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Shaker Music Preservation Series
In Memory of a Dear Friend
who with her husband, Paul Van Kolken,
published The Shaker Messenger magazine
for many years and included
the "Shaker Song Series" in each issue
Diana Van Kolken
(1943-2013)
The series was published in each issue of
THE SHAKER MESSENGER magazine
between 1981 and 1996.The Shaker songs and hymns
were transcribed and edited for performance
by Shaker music scholar, Roger Lee Hall.
The term "Song" is meant in the broadest sense
including any vocal music and
includes both single verse songs and multiple verse hymns.
None of the longer Shaker anthems were included in this series.
Some of hymns and songs in this series (Nos. 2-3, 9, 19, 37)were written in memory of their most important spiritual leader,
Each of the titles listed below has the Shaker community,
year of composition (if known),and the Shaker member
who composed it or collected it.
These recordings are listed with Shaker Song Series titles:
BT = Blended Together: Interviews with The Shakers
Compiled by Roger Lee HallCP = Celestial Praises - A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals
Arrangements by Roger Lee Hall and Conrad Held
ESS = Early Shaker Spirituals - Sung by Sabbathday Lake Shakers
GW = Gentle Words - A Shaker Music Sampler -
includes editions and arrangements by Roger Lee Hall
GWTC = Gentle Words - The Tudor Choir
arrangements by Kevin Siegfried
JOA = Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and
The New Year - The Sampler Singers
LIL = Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals
The Sampler Singers
LZM = Let Zion Move: Music of the Shakers - Shaker singers
from Canterbury, New Hampshire and Sabbathday Lake, Maine
MOA = Music of Angels: Songs of the Shaker West - Pleasant Hill
MSH = My Shaker Home: Words & Music by Shaker Sisters
SG = Simple Gifts - Shaker Chants and Spirituals
The Boston Camerata
TGH = The Golden Harvest.
The Boston Camerata
To order any of the music listed in
the Shaker Song Series below,
sent directly to you by email attachment,
the price is $2.00 for each title.
Some of the Shaker music titles
also have an audio example
included at no extra charge.
Please indicate which number(s)
from 1 to 56 you wish to order.
Put the number of total music titles
you have ordered
in the "Quantity" section
when ordering.
Thank you.
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"Shaker Song Series"
56 tunes published in
The Shaker Messenger magazine (1981-1996)
Click on the links for more information.
No. 1 (1981): THE HUMBLE HEART -Shaker hymn from Harvard, Massachusetts - Words: Eunice Wyeth/
Tune: Thomas Hammond Jr./ Arranged by Roger Hall [GW]
No. 2 (1982): ON THE BIRTHDAY OF MOTHER ANN - Shaker hymn
from North Union, Ohio, 1850 - Words/Tune: James S. Prescott
No. 3 (1982): MOTHER'S LOVE - Shaker song
from New Lebanon, New York, 1839
No. 4 (1982): WELCOME, WELCOME PRECIOUS GOSPEL KINDRED -
Enfield, New Hampshire, 1869/ Attributed to Rosetta Cummings - Arranged by Roger Hall [CP/ GW/ MSH]
No. 5 (1982): WE WILL ALL GO HOME WITH YOU -
Canterbury, NH, 1862/ From singing of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers, 1976/ arranged by Roger Hall [CP & GW]
No. 6 (1983): THE HAPPY JOURNEY - Harvard, MA, 1808/
Attributed to Joshua Goodrich, Hancock, MA [LIL]
No. 7 (1983): THE MORNING SUN - South Union, Kentucky, 1847
No. 8 (1983): THE SHAKERS - Union Village, Ohio, ca. 1812
Words: Richard McNemar/
From the singing of Sister R. Mildred Barker
and Sister Frances Carr, 1980 [LIL]
No. 9 (1983): MOTHER -f.l.: "At Manchester in England
this blessed fire began" - Union Village, Ohio, ca. 1812
Words: Richard McNemar [LIL & SG]
This ballad hymn is about Mother Ann Lee, their spiritual leader.
