The largest collection of recorded Shaker music available anywhere!

  

 

Ethnomusicologist and composer, Roger Lee Hall,
has prepared ten representative Shaker tunes.

It is available in two different formats:

The complete collection (shown above) with over 500 files and 100 audio examples all together on one DVD-ROM (or USB). To order that version -- go here

 

 

If you would prefer to order any of the 10 Shaker spirituals:

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

02 - "The Humble Heart" (ca. 1820) - Eunice Wyeth/ Thomas Hammond

03 - "Come Life, Shaker Life" (ca. 1835) - Issachar Bates

04 - "Followers of the Lamb" (1847) - Clarissa Jacobs

05 - "Simple Gifts" (1848) - Joseph Brackett

06 - "On The Landing Of Mother Ann In America" (1860)

07 - "Blended Together" (ca, 1870)- Joseph Holden

08 - "Millennial Praise" (1883) - James G. Russell

09 - "Give Good Gifts" (ca, 1890) - Martha Jane Anderson

10 - "My Shaker Home" (1959) - Lillian Phelps

 

Each of the 10 Shaker spirituals listed above is available for only $1.00 each,
sent directly to you by email attachment.

For each Shaker tune you wish to order, click the "Add to Cart" button below and in the Quantity button when ordering from PayPal.

Click the Quantity button for the number of tunes you wish to receive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shaker Books and Articles

Original Shaker Music
Sung by Shaker Singers

Early Shaker Spirituals (Rounder Records)

A CD collection of 40 Shaker spirituals sung by The United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Many of the spirituals are sung by Sister R. Mildred Barker, the foremost Shaker singer of her time. The spirituals include laboring songs, gift songs, prayer songs, a hymn and anthem and several interviews with Sister Mildred Barker. Extensive notes and texts for all the music are provided by Daniel W. Patterson.

Let Zion Move - Music of the Shakers (Rounder Records)

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 three Shaker Sisters.

The interviews were done in 1960 by William (Bill) Randle, and in 1972 and 1980 by Roger L. Hall, who has compiled and written the 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.

 

 

 

This collection was compiled by Roger Lee Hall and named after the title song, "Gentle Words," which he discovered in a Shaker manuscript music volume compiled by Alma McGill at the Shaker community in North Union, Ohio.

CD:

Mr. Hall arranged "Gentle Words" in 1976 for SATB Chorus and
there are other Shaker tunes arranged for chorus included.
In addition, there are Shaker songs sung by several Shaker singers: Eldress Bertha Lindsay, Sister Mildred Barker and Brother Ricardo Belden. They are field recordings made in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s. These are very rare recordings of the Shakers singing and speaking about their own music. There is also an excerpt from Mr. Hall's interview with composer, Aaron Copland, about his arrangements of "Simple Gifts."

To order the CD,
Gentle Words - A Shaker Music Sampler -- go here

 

This companion book is also available separately -- go here

 

 

 

This CD is the only one devoted exclusively to Shaker Sisters
-- go here

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