Tannenberg’s career and achievements are a coalescence of his skills, highly valued in the Moravian craft tradition that developed in the eighteenth century, and of the importance of music in Moravian culture and worship, especially hymn-singing.

Once Salem was established in 1771, organs were built for the Saal (place of worship) in 1798 and that same instrument plays today, in the Brothers’ House. When the current church building was finished in 1800, it was appointed with a new organ. The organ was built in Pennsylvania, shipped to North Carolina, and installed by Tannenberg’s apprentice, Philip Bachmann, assisted by Jakob Fetter. In fact, much of the casement was constructed in Salem during this eleven month installation. That 1800 instrument has been replaced twice and was restored and installed in the Old Salem Visitor Center in 2004.

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Music from the Saal, Advent & Christmas program, featuring Gwyn Michel, organist; Ellen Saylor, soprano; Nazareth, PA
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Edited by Sarah Eyerly and Rachel Wheeler

Eighteenth-Century Musical Settings by Joshua Tanis

New Musical Arrangements by Brent Michael Davids

Linguistics by Christopher Harvey

Proceeds (after costs) will benefit

1. The Arvid E. Miller Library and Museum, Stockbridge-Munsee Band Mohican Nation
2. The Lutheran Church of the Wilderness

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Mohican and Moravian Community History
• The History of the Mohican Hymns
• Music and Textual Reconstruction
• About the Recordings
• Acknowledgements

– Texts and Translations

– Pronunciation

– About the Editors

– Sources and Index

( NOTE: The images above include 3 pages of the hymns and a reproduction of a page of hymn texts (on the cover). The other images are not included in the booklet, but are primary sources from whence these modern editions were derived. )

Cover Image: Indian Missions 331.3. n.d. MS Moravian Mission among the Indians of North America 331.3. Moravian Archives. Indigenous Peoples: North America, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/5wyMh9. Accessed 10 Oct. 2018.

(c) 2022 Moravian Music Foundation

Individual hymns from this publication may be reproduced for congregational singing. The copyright notice, printed on each page of the music, must be included on each copy used.

Grider was a member of the Central Choir for over 25 years. He was a flutist, librarian of the Philharmonic Society, and proprietor of the hotel, who mysteriously “wandered away from Bethlehem and never returned.”

1. Enjoyment of the special presence of the Savior;
2. The service of Holy Communion is both communal and individual in nature;
3. Expectation that the fruits of Holy Communion will be lived out in life, even as we look to eternity.

In this booklet, the Rev. Daniel Crews and the Rev. Nola Reed Knouse explore the Moravian celebration of Holy Communion.

Topics such as,

• Christ’s real presence in the sacrament, in all ways, and “any way he wants to be.”
• Discussion of the history of the sacrament in the Unitas Fratrum; the sacrament during the Renewed Unity in the eighteenth century in Saxon Germany; later development; and Holy Communion in today’s American Moravian Church.
• Preparation for the Service
• Celebration of the Sacrament, itself.

Monograph

2012
31 pages

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