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John P. Zdechlik used "Simple Gifts" in "Chorale ′and Shaker Dance", a 1972 composition for concert band. In 2004, Robert Steadman arranged the tune for orchestra featuring an off-stage trumpet and a thumping, dance-music influenced finale. Frank Ticheli composed a variation of "Simple Gifts", presented in Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs. [15]
Rick Rubin produced "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" with the band between April 2007 and February 2008. [2] In the liner notes of the deluxe edition of The Red Album, Cuomo stated that the song did not originally have the subtitle "Variations on a Shaker Hymn", but when guitarist Brian Bell's mother came into the studio to see them, she mentioned that the melody from the song sounded ...
In 1971, he began studying Shaker music and has become an authority on the subject, especially the Shaker song, "Simple Gifts". [3] He compiled and edited numerous Shaker songs and hymns for a series in a national magazine on Shaker culture and has edited and arranged over one hundred Shaker spirituals and published many of them in music ...
At the River (hymn tune) Ching-A-Ring Chaw (minstrel song) Arrangement of Preamble for a Solemn Occasion for organ (1953) Dirge in the Woods for voice and piano (1954) The Tender Land; opera (1954) Canticle of Freedom for chorus and orchestra (1955) Variations on a Shaker Melody for concert band (1956) Fantasy for piano (1955–57)
Williams based the piece on the familiar 19th century Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" by Joseph Brackett. [8] The source piece is famous for its appearance in Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring. [2] Williams chose the selection from Copland, one of Obama's favorite classical composers. [9] The piece is slightly under 4.5 minutes.
Variations on a Hymn Tune Op.20 (1962) Postlude (1962) Processional (1964) Chorale (Easter 1966) Invocations Op.35 (1967) Toccata Giocosa Op.36 No.2 (1967) Dedicated to Sir David Willcocks on the occasion of his Inauguration of the new organ at The Royal College of Organists, 7 October 1967; Jubilate Op.67, No.2 (1974) Dedicated to Michael Smythe
6 Variations in C on an Original Theme, J. 7 (1800) 3 6 petites pièces faciles, J. 9-14 (1801) 4 12 allemandes, J. 15-26 (1801) 5 8 Variations on a theme from Vogler's Castor and Pollux, J. 40 (1801) 6 6 Variations in C on a theme from Vogler's Samori, J. 43 (1804) 7 7 Variations on "Vien quà, Dorina bella," J. 53 (1807) 8
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Shaker members; ... (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) L. Lord of the Dance (hymn) O. Old American Songs