The Cashaway psalmody : transatlantic religion and music in colonial Carolina /

"The Cashaway Psalmody, created by Durham Hills in the late 18th century, is one of the oldest surviving sacred music manuscripts and the only professional tunebook preserved from the entire colonial South. Re-discovered in pristine condition by Marini almost a decade ago, this is an important...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Marini, Stephen A., 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020
Series:Music in American life.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: The Gift
  • Part I. Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 1 All Saints
  • 2 "A Schoolmaster in Sandgate"
  • 3 Religious Newcastle
  • 4 Trial and Transportation
  • Part II. The Cheraws
  • 5 Cheraw Hill
  • 6 Itinerant Anglicans and Literary Evangelicals
  • 7 The Welsh Tract Baptists
  • 8 Ministers and Missions
  • 9 Saint David's
  • 10 To the Cashaway Neck Singing School
  • Part III. The Cashaway Psalmody
  • 11 A Country Psalmody Tunebook
  • 12 Musical Theology, Theory, and Practice
  • 13 Common Tunes
  • 14 Particular Psalms
  • 15 Occasional Hymns I: Festival Hymns
  • 16 Occasional Hymns II: A Saint's Life
  • Part IV. After Cashaway
  • 17 Beginnings and Endings
  • Epilogue Retrospect and Prospect
  • Appendix A The Durham Family Genealogy
  • Appendix B The Hills Family Genealogy
  • Appendix C The Religious, Cultural, and Familial Networks of The Cashaway Psalmody
  • Appendix D Census of Tunes and Texts in The Cashaway Psalmody
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Tunes and First Lines
  • Back Cover