Shaker music; a manifestation of American folk culture.

Author
Cook, Harold E. (Harold Eugene), 1904-1968 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lewisburg [Pa.] Bucknell University Press [1973]
Description
312 pages illustrations 25 cm

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    Usually folk music is recorded by others than the folk musician himself, bu the members of the Mother Ann Lee's Shaker communities recorded their own, developing a certain amount of music theory and their own system of notation. For this first scholarly work to date on Shaker music, Dr. Cook has access to a collection of more than 400 manuscript Shaker hymnals at the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland that have been neither cataloged nor studied before. This collection is by far the largest in existence.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. 296-302.
    ISBN
    • 0838779530
    • 9780838779538
    LCCN
    71161507
    OCLC
    212910
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