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"Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and composed in 1848, generally attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett from Alfred Shaker Village. It became widely known when Aaron Copland used its melody for the score of Martha Graham 's ballet Appalachian Spring , which premiered in 1944.
"Lord of the Dance" is a hymn written by English songwriter Sydney Carter in 1963. [1] The melody is from the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts" composed in 1848.The hymn is widely performed in English-speaking congregations and assemblies.
Brackett is known today primarily as the presumed author of the Shaker dancing song "Simple Gifts", which has become an internationally loved tune, both through his original version and many of its adaptations. There are two conflicting narratives of Shaker origin as to the composer of the song.
Copland used the Shaker song "Simple Gifts" throughout much of Appalachian Spring, first playing it in its entirety at the start of the "Interlude". [ 110 ] [ 111 ] [ 136 ] In the "Interlude", four variations on "Simple Gifts" are introduced, some fitting the atmosphere of the action on stage (like one variation reminiscent of the clip-clop of ...
The Boatman's Dance (minstrel song from 1843) The Dodger (campaign song) Long Time Ago (ballad) Simple Gifts (Shaker song) I Bought Me a Cat (children's song, Roud Folk Song Index No. 544) Set 2 The Little Horses (lullaby) Zion’s Walls (revivalist song) The Golden Willow Tree (Anglo-American ballad) At the River Ching-A-Ring Chaw (minstrel song)
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
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