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The Fugue in the Style of the 18th Century
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produced by Václav Nelhýbel, 1919-1996 (Folkways Records, 1964), 1 hour 53 mins

This instructional compilation introduces the Fugue through a variety of songs by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Vaclav Nelhybel, Vaclav explains in detail what the Fugue is, breaks down its varying components and follows each explanation with a sample of music to illustrate the point. Liner notes include wri...

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produced by Václav Nelhýbel, 1919-1996 (Folkways Records, 1964), 1 hour 53 mins
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Gospel, Season 1, Episode 2, The Golden Age of Gospel
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directed by Shayla Harris; produced by Eric Thielman, fl. 2019, Kevin Burke, Stacey Holman, fl. 1999 and Shayla Harris, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
Starting in the 1940s, Gospel’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel -- the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the segregated highways of the American South -- through the successful careers of Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. As the lines between the sacred and secular blur, gospel...
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directed by Shayla Harris; produced by Eric Thielman, fl. 2019, Kevin Burke, Stacey Holman, fl. 1999 and Shayla Harris, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
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Gospel, Season 1, Episode 3, Take the Message Everywhere
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directed by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999; produced by Chelsea Adewunmi, fl. 2018, Kevin Burke, Stacey Holman, fl. 1999 and Shayla Harris, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
Gospel’s hour 3 reveals how gospel was going mainstream and family dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Christ, would dominate the charts. Meanwhile, other children of the church used their heavenly voice to influence soul music. As gospel artists took the message everywhere, Black pastors continued to...
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directed by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999; produced by Chelsea Adewunmi, fl. 2018, Kevin Burke, Stacey Holman, fl. 1999 and Shayla Harris, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
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Gospel, Season 1, Episode 4, Gospel's Second Century
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directed by Shayla Harris; produced by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999, Shayla Harris, Eric Thielman, fl. 2019 and Kevin Burke, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 4 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
Gospel’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music producers, record executives and artists embraced the secular rhythms of R&B and hip-hop to modernize the gospel sound. The launch of the Platinum Age of Gospel brought commercially successful songs about faith to millions in clubs, on cable TV a...
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directed by Shayla Harris; produced by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999, Shayla Harris, Eric Thielman, fl. 2019 and Kevin Burke, Inkwell Media Inc. and McGee Media, in Gospel, Season 1, Episode 4 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2024), 53 mins
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Gregorian Chant: Musically Speaking No.1
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produced by Mildred Kayden, 1922- (Folkways Records, 1957), 43 mins

Mildred Kayden opens the album with an in-depth interview with Dom Ludovic Baron about the history and developments of chants, followed by several examples of "Plain Chant". Dom Ludovic Baron says "we can sing; our chant will have all the power of its expression and the grace that passes through it… it will trav...

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produced by Mildred Kayden, 1922- (Folkways Records, 1957), 43 mins
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Jewish Life: The Old Country
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produced by Ruth Rubin, 1906- (Folkways Records, 1958), 43 mins

When Eastern European Jews immigrated en masse to the United States in the 1880s and ’90s fleeing Czarist oppression and poverty, they brought with them a body of secular folk songs. Sung in Yiddish by men and women who came here from five villages (with English translations and explanations), this recording...

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produced by Ruth Rubin, 1906- (Folkways Records, 1958), 43 mins
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Music Down Home: An Introduction to Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.
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produced by Charles Edward Smith, 1904-1970 (Folkways Records, 1965), 1 hour 28 mins

This 1965 recording traces the evolution of African American folk music from the South.The oral tradition of folk music in the African American community has demonstrated a perseverence through the eras of slavery and segregation while embracing and influencing American popular music through songs, lyrics and perf...

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produced by Charles Edward Smith, 1904-1970 (Folkways Records, 1965), 1 hour 28 mins
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Music for the Harpsichord and Virginal
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(Folkways Records, 1962), 38 mins

Recorded in 1961, Stewart Robb’s collection of early to mid seventeenth-century keyboard music comes from the British Isles and continental Europe. He performs on two instruments: one, the commonly-heard harpsichord, and the other the virginal, a word often used to describe plucked keyboard instrument of the 16...

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(Folkways Records, 1962), 38 mins
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