Author: Thomas Hastings
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Category : Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Languages : en
Pages : 984

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Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Edwin Francis Hatfield
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Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Thomas Hastings
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895798654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Thomas Hastings (1784–1872) was one of the foremost advocates of “reform psalmody,” which sought to replace the “crudities” of the Billings-Read-Holden school of American sacred music with a more graceful melodic style and the common practice harmonic idiom characteristic of European music. The present edition makes available for modern study and performance a selection of Hastings’s choral music, chosen from a single genre—the anthem—to facilitate comparative study, both within his corpus and with similar pieces by others. Hastings’s anthems are typically for four-part mixed choir, with the melody given to the treble (unlike early American psalmody). Many of the works include a keyboard part, either fully notated or in the form of a figured bass.

Author: Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190842806
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds of tunes from the works of major classical composers to use as settings of psalms and hymns. The few that remain popular today millions have sung "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" to Beethoven and "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" to Mendelssohn are vestiges of one of the most distinctive trends in antebellum music-making. Gems of Exquisite Beauty is the first in-depth study of the historical rise and fall of this adaptation practice, its artistic achievements, and its place in nineteenth-century American musical life. It traces the contributions of pioneering figures like Arthur Clifton and the impact of bestsellers like the Handel and Haydn Society Collection, which helped turn Lowell Mason into America's most influential musician. By telling the tales of these hymns and those who brought them into the world, author Peter Mercer-Taylor reveals a central part of the history of how the American public first came to meet and creatively engage with Europe's rich musical practices.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382508338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: New York State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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