The Moravian heritage of community musicking

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

 
 
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Title The Moravian heritage of community musicking
 
Creator Boonzaaier, Devandre de Villiers, Alethea C.
 
Subject church music; heritage Moravian; heritage; community; musicking; South Africa; hymns.
Description In this article, the authors firstly provide a brief historical narrative of the origin of the Moravian Church and its hymnody. Secondly, they proceed to trace the origins of Moravian hymnals and their use in South Africa. Thirdly, they discuss the history of Moravian hymnals in South Africa and the contribution of South African composers and musicians. Several articles and books were consulted to trace the contribution of the Moravian hymnal from its origins in Herrnhut in Germany to Genadendal, the first Moravian mission station in South Africa and the spread of the Moravian denomination to the rest of the country. The authors also provide short biographies of selected South African Moravian composers and highlight the connectedness of Moravians across time through their hymnody. Moreover, in this article the authors use the term, ‘musicking’ to describe the musical activity from composing to performing to listening-in-audience to singing.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor CATHSSETA University of Fort Hare
Date 2019-11-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — qualitative; interviews; literature study
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/td.v15i1.641
 
Source The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 15, No 1 (2019); 10 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434
 
Language eng
 
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https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/641/1137 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/641/1136 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/641/1138 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/641/1135
 
Coverage South Africa Moravian Church Moravian church Coloured Moravian composers
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Devandre Boonzaaier, Alethea C. de Villiers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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