Early American Folk Hymns

[@fazbell]

Outstanding music. So many songs I have never heard.

[@mtnhorn2619]

Thank you VERY much for a well edited and thoughtful production. I am a retired music educator, and if I were still teaching, I would most certainly included this presentation within my music history classes.

[@SHalto142]

As a Sacred Harp shapenote singer I appreciate your exposition.

[@joshuaperkins9916]

I really enjoyed this history, it’s really nice and fascinates me. Definitely gives some good insight into American music history. If I may I would like to add Gailic Psalms singing. A improvised, microtonal, call and response style of singing that came to the US from Scotland. It’s also said that this tradition existed as an old English tradition as well. To me it sounds like a very blue note major pentatonic. Thank you for the video.

[@maryvalentine9090]

My grandfather, a Norwegian immigrant, was Circuit rider Baptist preacher in the late 19th and early 20th century.

[@JosMorn1]

It's not actually true that West Gallery music was a capella... It in fact encompassed the town musicians, someone bringing to the gallery what they felt would contribute, and in time began to become a bit... raucous. When small parish churches could afford organs, the "West Gallery Gang" was disposed of. There are surviving drawings, a few paintings, and numerous accounts of this that are being utilized to recreate this sound today.

[@rudymetz3463]

Southern folk hymns arranged by CHARLES ELKINS !

[@homermullins9665]

Songs of praise bbc