The Makers of the Sacred Harp

The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Title The Makers of the Sacred Harp PDF eBook
Author David Warren Steel
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 354
Release 2010
Genre Music
ISBN 0252077601

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This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition. David Waren Stel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.

The Harp and the Constitution

The Harp and the Constitution
Title The Harp and the Constitution PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 270
Release 2015-11-16
Genre History
ISBN 9004306382

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‘Celtic’ and ‘Gothic’: both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. ‘Celtic’ is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; ‘Gothic’ with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries – becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems. Contributed by experts in literature, archaeology, history, and Celtic studies, the essays range from broad surveys to specific case-studies, and together demonstrate the complicated interplay that has always existed between ‘Celticism’ and ‘Gothicism’. Contributors are: John Collis, Robert DeMaria, Jr., Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford, Nick Groom, Amy Hale, Ronald Hutton, Joep Leerssen, Dafydd Moore, Joanne Parker, Juan Miguel Zarandona.

The Sacred Harp

The Sacred Harp
Title The Sacred Harp PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1968
Genre
ISBN

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Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design

Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design
Title Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design PDF eBook
Author Paul R. DeHart
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Pages 311
Release 2007
Genre Law
ISBN 0826266088

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The U.S. Constitution provides a framework for our laws, but what does it have to say about morality? Paul DeHart ferrets out that document's implicit moral assumptions as he revisits the notion that constitutions are more than merely practical institutional arrangements. In Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design, he seeks to reveal, elaborate, and then evaluate the Constitution's normative framework to determine whether it is philosophically sound-and whether it makes moral assumptions that correspond to reality. Rejecting the standard approach of the intellectual historian, DeHart for the first time in constitutional theory applies the method of inference to the best explanation to ascertaining our Constitution's moral meaning. He distinguishes the Constitution's intention from the subjective intentions of the framers, teasing out presuppositions that the document makes about the nature of sovereignty, the common good, natural law, and natural rights. He then argues that the Constitution constrains popular sovereignty in a way that entails a real common good, transcendent of human willing and promotive of human well-being, but he points out that while the Constitution presupposes a real common good, it also implies a natural law that prescribes the common good. In critiquing previous attempts at describing and evaluating the Constitution's normative framework, DeHart demonstrates that the Constitution's moral framework corresponds largely to classical moral theory. He challenges the logical coherency of modern moral philosophy, normative positivism, and other theories that the Constitution has been argued to embody and offers a groundbreaking methodology that can be applied to uncovering the normative framework of other constitutions as well. This cogently argued study shows that the Constitution presupposes a natural law to which human law must conform, and it takes a major step in resolving current debates over the Constitution's normative framework while remaining detached from the social issues that divide today's political arena. Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design is an original approach to the Constitution that marks a significant contribution to understanding the moral underpinnings of our form of government.

The Sacred Harp

The Sacred Harp
Title The Sacred Harp PDF eBook
Author Hugh McGraw
Publisher
Pages 606
Release 1991
Genre Music
ISBN

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A standard collection of traditional shape-note hymns.

The New Constitution ...

The New Constitution ...
Title The New Constitution ... PDF eBook
Author Samuel Medary
Publisher
Pages 422
Release 1849
Genre Constitutional history
ISBN

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Constitution and Canons for the Government the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Constitution and Canons for the Government the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Title Constitution and Canons for the Government the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America PDF eBook
Author Episcopal Church
Publisher
Pages 1014
Release 1890
Genre
ISBN

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