Preserving Our Musical Past

PineTree Productions Presents...
 

Preserving Our Musical Past

A deluxe multi-media book with an extensive amount of historical material
on American music, compiled by Roger Lee Hall, a musicologist and composer
who has researched this music for over four decades.
Included on the DVD-R are Microsoft Word documents (also pdf),
240 audio files and 3 bonus videos.
These are the five major areas covered on the DVD:

 
The DVD is divided into 10 topics under 5 main headings:
I. CLASSICAL COMPOSERS:
--Composer Tributes
--Three Composers: William Billings, George Chadwick, Aaron Copland.

II. FILM MUSIC:
--A Guide To Film Music (4th edition)

III. NEW ENGLAND MUSIC:
--Boston Peace Jubilees - 1869, 1872, 1889
--Old Stoughton - Singing Meetings and Concerts
IV. POPULAR SONGS:
--Remembering Radio - Great Songwriters and Singers
--Shake, Rattle and Roll - Electric Elvis and Bill Randle
--Two Centuries of American Songs, 1759-1859/ 1861-1961

V. SHAKER SPIRITUALS:
--Music Collections: For The Love Of Zion/ How Happy Are They
--Song Monographs: Gentle Words/ Simple Gifts
Also included are these 240 audio files:

AMERICA IN SONG - Volume 1 (1768-1918) - 25 audio files
AMERICA IN SONG - Volume II (1861-1961) - 25 audio files
A CONVERSATION WITH AARON COPLAND – 30 audio files
LISTENER'S GUIDE TO FILM MUSIC - 25 audio files
FIVE NEW ENGLAND COMPOSERS: Oliver Shaw, Dudley Buck,
Edwin Arthur Jones, Charles E. Ives, George Whitefield Chadwick - 15
files
GENTLE WORDS – A Shaker Music Sampler - 28 audio files
NEW ENGLAND CHORAL SAMPLER - 28 audio files
OLD STOUGHTON MUSIC SAMPLER - America's oldest choral society- 24 files
REMEMBERING RADIO - 24 audio files
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL - 16 audio files

Plus 3 bonus videos:
MEMORABLE MOVIE MUSIC - film historian, Roger Hall,
speaks about the history of film songs and scores and
presents two video clips from films of the 1940s and 1950s.
OLD STOUGHTON AND THE GRAND CONSTITUTION – including a one-act play
concerning the U.S. Constitution and Stoughton Musical Society
Constitution,
both written in 1787. The Old Stoughton Musical Society was founded in 1786
and is
now the oldest choral society in the U.S.A.
SIMPLE GIFTS - performed by harpist, Diane Schneider, and singer, Roger Lee
Hall, in the historic meeting house at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village in
Kentucky.
For information how to order this multi-media DVD, see this link:

http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/POMP.htm