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  <language>ger</language>
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  <sponsor>John Carter Brown Library</sponsor>
  <contributor>John Carter Brown Library</contributor>
  <date>1747</date>
  <subject>Ephrata Cloister</subject>
  <subject>Hymns, German</subject>
  <subject>Harmony</subject>
  <subject>Choral singing</subject>
  <subject>Germans</subject>
  <title>Das Gesäng der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel-Taube nemlich der christlichen Kirche. : Oder geistliche u. erfahrungs-volle Leidens u. Liebes-Gethöne, als darinnen beydes die Vorkost der neuen Welt als auch die darzwischen vorkommende Creutzes- und Leidens-Wege nach ihrer Würde dargestelt, und in geistliche Reimen gebracht</title>
  <creator>unknown</creator>
  <creator>Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768</creator>
  <lccn>49042650</lccn>
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  <shiptracking>ST003987</shiptracking>
  <accession>33134</accession>
  <physical>15</physical>
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  <call>JA747 .G389d</call>
  <size>[22], 359, [5] p. ; 21 cm. (in case 22 cm.) (4to)</size>
  <full_bib_id>b22259557</full_bib_id>
  <publisher>Ephrata. : Drucks der Brüderschafft</publisher>
  <description>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</description>
  <description>Intended to replace the earlier hymn-book: Zionitischer Weyrauchs Hügel oder: Myrrhen Berg. Germantown, 1739</description>
  <description>First edition. Two other editions, also dated 1747, but published in 1749 and the 1750s, are known</description>
  <description>Signatures:</description>
  <description>Funke (in Doll &amp; Funke) reports two unnumbered pages between p. 356 and 357, not mentioned by Hildeburn</description>
  <description>Includes index</description>
  <description>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)</description>
  <description>Evans</description>
  <description>Hildeburn, C.R. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania</description>
  <description>Sachse, J.F. The music of the Ephrata Cloister</description>
  <description>Doll &amp; Funke</description>
  <description>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)</description>
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  <publicdate>2015-07-09 15:00:16</publicdate>
  <updatedate>2015-07-09 16:04:43</updatedate>
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  <addeddate>2015-07-09 16:04:45.1251</addeddate>
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  <notes>No covers,title page, copyright, table of contents, chapters.</notes>
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