Title:
American angels songs of hope, redemption, & glory
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Publication Information:
Los Angeles, CA : Harmonia Mundi USA, c&p2003.
Physical Description:
1 sound disc (60 min., 34 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (62 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.)
General Note:
Compact disc.
Program notes in English, French and German, and texts in original languages with English, French and German translations (62 p.) included.
Contents:
Holy manna (Brethren, we have met to worship) Abbeville (Come, Holy Spirit, come) Wondrous love (What wondrous love is this!) Sweet hour of prayer Jewett (Amazing grace, how sweet the sound) Dunlap's Creek (My God, my portion and my love) New Britain (Amazing grace, how sweet the sound) The morning trumpet (O when shall I see Jesus) Resignation (My shepherd will supply my need) Poland (God of my life, look gently down) Wayfaring stranger (I am a poor, wayfaring stranger) Sweet by and by (There's a land that is fairer than day) Blooming vale (O, were I like a feathered dove) Indumea (I) (And am I born to die) ; Idumea (II) (My God, my life, my love) Sweet prospect (On Jordan's stormy banks I stand) Shall we gather at the river Amanda (Death, like an overflowing stream) Invitation (Hark! I hear the harps eternal) Parting hand (My Christian friends, in bonds of love) Angel band (My latest sun is sinking fast)
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Summary:
A vivid portrait of the roots of Anglo-American sacred music, including 18th-century psalmody from New England, 19th-century shape-note songs from the rural South, and some of the longest-lived and best-loved gospel songs. (Cf. container)
