The Cashaway psalmody : transatlantic religion and music in colonial Carolina / Stephen A. Marini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marini, Stephen A., 1946- author.

Series:

Music in American life.

Music in American Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hills, Durham, 1730-1771.

Hills, Durham.

Cashaway psalmody.

Hymns, English--South Carolina--18th century--History and criticism.

Hymns, English.

Tune-books--History and criticism.

Tune-books.

Psalms (Music)--South Carolina--18th century--History and criticism.

Psalms (Music).

Psalmody--South Carolina.

Psalmody.

South Carolina--Religion--To 1800.

South Carolina.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 455 pages).

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

Summary:

Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hill's level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill. Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody's significance in understanding how ritual song-transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing-shaped the era's development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Psalmody and its period. Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Part I. Newcastle upon Tyne

All saints

"A schoolmaster in Sandgate"

Religious Newcastle

Trial and transportation

Part II. The Cheraws

Cheraw hill

Itinerant Anglicans and literary Evangelicals

The Welsh tract Baptists

Ministers and missions

Saint David's

To the Cashaway neck singing school

Part III. The Cashaway psalmody

A country psalmody tunebook

Musical theology, theory, and practice

Common tunes

Particular psalms

Occasional hymns I : Festival hymns

Occasional hymns II : A saint's life

Part IV. After Cashaway

Beginnings and endings

Epilogue : Retrospect and prospect

Appendix A : The Durham family genealogy

Appendix B : The Hills family genealogy

Appendix C : The religious, cultural, and familial networks of the Cashaway psalmody

Appendix D : Census of tunes and texts in the Cashaway psalmody.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-435) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252051708

025205170X