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02711aam a2200373 i 4500 001 F65E40149F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 200318t20202020nyuag b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020013326 020 $a 0190842792 020 $a 9780190842796 035 $a (OCoLC)1147938565 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d LNT $d PTS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a ML3111.4 $b .M47 2020 100 1 $a Mercer-Taylor, Peter Jameson, $e author. 245 10 $a Gems of exquisite beauty : $b how hymnody carried classical music to America / $c Peter Mercer-Taylor. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 385 pages : $b illustrations, music ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds of tunes from the works of major classical composers to use as settings of psalms and hymns.[...] Gems of Exquisite Beauty is the first in-depth study of the historical rise and fall of this adaptation practice, its artistic achievements, and its place in ninetheenth-century American musical life."--Book jacket. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Hymnody's Road to Classical Music -- Antebellum Psalmody in its Cultural Context -- An Immigrant's Musical Memoir : Clifton's 1819 Original Collection and the Modest Launch of a Tradition -- Institutional Certification : Mason's 1822 Handel and Haydn Society Collection and Its Impact -- Heyday : Kingsley's 1838 Sacred Choir and the Midcentury Mania -- Psalmodic Adaptation as Musical Translation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Classical Music in Pre-Civil War American Psalmody : The Repertoire -- Appendix 2. The Repertoire by Composer. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Hymns $z United States $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Music $z United States $x German influences. 650 7 $a Hymns. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00965486 650 7 $a Music $x German influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030328 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F65E40149F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search