Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly

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Book Review| April 01 2022 Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah JustinaEyerly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xvi, 269 pp. With companion website Moravian Soundscapes by SarahEyerly, MarkSciuchetti, and AndyNathan, https://moraviansoundscapes.music.fsu.edu/ Stephen A. Marini Stephen A. Marini STEPHEN A. MARINI is Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and Professor of Religion in America and Ethics at Wellesley College. He is also the founder and singing master of Norumbega Harmony, a choral ensemble specializing in early American psalmody and the repertoire of the Southern singing-school tunebook The Sacred Harp (1844). His most recent book is The Cashaway Psalmody: Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which has been awarded the Lloyd Hibbert Endowment by the American Musicological Society. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (1): 200–209. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.200 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen A. Marini; Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2022; 75 (1): 200–209. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.200 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The Moravians of colonial Pennsylvania are enjoying renewed attention today from scholars with diverse interests. The Moravians’ rapid rise, communal institutions, controversial devotional and sexual practices, and sudden financial crisis during the mid-eighteenth century have been explored in important recent studies by Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Katherine Carté Engel, and Paul Peucker, among others.1 Now Sarah Justina Eyerly offers a sweeping new interpretation of their rich music culture and distinctive sound environments in Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. Founded by Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf of Saxony (1700–1760), the Moravians, or Herrnhut Community of Brothers (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine), brought together a group of Hussite exiles from Bohemia with followers of the count’s own vision of Lutheran Pietism. In 1722, Zinzendorf welcomed the remnant of the Unity of the Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), Jan Hus’s fifteenth-century religious reform movement, to Herrnhut, a town on his... You do not currently have access to this content.