Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Hymns

She would stretch on tiptoes to reach the piano keys

A prolific composer, South Carolinian Lily Strickland published 395 musical works for popular, church, and children’s performances.

In some communities there is 100% participation in the singing. Their songbook is and has been since 1832 The Harmonia Sacra.

We might be better served to think of this 15th century English hymn as the “Cherry Tree Carols,” since it exists in many versions.

John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) began collecting Appalachian folk songs and composing music as a KY teenager.

Hundreds of thousands of copies of shaped-note collections of religious songs were put into circulation between 1800 and the end of the Civil War.

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