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| #4997409 in Books | Univ. of Massachusetts Press | 2009-04-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.50 x7.25 x1.00l,1.68 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Praises for Millennial Praises|By David D. Newell|The first printed Shaker hymnal is an enchanting text and a window into American Shakerism in its earliest years. Published with words only in 1813, the sometimes-haunting, often-charming tunes are now married with the text, and the result is wonderful. Goodwillie has given us the last word on this first 'Shaker-printed' titl||"Goodwillie and Crosthwaite are adding enormously to the body of vernacular tunes known to have had currency in American religious circles in these early years. But their work significantly advances Shaker studies too, for they also offer a serious exposition
From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless―expressed in unknown tongues or as enthusiastic vocalizations. Only when Shaker missionaries moved west into Ohio and Kentucky did they begin composing hymn texts, chiefly as a means of conveying the sect's ...
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