#shaker hymn

[redowlkitchen]

Simple Gifts

[beer-and-loathingg]

Press fast forward, press rewind, either way, I just don't wanna be here right now. First one in, and last one out, I can't stop thinking about where we're gonna be years from now... from the movie Handsome Devil

[ettawritesnstudies]

Lord of The Dance

Sydney Carter · Song · 2016

The Priests are honestly a spectacular group with incredible voices and I love listening to all of their music (I remember specifically my mom would play their Ave Maria track to get me to sleep as a little kid with insomnia). This song (I think) was originally a Shaker hymn and I think it’s so cool that so many denominations including this Catholic group have picked it up. There’s a lot of disparities in theology and doctrine between our sects of Christianity but we all worship the same Lord and can agree when a song is a Good Vibe and I think that’s Neat

[ta-songoftheday]

Song Of The Day for May 29th:

Appalachian Spring: Doppio movimento (Simple Gifts) - Aaron Copland Performed by London Symphony Orchestra

https://youtu.be/TU9G1C9EHmU

There is really no way a single piece should posses this much heart to it, but this certainly does. Just coming off of the high of performing mere excerpts of the Appalachian Spring Suite this track that I have heard variations of many times before will now be a forever ingrained piece of genuine beauty that anybody of any musical stripe deserves to not merely listen to, but experience.

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[eunych-born-eunych]

Simple Gifts, a Shaker hymn "becoming okay with doing weird shit in public where I might be witnessed was definitely a level-up, but I think learning to resist the urge to conceal, apologize, or otherwise act embarrassed of being caught doing weird shit comprises an independent level-up of its own," I think this evening, as I issue a neutral, minimal greeting to the strangers on this sidewalk who can without a doubt hear the Shaker hymn my phone is emitting,

[daeien]

Song of the Week

Simple Gifts

"You may recognize it from Appalachian Spring. Where it is known as the Shaker Melody, Shaker Song, and the Shaker Hymn, the music Copland based his ending variations on was actually called "Simple Gifts". 

This same Shaker tune was used by Sydney Carter in a widely recognized hymn entitled "Lord of the Dance".(cf. Lord of the Dance (hymn)). Copland published independent arrangements of this section for band (1958) and orchestra (1967) titled Variations on a Shaker Melody.”

There is a Wiki page available

[karadin]

Shaker Hymn

Shaker religion valued women and men equally in religious leadership. The church was hierarchical, and at each level women and men shared authority. This was reflective of the Shaker belief that God was both female and male. They believed men and women were equal in the sight of God, and should be treated equally on earth, too. 

Shakers worshipped in meetinghouses painted white and unadorned; pulpits and decorations were eschewed as worldly things. In meeting, they marched, sang, danced, and sometimes turned, twitched, jerked, or shouted. The earliest Shaker worship services were unstructured, loud, chaotic and emotional. However, Shakers later developed precisely choreographed dances and orderly marches accompanied by symbolic gestures. Many outsiders disapproved of Shakers' mode of worship without understanding the symbolism of their movements or the content of their songs.

The communality of the Believers was an economic success, and their cleanliness, honesty and frugality received the highest praise. All Shaker villages ran farms, using the latest scientific methods in agriculture. They raised most of their own food, so farming, and preserving the produce required to feed them through the winter, had to be priorities. Their livestock was fat and healthy, and their barns were commended for convenience and efficiency.

When not doing farm work, Shaker brethren pursued a variety of trades and hand crafts, Shakers ran a variety of businesses to support their communities. Many Shaker villages had their own tanneries, sold baskets, brushes, bonnets, brooms, fancy goods, and homespun fabric that was known for high quality, but were more famous for their medicinal herbs, garden seeds, apple-sauce, and knitted garments The Shaker goal in their temporal labor was perfection. 

"Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow."

"Put your hands to work, and your heart to God."

Shaker craftsmen were known for a style of Shaker furniture that was plain in style, durable, and functional. Around the time of the American Civil War, the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, New York, increased their production and marketing of Shaker chairs. They were so successful that several furniture companies produced their own versions of "Shaker" chairs. Because of the quality of their craftsmanship, original Shaker furniture is costly.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'Tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down Where we ought to be - And when we find ourselves In the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley Of love and delight. When true simplicity is gained, To bow and to bend We shan't be asham'd, To turn, turn, will be our delight, Till by turning, turning We come round right

[eahu204]

The lads have released a new single. Great tune and a cool video

The Shaker Hymn - The Runaway