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The music of the Moravian Church in America /

158046260X

9781580462600

The music of the Moravian Church in America /

[Book]

edited by Nola Reed Knouse.

Rochester :

University of Rochester Press,

2008.

xxii, 346 pages :

illustrations, music ;

24 cm.

Eastman studies in music,

[v. 49]

1071-9989 ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-329) and index.

The Moravians and their music / Nola Reed Knouse -- Moravian worship : the why of Moravian music / C. Daniel Crews -- Hymnody of the Moravian Church / Albert H. Frank and Nola Reed Knouse -- Moravian sacred vocal music / Alice M. Caldwell -- The organ in Moravian church music / Lou Carol Fix -- The role and development of brass music in the Moravian Church / Paul Peucker -- The Collegia Musica : music of the community / Nola Reed Knouse -- Music in Moravian boarding schools through the early nineteenth century / Pauline M. Fox -- The piano among the Moravians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : music, instruction, and construction / Jewel A. Smith -- Moravian music : questions of identity and purpose / Nola Reed Knouse.

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The Moravians, or Bohemian Brethren, early Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the eighteenth century, brought a musical repertoire that included hymns, sacred vocal works accompanied by chamber orchestra, and instrumental music by the best-known European composers of the day. Moravian composers -- mostly pastors and teachers trained in the styles and genres of the Haydn-Mozart era -- crafted thousands of compositions for worship, and copied and collected thousands of instrumental works for recreation and instruction. The book's chapters examine sacred and secular works, both for instruments -- including piano solo -- and for voices. The Music of the Moravian Church demonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America's most distinctive ethno-cultural populations, and presents many distinctive pieces that performers and audiences continue to find rewarding. - Publisher.

Boydell & Brewer Inc, Attn Otto Bruno 668 Mount Hope Ave, Rochester, NY, USA, 14620, (585)2735777

Church music-- Moravian Church.

Moravians-- United States.

Brüdergemeine

Kirchenmusik

Moravians.

United States.

USA.

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