Nation of Singing Birds, A - Sermon and Song in Wales and Among the Welsh America
A book all about the Welsh love of song, and the singing of hymns in particular, and how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination. By the…
Specifikacia Nation of Singing Birds, A - Sermon and Song in Wales and Among the Welsh America
A book all about the Welsh love of song, and the singing of hymns in particular, and how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Wales - thanks to a repertoire of appealing hymns and an easily-learned form of musical notation - was the fabled sea of song. Other nations were drawn to the siren-like power of hymns but perhaps no other has sung them with quite such fervor. In America, where the Welsh settled in numbers, they continued to sing. In monoglot, tightly-knit settlements in Delaware, Ohio, Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania, chapels were invariably the focus of community life, and it was a group of Welsh migrants to Utah, led by John Parry, who formed the nucleus of the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Musicality, however, was not confined to the singing of hymns. Harry Caplan, the