Title
The Missouri Harmony: Or a Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems (Volume 1),New
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With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shapenote tune books. The 185 songs in the collection were favorites used in Protestant churches and singing schools, and many were already deeply rooted in American culture by the time of its first publication. The story of the book is the story of a burgeoning nation, with its origins in a St. Louis school (where it was introduced by singing master Allen Carden) and its spread along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Its said that even Abraham Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge sang from The Missouri Harmony at her fathers tavern in Illinois.Compilations such as The Missouri Harmony not only helped teach midwesterners to read music but also carried a uniquely American heritage of shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenthcentury New England. Furthermore, this heritage would be, according to composer Virgil Thomson, the musical basis of almost everything we make, of Negro spirituals, of cowboy songs, of popular ballads, of blues, of hymns, of doggerel ditties, and all our operas and symphonies. Yet, despite its significance, the tune book was until now unavailable to contemporary choral and church music groups, including the thriving community of shapenote folksingers.This updated and expanded version of Allen D. Cardens 1820 volume now contains more than 300 pages of original and traditional music compositions collected by the St. Louis Shape Note Singers. An introductory text explains and illuminates the shapenote tradition and the history of the book. With this compilation, published nearly two hundred years after its inception, the heritage of a very different, yet ever influential, America thrives, and its songs, rich with our countrys history, live on.
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