Summary
A foreword by Laurence Libin (research curator, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, emeritus), and a preface by the general editor, Nola Reed Knouse (director of the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston-Salem, NC since 1994), form the prologue to the ten chapters of the text: The Moravians and Their Music, by Knouse; Moravian Worship: [...] it was considered unseemly to strive for virtuosity, since that would have led to an inappropriate emphasis on self.
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The Music of the Moravian Church in America
CHURCH MUSIC
The Music of the Moravian Church in America. Edited by Nola Reed Knouse. (Eastman Studies in Music, v. 49.) Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. [xxii, 346 p. ISBN: 9781580462600. $50.00.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index.This volume, the latest in the Eastman Studies in Music series, provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of music in the Moravian Church (known also as the Unitas Fratrum, or simply "Unity") in ...See the full content of this document
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