History | Moravian Music Foundation https://moravianmusic.org Preserving, Sharing, and Celebrating Moravian Musical Culture Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:31:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://moravianmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-MMF-Horn-small-online-icon-1-32x32.png History | Moravian Music Foundation https://moravianmusic.org 32 32 Organs In The Wilderness https://moravianmusic.org/product/organs-in-the-wilderness/ https://moravianmusic.org/product/organs-in-the-wilderness/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:25:51 +0000 http://dev.thesignalcompany.com/foundation/shop_music/?post_type=product&p=111 by Dr. Charles G. Vardell
1993 (Reprinted from the original edition of 1944)
23 pages

A publication of the Moravian Music Foundation

Moravians, organ building, and music in eighteenth-century North Carolina.

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Moravians, organ building, and music in eighteenth-century North Carolina
by Dr. Charles G. Vardell

1993 (Reprinted from the original edition of 1944)
23 pages

A publication of the Moravian Music Foundation

From the text of a lecture given by Mr. Vardell in the Winston-Salem chapter of the  Torch Club, while he was Dean of Music at Salem College.

Wherever the Moravians settled, either in America or abroad, music became a focal center of the cultural and the religious life of pioneer communities, however remote. – Howard Rondthaler, President, Salem College

Bethabara Diary
July 8, 1762:
Reaping continued. Br. Graff set up in our Saal the organ he brought from Bethlehem; and during the Singstunde in the evening we heard an organ played for the first time in Carolina and were very happy and thankful that it had reached us safely.

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This book places Moravian music in cultural and religious context and demonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America's most distinctive ethno-cultural populations. The chapters examine sacred and secular works, both vocal and instrumental.

Preface by the Rev. Nola Reed Knouse, Ph.D., former Director of the Moravian Music Foundation

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Preface by Nola Reed Knouse
excerpt: “The musical heritage of the Moravians is 550 years old now, and continues to grow from deep roots. To all who have taught and learned, composed and edited, sung and played, and worshiped with this music, past and present, and to those who will do so in our future, this work is humbly dedicated.”

Chapters:

  1. The Moravians and Their Music – N. R. Knouse
  2. Moravian Worship – C. Daniel Crews
  3. Hymnody of the Moravian Church – Albert Frank and N. R. Knouse
  4. Moravian Sacred Choral Music – Alice M. Caldwell
  5. The Organ in Moravian Church Music – Lou Carol Fix
  6. The Role and Development of Brass Music in the Moravian Church – Paul Peucker
  7. The Collegia Musica: Music of the Community – N. R. Knouse
  8. Music in the Moravian Boarding Schools – Pauline M. Fox
  9. The Piano among the Moravians – Jewel A. Smith
  10. Moravian Music: Questions of Identity and Purpose – N. R. Knouse

Appendix 1 Biographical Sketches

Appendix 2 A Moravian Musical Timeline

 

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