - Joseph Holden

10 - "Millennial Praise" (anthem) - James G. Russell

11 - "Give Good Gifts" (song) - Martha Jane Anderson

12 - "My Shaker Home" (song)- Lillian Phelps (1959)

13 - Audio: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Workshop in Ohio (1974)

14 - Audio: Interviews with Shakers from Canterbury & Sabbathday Lake (1972-1987)

15 - Audio: Radio appearances with Roger Hall
about Shaker music (1978, 1992)

16 - Videos: Choral concert (2013) and rare 1960s TV program

 

Please Note:

If you would rather order just one or more of the 10 Shaker tunes listed above,
you can order them separately for a reduced price.

To read how to order any of the above Shaker tune separately -- go here

 

 

Now available on either one DVD-R in a slipcase or on a USB Flash Drive!

The extesnive collection contains

Word documents(PDF), numerous audio and video examples

including singing by the Shakers

and an interview with composer, Aaron Copland.

This multi-media collection is only available here and

not at any other web store outlets.

 

 

 

For this special multi-media collection, the price is $24. 95 including shipping
(USA orders only). .

When you place your order, please indicate if you wish the title on one DVD-ROM or one USB Flash Drive.

To place your order, click the "Add to Cart" for payment to PineTree Productions through safe and secure PayPal.

 

 

 

 

 

After you have sent in your payment,
please send an e-mail
indicating if you wish this title on DVD-ROM or USB

Send your email to --

A Shaker Music Miscellany

 

For any questions -- click here

 

Roger Lee Hall is a Shaker music scholar who can present a music program

in person or as a Zoom or podcast talk.

He can present a program about the best-known Shaker song,

"Simple Gifts" (aka: Tis the gift to be simple),

or on some other Shaker music topic.


To contact him about a possible program -- click here.

 

Here are three AMRC CDs with his arrangements and editions of Shaker music:

 

 

 

 

This book available separately contains information about Shaker music and has

interviews with several Shakers in New Hampshire and Maine

and with composer, Aaron Copland.

It also has the lyrics for 25 Shaker spirituals

and includes a supplement with

a four Shaker spirituals arranged by Roger Lee Hall.

Click this picture to read more about the book:

 

 

 

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