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Author Goodwillie, Christian

Title Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities : Branches of One Living Tree / Carol Medlicott & Christian Goodwillie
Published [Ashland] : The Kent State University Press, [2013]

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Contents Key to Holding Institutions -- Custos Sacrorum : Richard McNemar as Curator and Printer -- A Window on the West : Unity and Harmony in Richard McNemar's Shaker Zion -- "The living Church may loudly sing" : Giving Voice to Richard McNemar's Shaker West -- Song Scores, Lyrics, and Commentaries -- Index -- Hymn and Poem Title Index -- Hymn and Poem First Line Index -- Hymn and Poem Authors Index
Summary The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. This book reconstructs a vast repository of early Shaker hymns, using them to uncover the dramatic history of Shakerism's bold expansion to the frontier. With newly discovered tunes for more than one hundred Shaker hymns, this volume illuminates a little-known dimension of American folk hymnody. Richard McNemar's blended passions of printing, theology, and hymn writing were well suited to the needs of the new western Shaker enterprise. The abundance of rich spiritual and doctrinal hymns circulated by McNemar throughout the Shaker world literally gave voice to a generation of Shakers. In the early 1830s, he established a printing press at the Shaker settlement of Watervliet on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio. There, in collaboration with other Shaker musicians and leaders, McNemar produced the first printed hymnal of the Shaker west. In this book, the authors paint a rich picture of the Shaker west during its most dynamic years. They probe the hymn texts and use them to illuminate the dramatic events of the Shaker west from its founding through the 1830s. They analyze the collection of hymns and hymn tunes in light of the development of Shaker hymnody by the 1830s and of American folk hymnody in general
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Subject McNemar, Richard, 1770-1839. Selection of hymns and poems for the use of believers.
McNemar, Richard, 1770-1839.
SUBJECT McNemar, Richard, 1770-1839 fast
Subject Shakers -- Hymns -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Shakers fast
Selection of hymns and poems for the use of believers (McNemar, Richard) fast
Form Electronic book
Author Medlicott, Carol
Goodwillie, Christian
ISBN 9781612776569
1612776566