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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Das Ges&#xE4;ng der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel-Taube nemlich der christlichen Kirche. : Oder geistliche u. erfahrungs-volle Leidens u. Liebes-Geth&#xF6;ne, als darinnen beydes die Vorkost der neuen Welt als auch die darzwischen vorkommende Creutzes- und Leidens-Wege nach ihrer W&#xFC;rde dargestelt, und in geistliche Reimen gebracht /</dc:title><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    Beissel, Conrad,
    1690-1768.
  </dc:creator><dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">text</dc:type><dc:publisher xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ephrata. : Drucks der Br&#xFC;derschafft,</dc:publisher><dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">im Jahr 1747.</dc:date><dc:language xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ger</dc:language><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">A collection of 277 hymns used by the Ephrata Community, all original compositions; about two-thirds of these hymns were contributed by Johann Conrad Beissel.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Intended to replace the earlier hymn-book: Zionitischer Weyrauchs H&#xFC;gel oder: Myrrhen Berg. Germantown, 1739.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">First edition. Two other editions, also dated 1747, but published in 1749 and the 1750s, are known.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Signatures:</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Funke (in Doll &amp; Funke) reports two unnumbered pages between p. 356 and 357, not mentioned by Hildeburn.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Includes index.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Introduction: "Eine sehr deutliche Beschreibung, wie sich das hohe und wichtige Werck unser geistlichen Sing-Arbeit erboren, und was der Nutzen von der gantzen Sach sey. Gegeben von einem Friedsamen und nach der stillen Ewigkeit wallenden Pilger." (p. [8-21], 1st count; a treatise, by Johann Conrad Beissel, on the basic rules of harmony peculiar to the choral music of the Ephrata Cloister)</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Evans</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Hildeburn, C.R.  The issues of the press in Pennsylvania,</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sachse, J.F.  The music of the Ephrata Cloister,</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doll &amp; Funke</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Carter Brown Library has only fragment of copy: p. 117-124 (P2-Q1). On the bottom of three pages, handwritten music notations have been added. The library also has xerox copies of the index ("Register.", p. [1-5], third count)</dc:description><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ephrata Cloister</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Hymns, German.</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Harmony.</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Choral singing.</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Germans</dc:subject><dc:coverage xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">United States Ephrata.</dc:coverage></oai_dc:dc>