New multi-media collection available!

 

This is the largest mutlimedia collection about music of the American Shakers
available anywhere and includes over 500 files, 100 audio examples, 10 videos.

 

The collection was compiled by Roger Lee Hall, a Shaker music historian
and singer who has researched and performed Shaker music for over 50 years.

He has presented many Shaker music programs over the years
at museums and other locations including 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 Stuides Association, Shaker Seminar, and at 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 are included in this collection.

This massive collection is published by PineTree Press
and published in commemoration of two anniversaries:

The 250th anniversary of their spiritual head, Mother Ann Lee,
and a few other Shakers first arrival in America
after a long and dangerous voyage from England
on August 6, 1774.

Also the 50th anniversary of Roger Hall introducing
composer Aaron Copland, arranger of the Shaker dance song, "Simple Gifts,"
to several Shakers from Maine who were in Shaker Heights, Ohio
on November 9, 1974. Here Aaron Copland meets Sister Mildred Barker:

© Picture by Gail M. Hall

 

One of the tunes in this multi-media collection
speaks about the 1774 event and was 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.

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.

The hymn was published two years later in a music collection,
"A Western Shaker Music Sampler."

It was reprinted in a larger collection,
Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals (1992)

 

  

Here are the folders on the DVD-ROM with 10 representative Shaker spirituals (5 songs, 4 hymns, 1 anthem) all of them edited by Roger Hall.

01 - Introduction, Images and Information
02 - A Checklist of Published Shaker Hymnals
03 - "Mother Ann's Song" (1783) - Ann Lee
04 - "The Humble Heart" (hymn) - Eunice Wyeth (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" (union 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
13 - Audio: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Workshop in Ohio (1974)
14 - Audio: Interviews with Shakers & Aaron Copland (1972-1987)
15 - Audio: Radio appearances about Shaker music (1978, 1992)
16 - Videos: Music concert (2013) and rare 1960s TV program

Music samples of original Shaker tunes:

"Simple Gifts" - click here (for listening only)

"Give Good Gifts - click here (for listening only)

 

Please Note:

If you would rather order just one of 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 titles
separately -- go here

Note: The DVD-ROM is playable on a CD/DVD drive
but not a DVD or Blu-ray movie player.

This multi-media collection is available instead on a USB if requested.

Please indicate which format you prefer.

 

 

 

For this special multi-media collection,
the cost is $20.24 including shipping cost (USA only).

Click the Quantity button ONE time.

For orders in countries outside of the USA, the cost is $40.48 includes Air Mail shipment.

Click the "Quantity" button TWO times.

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After you have sent in your payment,
please send an e-mail
where you wish the DVD-ROM (or USB)
sent to you by clicking this link --

A Shaker Music Miscellany

 

For any questions, write to PineTree Productions -- click here

 

 

Roger Lee Hall is available to speak about his research on the best-known Shaker song,
"Simple Gifts" (aka: Tis the gift to be simple), or about some other Shaker music topic.

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

 

 

 

 

This book contains information about Shaker music and has
interviews with several Shakers in New Hampshire and Maine
and with composer, Aaron Copland, plus a Shaker Song Quartet music arrangement:

 

 

 

 

Multi-media Publications

 

"Give Good Gifts"
Shaker Music in the 20th Century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music of the American Shakers - Resources and Recordings

 

 

 

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