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The Missouri Harmony: Or a Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems
Allen D. Carden
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Description for The Missouri Harmony: Or a Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems
Hardcover. With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. It helped teach midwesterners to read music using shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; AVGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 260 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1030.
With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note 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. It's said that even Abraham Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann ... Read more
With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note 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. It's said that even Abraham Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Missouri History Museum Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9781883982546
SKU
V9781883982546
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