00:10

Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Word of Mouth Chorus

RIVERS OF DELIGHT - AMERICAN FOLK HYMNS FROM THE SACRED HARP TRADITION   -  Nonesuch 71360

 

01:50*

Ocean

Supply Belcher

Norumbega Harmony directed by Stephen Marini

SING AND JOYFUL BE

   - Norumbega Harmony  0001

 

02:43

Psalm 100 from the Ainsworth Psalter

Louis Bourgeois

Gregg Smith Singers

AMERICA SINGS: Vol.1 THE FOUNDING YEARS (1620-1800)   - Vox Box 5080

 

03:07

Psalm 100 from the Bay Psalm Book

Old 100th composed by Louis Bourgeois

Gregg Smith Singers

AMERICA SINGS: Vol.1 THE FOUNDING YEARS (1620-1800)   - Vox Box 5080

 

04:30*

Psalm 23 from the Bay Psalm Book

Low Dutch Tune

Chancel Choir of Plymouth Church Shaker Heights, Ohio directed by John D. Herr

 

HARP OF JOY

   - Musical Heritage Society LP 4070

05:15*

Instrumental:  Melody

Benjamin Franklin White

 

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

06:00*

Chester

William Billings

His Majestie's Clerkes directed by Paul Hillier

GOOSTLEY PSALMES - ANGLO-AMERICAN PSALMODY FROM 1550 to 1800

   - Harmonia Mundi 907128

 

06:50*

Instrumental:  Oxford

John Massengale

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

08:48*

Morning Trumpet

M.L. Swan

The New Harp Singers of East Tennessee

MEETING IN THE AIR - SACRED MUSIC OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS

   -  John C. Campbell Folk School 1995

 

10:12

Northfield

Jeremiah Ingalls

Word of Mouth Chorus

RIVERS OF DELIGHT   -  Nonesuch 71360

 

11:58

Hymn and Fuguing Tune for String Orchestra

Henry Cowell

Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

PERSIAN SET - HENRY COWELL

   - Koch International Classics 7220

 

19:11*

Instrumental:  Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

19:45

Zion's Walls

John Gordon McCurry

Southern Traditional Singers led by Hugh McGraw

THE SOCIAL HARP - EARLY AMERICAN SHAPE-NOTE SONGS

   - Rounder 0094

21:25

Old American Songs:  Zion's Walls

McCurry/arr.Copland/arr. Alan Marks

 

Alan Marks, piano

COPLAND  (Rodeo, Four Piano Blues, Piano Variations, Old American Songs)

    -  Nimbus 5267

24:50*

Instrumental: Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Bill Evans, banjo

Suzanne Thomas, vocals

BILL EVANS - NATIVE AND FINE

   - ROUNDER 0295

 

26:41*

Instrumental: Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Martin Simpson

A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE

   -  Gourd Music 117

 

27:35*

Instrumental:  Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

30:20*

Instrumental:  Wondrous Love

Anonymous

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

30:41

Wondrous Love

Anonymous

The New Harp Singers of East Tennessee

MEETING IN THE AIR - SACRED MUSIC OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS

   -  John C. Campbell Folk School 1995

 

31:46*

Welcome Address/Jesus Rose

Bishop J.D. Walker

Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers

THE COLORED SACRED HARP

   - New World 80433

 

33:50

Chester

William Billings

His Majestie's Clerkes directed by Paul Hillier

GOOSTLEY PSALMES

   - Harmonia Mundi 907128

 

36:02

New England Triptich :  III. Chester

William Schuman

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

 

WILLIAM SCHUMAN  (Sym. #10)

   - RCA 61282

 

40:29

 

Instrumental: various hymntunes

various

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

55:15*

"I am the Rose of Sharon..."

William Billings

His Majestie's Clerkes directed by Paul Hillier

GOOSTLEY PSALMES

   - Harmonia Mundi 907128

 

56:23*

Instrumental: Rose of Sharon

William Billings

Barry & Shelley Phillips et al

WONDROUS LOVE   -  Gourd Music 118

 

"Sacred Harp," by Delia Sherman, will be appearing (in longer form) in the  anthology THE HORNS OF ELFLAND, edited by S&S host Ellen Kushner et al, to be published by Roc/Viking/Penguin in April, 1997.  (The story was adapted for radio by Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner & Jane Pipik.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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