Liner Notes
Cat. No. 80617
Release Date: 2004-01-01
The Enfield Shaker Singers, Mary Ann Haagen, musical director
Shaker music is a unique body of American sacred folk music, created by eighteen American Shaker communities over a period of one hundred and forty years (1780-1920). This rich tradition of song continues to serve the Shaker community in the twenty-first century because it embodies their history, records the testimony of Shakers "who have gone before," articulates the religious principles on which Shakerism is founded, and reflects the faith of the contemporary community. Shaker music was created and nurtured in communities that prized isolation from worldly ways. Shaker melodies, although related to the larger tradition of Anglo-American folk songs, are not bound by their form, tonality, melodic or rhythmic structure.
The Enfield Shaker singers are a vocal ensemble of adults and children devoted to the study and performance of Shaker music. The group is open to all without audition, and is made up of both trained musicians and amateur singers. We draw heavily on the repertoire received or composed in the two societies that were the New Hampshire Bishopric－Canterbury and Enfield. Since the New Hampshire societies enriched their repertoire with songs from all the other Shaker communities, they also sing songs of the New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio and Kentucky Shakers.
The Enfield Shaker Singers are drawn to Shaker spirituals that illuminate Shaker communal values and broaden our definitions of the sacred. The songs included on this recording illustrate some of the many ways music served Shaker communities. Most Shaker song texts are theologically direct, emotionally honest, and expressive of our shared humanity.
On this recording we offer thirty-nine songs we have come to love. Some have special meaning for individuals. We associate others with a particular singer in the group, or an occasion when it was sung. Each song offers us slightly different insights into Shaker aspiration, and Shaker faith. We hope that, through this recording, others will also come to love and sing them too. －Mary Ann Haagen, from the liner notes
Shaker music is a unique body of American sacred folk music, created by eighteen American Shaker communities over a period of one hundred and forty years (1780-1920). This rich tradition of song continues to serve the Shaker community in the twenty-first century because it embodies their history, records the testimony of Shakers "who have gone before," articulates the religious principles on which Shakerism is founded, and reflects the faith of the contemporary community. Shaker music was created and nurtured in communities that prized isolation from worldly ways. Shaker melodies, although related to the larger tradition of Anglo-American folk songs, are not bound by their form, tonality, melodic or rhythmic structure.
The Enfield Shaker singers are a vocal ensemble of adults and children devoted to the study and performance of Shaker music. The group is open to all without audition, and is made up of both trained musicians and amateur singers. We draw heavily on the repertoire received or composed in the two societies that were the New Hampshire Bishopric－Canterbury and Enfield. Since the New Hampshire societies enriched their repertoire with songs from all the other Shaker communities, they also sing songs of the New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio and Kentucky Shakers.
The Enfield Shaker Singers are drawn to Shaker spirituals that illuminate Shaker communal values and broaden our definitions of the sacred. The songs included on this recording illustrate some of the many ways music served Shaker communities. Most Shaker song texts are theologically direct, emotionally honest, and expressive of our shared humanity.
On this recording we offer thirty-nine songs we have come to love. Some have special meaning for individuals. We associate others with a particular singer in the group, or an occasion when it was sung. Each song offers us slightly different insights into Shaker aspiration, and Shaker faith. We hope that, through this recording, others will also come to love and sing them too. －Mary Ann Haagen, from the liner notes
I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
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Today, today is my own time
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The Coming Day
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Rose of Sharon
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In this pleasant place I will go
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The Earth Is Renewed
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I've a spiritual garden to weed
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Lord give me of Thy living bread
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Redeeming Love
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Good Brethren will you receive my love
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Round Dance
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Compassion
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Toil On, Pray On
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As Stars and Diamonds
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Receive a Father's love
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Pearl of Great Price
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In love and peace we will increase
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Simple Gift
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With the lamb on Mt. Zion
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The Charms of My Mother
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Great I Medley: Dismiision of Great I; I'll be no companion; Go off, go off, you hateful stiff; Now old self comes next in view; Since we have been dismissing
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Love is Little
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Harmony of Angels
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I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
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Mother's Chair
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Let us grow up strength in Zion
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My Mother's way's the way for me
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Let us sow to the spirit of love
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May I see as I am seen
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Wake Up
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I love to sing and worship God
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Move on with the gift
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How pretty 'tis to see
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Good Elder, dear Brethren and Sisters, I love you
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Grateful Remembrance
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Learned of Angel
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God is Infinitely Able
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God's Blessing
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Farewell, farewell our dear gospel friends
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Prayer for the Nations
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