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From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part
of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until
the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless
- expressed in unknown tongues or as enthusiastic vocalizations.
Only when Shaker missionaries moved west into Ohio and Kentucky did
they begin composing hymn texts, chiefly as a means of conveying
the sect's unconventional religious ideas to new converts.In
1812-13, the Shakers published their first hymnal. This venture,
titled ""Millennial Praises"", included the texts without music for
one hundred and forty hymns and elucidated the radical and feminist
theology of the Shakers, neatly distilled in verse. This scholarly
edition of the hymnal joins the texts to original Shaker tunes for
the first time. One hundred and twenty-six of the tunes preserved
in the Society's manuscript humnals have been transcribed from
Shaker musical notation into modern standard notation, thus opening
this important religious and folk repertoire to modern scholars.
Many texts are presented with a wide range of variant tunes from
Shaker communities in New England, New York, Ohio, and
Kentucky.Introductory essays by volume editors Christian Goodwillie
and Jane F. Crosthwaite place ""Millennial Praises"" in the context
of Shaker history and offer a thorough explication of the Society's
theology. They track the use of the hymnal from the point of
publication up to the present day, beginning with the use of the
hymns by both Shaker missionaries and anti-Shaker apostates and
ending with the current use of the hymns by the last remaining
Shaker family at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.The volume includes a CD of
historical recordings of six Shaker songs by Brother Ricardo
Belden, the last member of the Society at Hancock Shaker Village.
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