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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nola Reed Knouse |
| ISBN: | 9781580463522 1580463525 |
| OCLC Number: | 434022938 |
| Notes: | "First published 2008. Reprinted in paperback and transferred to digital printing 2009."--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xxii, 346 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Eastman studies in music, v. 49. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nola Reed Knouse. |
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Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of music in the Moravian Church... Well documented with chapter endnotes and amply illustrated with music examples, facsimiles from early sources, and photographs... A veritable vade mecum for the subject... There is a genuine need for this book. --MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES (John Druesedow) Music plays a huge role in Moravian culture... Those wishing to build an understanding of this music and musical culture will appreciate the first several essays (by Knouse, C. Daniel Crews, Albert Frank, and Alice Caldwell)... A significant addition to the literature on Moravian music and culture (and, indeed, on church music more broadly.) ... Summing Up: Recommended. All audiences, but particularly undergraduates and general readers. --CHOICE This marvelous collection of essays presents a rich, provocative account of an underappreciated musical heritage. Its penetrating insights go well beyond Moravian culture. Indeed, this book should be required reading for any person, of any denomination, interested in the complex issue of music in liturgy. --Lorenzo Candelaria, University of Texas at Austin (Musicology) and co-author of American Music: A Panorama A giant step in the ongoing task of disseminating information about the origins of Moravian music and its importance on the American musical scene. The assembly of works by significant scholars is well illustrated by examples of printed music, hymns, and both original and translated texts. --J. Edwin Hendricks, Wake Forest University (History) and longtime president of Historic Winston Insightful quotations from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources...Well documented...(Nola) Reed Knouse and other contributors provide excellent discussions of the Moravian cultivation of amateur music making...Readers...may find themselves, as Goethe, Herder, (George) Washington, and (Benjamin) Franklin were, moved by the emotionally charged religious sentiment of Moravian music. --JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC (Sarah Eyerly) Read more...
