The Songs of Zion

The Songs of Zion
Author: Michael Bushell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Psalmody
ISBN: 9781884527043

The Cashaway Psalmody

The Cashaway Psalmody
Author: Stephen A. Marini
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252042843

Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills's level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill. Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody's significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era's development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Pslamody and its period. Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.

Psalmody

Psalmody
Author: John Black Johnston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1871
Genre: Bible
ISBN:

Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus

Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus
Author: Luke Dysinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199273201

Evagrius' often-neglected commentaries on scripture are discussed together with his better known works in order to present a more balanced picture of the monk and his model of the spiritual life as a rhythm back and forth between the poles of image-filled prayer and imageless, wordless 'pure' prayer.