Daniel Patterson - The Shaker Spiritual

Dover Publications
2 edition September 2000, 592 pages

This volume presents 366 songs from the Shaker repertory.
In addition, it features quotes from interviews and unpublished diaries, numerous photographs of Shaker singers and villages, reconstructions and diagrams of nearly 20 Shaker dances and marches, a checklist of 800 Shaker song manuscripts, and a survey of British antecedents of the American folk spiritual

Contents:
Early Forms of British and American Religious Folk Songs
The Institutional Background of Shaker Song
The Relation of the Shaker Spiritual to Traditional Song
A Note on Shaker Notation and My Tune Transcriptions

Shaker Spirituals:

• Songs of the Gospel Parents
• Mother Ann Lee 
• Father William Lee
• father James Whittaker
• Solemn Songs
• Early Laboring Songs
• The Back Manner
• The Holy Order 
• The Skipping Manner
• The Turning Shuffle
• The Regular Step
• The Drumming Manner
• The Walking Manner
• Ballads
• Hymns
• Extra Songs
• Occasional Songs
• Anthems
• Laboring Songs of the Middle Period
• The Quick Dance
• The Round Dance
• The Square Step
• The Hollow Square
• The Circular March
• The Square March
• The Changeable March
• The Coumpound March 
• Gift Songs from Mothers Work
• The Square March
• Laboring Songs from Mothers Work
• The Heavenly March
• The Square Ceck
• The Antediluvian Square Shuttle
• Later Laboring Songs
• The Quick March
• The Slow March

Later Hymns and Extra Songs
Epilogue
Checklist of Shaker Song Manuscripts
Checklist of Additional Manuscripts Cited
Index of Persons and Subjects