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" The music of the Moravian Church in America / "
edited by Nola Reed Knouse.
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BL
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853642
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The music of the Moravian Church in America /\ edited by Nola Reed Knouse.
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| Publication Statement
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Rochester :: University of Rochester Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Eastman studies in music,; [v. 49]
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xxii, 346 pages :: illustrations, music ;; 24 cm.
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158046260X
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: 9781580462600
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-329) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Church music-- Moravian Church.
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Moravians-- United States.
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Brüdergemeine
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Kirchenmusik
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Moravians.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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781.71/4600973
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ML3172.M87 2008
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783.02646
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9,2ssgn
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Knouse, Nola Reed.
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