Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sacred Vocal Music in PA German Culture

Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center

105 Seminary Street

Pennsburg, PA 18073

Tel. 215-679-3103

Fax  215-679-8175

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www.schwenkfelder.com

 

 

Saturday, June 20, 2009

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

 

Cost is $50 for attendees - includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch - $30 for students and sr. citizens (over 65)

 

The symposium will focus on the    history of sacred vocal music among various Pennsylvania Germans, comparing the music of the “Church” Germans - the Reformed and Lutheran groups which comprised the majority of the immigrant Germanic population of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - and the sectarian groups, which in the case of this program includes Mennonites, Brethren, Schwenkfelders, and Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata. 

Rather than being musicological in scope, as many of the studies have been in the past, the Heritage Center seeks to present a discussion of the  cultural heritage of vocal music, its European roots, and how it evolved in Pennsylvania.  

 

Here's the schedule:

 

8:30 am  Arrival & Continental Breakfast

9:00 am  Dr. Don Yoder

Keynote Address:

Pennsylvania German Hymnody

as a Research Field

10:00 am Dr. Allen Viehmeyer

Schwenkfelder Use of the Hymnal of the Bohemian Brethren.

10:45 am -  Break

11:00 am  - Dr. Daniel Grimminger

The Discovery of Musical Tastes in Southeastern Pennsylvania at the Turn of the  Nineteenth Century

11:45 am – Joel Alderfer & Colleagues

Mennonite Hymn Singing Performance

12:15 pm – Lunch

1:15  pm  - Hedwig Durnbaugh

The Eighteenth Century Hymn Tradition

of the Descendants of the Schwarzenau Brethren.

2:00 pm  - Dr. Jeff Bach

Ephrata Hymnals as Devotional Guides

2:45 pm  - Break

3:00 pm—Candace Perry

Singing Schools and Schoolmasters

3:30 pm—Questions to Presenters

4:00 pm—Adjournment