Early American Choral Music Paul Hillier and His Majesties Clerkes These recordings are totally a capella. It is the straight, clear singing of the "shape-note" style of early America. |
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Early American Choral Music, Vol. 1
Songs: O Praise the Lord of Heaven/Is Any Afflicted?/EMMAUS/AFRICA/Funeral Anthem: Samuel the Priest/SHILOH/JORDAN/I am the Rose of Sharon/EUROCLYDON/Hear my Pray’r/RUTLAND/DAVID’s LAMENTATION/As the Hart Panteth/CREATION/BROOKFIELD/Easter Anthem: The Lord is Ris’n Indeed
This recording is the music of William Billings, a New England Psalmodist. He was a Boston tanner and a self-taught composer. |
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Early American Choral Music, Vol. 2
Songs: O ‘Twas a Joyful Sound/The Humble Suit of a Sinner/The Lamentation of a Sinner/The Humble Complaint of a Sinner/Brevity/O God, to Rescue Me/How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me, Lord?/The Beauty of Isr’el is Slain/Great God, How Frail a Thing is Man/Let Tyrants Shake Their Iron Rod/Death May Dissolve My Body Now/Who is This That Cometh From Edom?/How Beauteous Are Their Feet/Death Like an Overflowing Stream/Early My God, Without Delay/Broad is the Road that Leads to Death/Ode on Music/All Saints/’Tis by Thy Strength the Mountains Stand/From All that Dwell Below the Skies/Lord, What a Thoughtless Wretch Was I/My Days are as the Grass/Evening Hymn Early America. Anglo-American Psalmody from 1550-1800. |
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