populist sacred music of the 19th cen
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Populist Sacred Musicof the Nineteenth Century
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Sacred Music
• Evangelical revival movement• Continued use of music composed by the First
New England School• Shape-note vs. Traditional European Notation• Uneducated vs. educated
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Shape-Note Singing
• What is it? • Fa: 1st, 4th (Triangle)• Sol: 2nd, 5th (Oval)• La: 3rd, 6th ( Square)• Mi: 7th (Diamond) • Standard Solfege• European origins (Italy, early Renaissance)• Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti (Si)
• Easy to learn (?)• http://fasola.org/
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Written Shape-Note Notation
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Musical Reformists
• Educated vs. uneducated• European vs. American
• Shape-note and First New England School considered to be inferior• Billings doing his own thing = bad?• Inferiority complex?
• European ideals• German masters: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann
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Populist Hymns
• Educated composers using European ideals• Thomas Hastings (1784-1872)• Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
• William Bradbury (1816-1868)• Tune: Woodworth
• Lowell Mason
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Lowell Mason
• 1792-1872• Leader of the musical reform
movement• European ideals, but realistic • Music Education in public
schools• Thanks for the job!• Boston, 1838
• Banker turned musician• Publishing ($$$)
• Ex: Nearer, My God, to Thee• Hymns Strophic • Homophonic (Chordal)• Syllabic vs. melismatic
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Revival Movements
• Second (Great) Awakening• What was it?• c. 1790 – 1840; enormous
increase around 1820• Methodists, Baptists• First Great Awakening
(1730s and 40s)• Third Great Awakening
(1850s to 1900)• Uh…How many times can
we be greatly awoken?
• Hybrid: religious, social, recreational, multicultural, cross-generational
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Folk Hymns
• Aka: White Spirituals• “The Sacred Harp” (1844)• Shape-note tradition• Southern US, Appalachia • Rural areas; Camp
meetings
• Repetitive • No literacy, no problem!
• Ex: Amazing Grace• Ex: I’m Going Home
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The Sacred Harp (1844)
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Black Spirituals
• Aka Spirituals, Negro Spirituals • (Yes, they’re still published under this category.)
• Traced back to work songs and field hollers• Often call and response• Hidden messages disguised in Bible stories and imagery• Hebrews in Egypt • “Promised Land” “Let My People Go”
• Fisk Jubilee Singers (1871)• Former slaves• University Treasurer/Music Director: George L. White• Performances across country; fascination; novelty
• Ex Swing Low Sweet Chariot (1909)• Youtube: Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Fisk Jubilee Singers c. 1872