PART TWO
Part two The TUMULTUOUS Nineteenth CENTURY
5 RELIGIOUS Music IN the EARLY Nineteenth Century
Chapter Overview
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a wave of evangelical revival movements furthered the popularity of the music of the First New England School composers, especially in rural America. Shape-notes proved a popular and long-lasting system of music notation. City folk responded to Lowell Mason’s efforts to “reform” music, and many of Mason’s hymns remain popular to this day. Stirring spirituals, including white folk hymns and black sorrow songs and praise songs, resounded at religious camp meetings.
Listening Examples
17. James Macdermid: “There’ll Be Joy, Joy, Joy” (excerpt)
18. Anonymous: “Amazing Grace”
19. Anonymous: “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (excerpt)
20. Lowell Mason: “Nearer, My God, to Thee”
Suggestions for Further Listening
Shape-Note Singing
“American Angels: Songs of Hope, Redemption, and Glory” (performed by Anonymous 4)
Spirituals (Slave Hymns or Sorrow Songs)
“Go Down, Moses”
“Deep River”
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Hymns by Lowell Mason
“My Faith Looks Up to Thee” (“Olivet”)
“Work, for the Night is Coming” (“Diligence”)
“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” (“Hamburg”)
“Watchman, Tell Us of the Night” (“Watchman”)
Suggestion for Viewing
Cold Mountain, 2003 film featuring Sacred Harp singers.
Terms to Review
shape-note notation
The Sacred Harp
spiritual
Key Figures
Henry Thacker Burleigh
Lowell Mason
Visuals
George Bellows, Billy Sunday
An arrangement of “Old Hundred” in shape-note notation
Critical Thinking
If you read music notation, why do you suppose that many people found shape-note music easier to read than the traditional method of notating music?
Why do you think the pentatonic pattern playable on the five black notes of a keyboard has inspired so many popular melodies, including “Amazing Grace,” “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” and countless others?
Why might American composers have turned to Europe for inspiration and instruction at the same time that American artists, painters, and literary figures were developing a characteristically American style of expression?
Further Topics for Essays or Discussion
1. What early nineteenth-century events may be said to illustrate some romantic characteristics of the American personality?
2. What were some of the characteristics of fuging tunes that Lowell Mason considered old-fashioned or incorrect?
3. Do you think that music as it is taught in American public schools today enhances Americans’ appreciation of concert music? Could, and should, the teaching of music to American children be improved? How?
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