Your Shaker Collection

Subject: RE: Your Shaker Collection
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 09:53 PM

A good Dover reprint:
"The Gift to be Simple," Edward Deming Andrews, $4.75. Eighty songs in notation.

A little information in threads 5527, 21813, 7307.

The Shaker Journal Shaker
A good introduction, and defines the difference between Shaker hymns and songs. Also a brief list of sources, discs, etc. (I would copy before it is taken off- looks like most of the site gone already.

Some anthems by Hampton here: Golden Plates

An excellent cd: "Simple Gifts," the Boston Camerata, Erato 4509-98491-2. List and notes here: Simple Gifts cd

Just a few. There is an online site with a few songs and good discussion that I will have to look up.

Subject: RE: Your Shaker Collection
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 09:51 PM

Rapaire, I had always heard that the shakers adopted orphans regularly; do you have indication that some of them did have their own "blood children"? Not meaning to argue about anything, just wondering if my own take on their beliefs and customs has been inaccurate.

Subject: RE: Your Shaker Collection
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 09:37 PM

Oh, fer gooness sakes!

I have several books on or by the Shakers, including one which is a guide to conduct for Shaker children (yes, there were some). There's a wonderful place in Kentucky, Heaven(?) Hill, which is an old Shaker village and I can't recommend a trip there highly enough. My wife has some books which deal with Shaker quilts, but I can't find them right now and she's off at a...quilt meeting. I have some books on Shaker woodworking and the Shaker beliefs, too.

Subject: Your Shaker Collection
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 09:18 PM

OK, it had to happen eventually-- I've just been bit by the Shaker bug.

What recorded Shaker material do you have? (Links to purchase?)

What printed Shaker songbooks/hymnals/sheet music do you have? (Links to purchase?)

What Shaker songs do you perform? Use in worship? Melody/unison or in harmony parts?

Links to Shaker material here at Mudcat?

Links to Shaker info/song history online?

Links to online sound files/song clips?

Come on, spill it! I want it ALL.

~Susan