No. 10 (1983): CHRISTMAS HYMN - North Union, Ohio 1869
Words/Tune: Elmina Phillips [JOA]
No. 11 (1984): RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE - Union Village, Ohio,
ca. 1810 - Words/Tune: Issachar Bates [GW and TGH]
No. 12 (1984): ODE TO CONTENTMENT - North Union, Ohio
Words: Richard Pelham, 1835/Tune: Issachar Bates, 1833 [GW and LIL]
No. 13 (1984): BLENDED TOGETHER - New Lebanon, NY, ca. 1870
Words/Tune: Joseph Holden/ From the singing of Sister Mildred Barker and Sister Frances Carr, 1974 [BT]
No. 14 (1985): HEALING BALM - Enfield, NH, 1851
No. 15 (1985): INVITATION TO ZION - Watervliet, NH, 1843
Words/Tune: David A. Buckingham
No. 16 (1985): FOLLOWERS OF THE LAMB - New Lebanon, NY,
ca. 1847 Words/Tune: Clarissa Jacobs [LIL & MSH]
No. 17 (1985): A NEW SONG - Alfred, Maine, ca. 1873
No. 18 (1985): LET ME HAVE MOTHER'S GOSPEL - Enfield, NH,
ca. 1865 Words/Tune: Abraham Perkins [ESS]
No. 19 (1986): REFLECTIONS ON MOTHER ANN'S BIRTHDAY -
Watervleit, NY, 1840 - Words/Tune: David A. Buckingham
No. 20 (1986): A PRAYER FOR THE CAPTIVE - New Lebanon, NY, 1862 Words/Tune: Cecilia DeVere [GW & MSH]
No. 21 (1986): O GIVE ME A LITTLE LOVE - Sabbathday Lake, 1883 Words/Tune: Sarah Fletcher/ In memory of Brother Theodore E. Johnson [ESS]
No. 22 (1986): LOVELY GOSPEL KINDRED -
New Lebanon, NY, 1836
Words/Tune: Issachar Bates
No. 23 (1987): ALMIGHTY SAVIOR - New Lebanon, NY, 1836
Words/Tune: Issachar Bates [GWTC]
No. 24 (1987): ON ZION'S HOLY GROUND - Harvard, MA,
ca. 1837 - From the singing of Sister Ethel Peacock, 1963 [ESS]
No. 25 (1987): SONG TO NEW LEBANON - Harvard, MA, ca. 1852
No. 26 (1987): MAY I SOFTLY WALK - New Lebanon, NY, 1869 [LZM] - arranged by Roger Hall [CP/ GW/ MSH]
No. 27 (1988): HEAVENLY MUSIC - North Union, Ohio, ca. 1853
Words/Tune: Nelson Phillips [JOA]
No. 28 (1988): LOVE, O LOVE IS SWEETLY FLOWING -
New Lebanon, NY, 1846 - Words/Tune: John Robe
No. 29 (1988): O BLESSED BEAUTIFUL LAND -
Sabbathday Lake, Maine, 1878
No. 30 (1988): JOIN TOGETHER HEART AND HAND -
North Union, Ohio, 1853
No. 31 (1989): GENTLE WORDS - Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, ca. 1834
Words/Tune: Polly M. Rupe [GW/ GWTC/ MSH]
No. 32 (1989): MORE LOVE - Canterbury, NH, ca. 1870 [LIL]
No. 33 (1989): ALL AT HOME - Canterbury, NH, ca. 1870 [LIL]
No. 34 (1989): I HUNGER AND THIRST- Alfred, Maine, 1837
From music book by Emma B. King, 1912-14 and
the singing of Sister Ruth Mildred Barker [ESS]
No. 35 (1990): O GLORY TO GOD - Union Village, Ohio 1856
No. 36 (1990): HOW BEAUTIFUL DO THE HEAVENS RING - Hancock, MA, 1849 -For 200th anniversary of Hancock Shaker Village [LIL]
No. 37 (1991): MOTHER SAYS, O RISE BE GLAD - Canterbury, NH
From the singing of Eldress Bertha Lindsay, 1972 [BT]
No. 38 (1991): GOOD BELIEVER'S LIFE - Harvard, MA, 1837
For the 200th anniversary of Harvard Shaker Village
No. 39 ( 1991): SUNSHINE OR STORM - Union Village, Ohio, 1876
Words/Tune: Oliver C. Hampton
No. 40 (1991): CELESTIAL PRAISES - Canterbury, NH, 1841
Arranged by Roger Hall for SATB Chorus, 1974
For the 200th anniversary of Canterbury Shaker Village
[CP & GW]
No. 41 (1992): LIVING SOULS LET'S BE MARCHING - Tyringham, MA - From the singing of Brother Ricardo Belden, 1957 [LIL]
No. 42 (1992): WE MUST BE MEEK - Enfield, Connecticut, date unknown - From the singing of Sister Mildred Barker, 1970
[ESS & MSH]
No. 43 (1992): HOW LOVELY ARE THE FAITHFUL SOULS - New Lebanon, NY, 1830 - From the singing of Sister Mildred Barker, 1970 [ESS]
No. 44 (1993): WE HAVE SET OUT FOR GLORY - Shirley, Massachusetts, 1856 - For the 200th anniversary of Shirley Shaker Village
