Article illustrates the process of developing a companion text with musical notation to the Cherokee Hymn Book, The Cherokee Singing Book. William R. Lee explores the work and motivations of the two men behind it, Cherokee missionary Samuel A. Worcester and musician Lowell Mason.
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Article illustrates the process of developing a companion text with musical notation to the Cherokee Hymn Book, The Cherokee Singing Book. William R. Lee explores the work and motivations of the two men behind it, Cherokee missionary Samuel A. Worcester and musician Lowell Mason.
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20 p. : ill.
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Abstract: As early as 1829 Reverend Samuel Worcester and others developed a text-only hymn book for the Cherokees printed in the Sequoyan syllabary, but they lacked the means of providing fundamental musical instruction. William Lee provides a fascinating account of efforts by Worcester and New England evangelical Lowell Mason to compile The Cherokee Singing Book (1846) which included musical notation.
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