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The Music of the Moravian Church in America.

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The Music of the Moravian Church in America. Edited by Nola Reed Knouse. (Eastman Studies in Music, v. 49.) Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. [xxii, 346 p. ISBN: 9781580462600. $50.00.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index.

This volume, the latest in the Eastman Studies in Music series, provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of music in the Moravian Church (known also as the Unitas Fratrum, or simply "Unity") in the United States. A foreword by Laurence Libin (research curator, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, emeritus), and a preface by the general editor, Nola Reed Knouse (director of the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston-Salem, NC since 1994), form the prologue to the ten chapters of the text: "The Moravians and Their Music," by Knouse; "Moravian Worship: The Why of Moravian Music," by C. Daniel Crews; "Hymnody of the Moravian Church," by Albert H. Frank and Knouse; "Moravian Sacred Vocal Music," by Alice M. Caldwell; "The Organ in Moravian Church Music," by Lou Carol Fix; "The Role and Development of Brass Music in the Moravian Church," by Paul Peuker; "The Collegia Musica: Music of the Community," by Knouse; "Music in the Moravian Boarding Schools through the Early Nineteenth Century," by Pauline M. Fox; "The Piano among the Moravians in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Music, Instruction, and Construction," by Jewel A. Smith; and "Moravian Music:...