The Happy Journey: Early American Vocal Music, Volume II
A delightful and moving compendium of early American song including Shaker songs, New England anthems, folk-hymns and fuguing-tunes by rough-hewn Yankee tunesmiths Billings, Ingalls, Jenks and Wood.
Also featured are Southern spirituals, both black and white, including the first published version of Amazing Grace (called “New Britain”) and the first piece of published music written by an American woman, “The Promised Land” by Miss M. Durham.
(Originally released on Nonesuch Records in 1984.)
Track List (click to download samples):
1. The Happy Journey – Anonymous
2. Now, My Dear, Companions / Drink Ye of Mother’s Wine – Augustus R Blasé
3. Funeral Hymn – Anonymous
4. Who Will Bow and Bend Like a Willow – Anonymous
5. From the Moon / Come Life, Shaker Life – Anonymous
6. Honor to the Hills – Jeremiah Ingalls
7. Brevity – Abraham Wood
8. Sorrow’s Tear – Stephen Jenks
9. Decay – Jenks
10. Columbia – Ingalls
11. Lamentation – Ingalls
12. Evening Hymn – Elisha West
13. Complainer – Ingalls
14. Euroclydon, An Anthem (Psalm 107, for Mariners) – William Billings
15. Wake Up
16. Musgrove – E. R. White
17. The Bower of Prayer – E. J. King
18. Weeping Mary / To The Land – John G. McCurry
19. The Angels Done Bowed Down – Anonymous
20. Calvary – Anonymous
21. Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass – Anonymous
22. Wondrous Love – Anonymous
23. New Britain – Anonymous / The Promised Land – Miss M. Durham
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