No. 45 (1993): BOWING SONG - New Lebanon, NY, 1865
For the 200th anniversary of Alfred Shaker Village -
From the singing of Sister Mildred Barker and Sister Frances Carr, 1974
No. 46 (1993): GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE - Enfield, NH, ca. 1851
Words/Tune: Abraham Perkins -
For the 200th anniversary of Enfield Shaker VillageNo. 47 (1993): A DREAM - Union Village, Ohio, October 14, 1860
Words/Tune: Harvey L. Eades [GW]
No. 48 (1994): DOXOLOGY - Union Village, Ohio, 1856
Words/Tune: Oliver C. Hampton [GW]
No. 49 (1994): THE TRUE VINE - Sabbathday Lake, Maine, 1856
Words/Tune: Joseph Brackett, Jr.
who also composed the best known Shaker song, "Simple Gifts"
Edited for the 200th anniversary of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
No. 50 (1994): A WELCOME SONG- Pleasant Hill, Kentucky,
May 9, 1869 - Words/Tune: Polly M. Rupe [MOA]No. 51 (1995): THE SEASONS (1808)
Text: Richard McNemarNo. 52 (1995): TYPICAL DANCING (1809)
Text: Richard McNemar
No. 53 (1995): INVITATION TO SOULS (1846)
Music by Mathilda A. Butler, Whitewater, Ohio, 1846No. 54 (1995): CELESTIAL CHOIR (1847)
Canterbury, NHNo. 55 (1996): I WANT TO BE LIVING AND FREE (1834)
South Union, Kentucky manuscript music bookNo. 56 (1996): MY WELL BELOVED CHILDREN (1856)
North Union, Ohio, 1856
In 2026, Roger Lee Hall
celebrates the 50th anniversary
of his first music collection published in 1976
and the first recording
with his Shaker music editions and arrangements
from 1976 also with singing by several Shakers
and an excerpt from the 1980 interview
with composer, Aaron Copland,
about his arrangements of "Simple Gifts"
all of these recordings on this AMRC CD
Read more about Roger Hall's
extensive work with Shaker music -- go here
For a list of his Shaker music collections -- go here
For The Record
Also from THE SHAKER MESSENGER magazine
was a shorter series
comparing non-Shaker and Shaker tuneswhich have been recorded.
This series was also written by Roger Hall.
No. 1: "Lord of the Dance" and "Simple Gifts"
Volume 10/No. 1 (Fall, 1987)
No. 2: "Run, Shaker Life" and "Come Life, Shaker Life"
Volume 10/ Number 3 (Spring 1988)
No. 3: "The President's March" and "Rights of Conscience"
Volume 11, Number 4 (Summer 1989)
No. 4: "Animation" and "While We're Marching"
Volume 14/ Number 3 (1992)These four articles are included in this extensive collection
compiled from over many years of research:
Shaker CD Series
Recordings of music performed by Shaker
and non-Shaker musicians,
featuring original and arranged Shaker tunes:
" Celestial Praises" - A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals
25 premiere recordings of original Shaker tunes
and arrangements by Roger Lee Hall and Conrad Held.
"My Shaker Home" - Words & Music by Shaker Sisters
First recording of music
by Shaker Sisters
with original Shaker tunesand arranged tunes by Roger Lee Hall
Multi-media collections
"The Humble Heart" - A Fifty year Survey of Shaker Music
"Invitation to Zion" - A Shaker Music Guide
Largest Recorded Collection
with the Shakers singing their music
This 2-CD set
includes a 72 page illustrated booklet
by Roger Hall
The spiritual music of the Shakers. as might be expected, is notable for its simplicity and straightforward nature...anyone with an interest in American religious music will find the material both interesting and moving. Highly recommended.
--Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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