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Adams, Charles B.  Our Moravian Hymn Heritage:  Chronological Listing of Hymns and Tunes of Moravian Origin in the American  Moravian Hymnal of 1969.  Bethlehem:  Department of Publications, 1984.  A discussion of Moravian hymns in their historical context, along with capsule biographies of the authors and composers.

Blail, Gerhard.  Jesu, Geh Voran:  Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Sein Lied.  Hamburg:  Agentur des Rauhen Hauses, 1997.  “Jesus Still Lead On:  Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf and His Hymn.”  A study of MBW 799.

Boeringer, James, editor.  Choral-Buch by Christian Gregor:  A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1784.  Winston-Salem and Bethlehem:  Moravian Music Foundation Press, 1984.  Introduction by Martha Asti.  Translation of the author’s preface by Karl Kroeger.

Crews, C. Daniel.   John Antes.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Music Foundation, 1997.  Antes (1740-1811) was a central figure in the 18th-century Moravian Church: craftsman, composer, missionary.

--------.  Moravian Composers: Paragraph Biographies.  Winston-Salem:  Moravian Music Foundation, 1999.

--------.  Johann Friederich Peter and His Times.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Music Foundation, 1990.  Peter (1746-1813) was an important Moravian pastor, musician, and composer.

--------.  Zinzendorf: The Theology of Song.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 1999.

Crews, C. Daniel, and Nola Reed Knouse, translators.  All Needful Gifts: Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 1999.

--------.  Be Now and Evermore Our Head:  Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf.  Winston-Salem:  Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 1996. 

David, Hans. T.  Musical Life in the Pennsylvania Settlements of the Unitas Fratrum.  Winston-Salem:  Moravian Music Foundation, 1959.

Frank, Albert H.  Companion to the Moravian Book of Worship.  Winston-Salem and Bethlehem: Moravian Music Foundation, 2004.

--------.  “Writing a Moravian Hymnal Companion: Walking in the Footsteps of Müller, Erxleben, Adams, and Williams.”  The Hinge 12 (Autumn) 2005): 2-19.  The 2005 Moses Lectures in Moravian Studies.

Knouse, Nola Reed.  Opening a Can of Worms: Reflections on Music and Worship in Today’s Moravian Church.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Music Foundation, 1996.

--------.  “Moravian Music:  Introduction, Theme, and Variations.”  Journal of Moravian History 2 (Spring 2007):  37-54.

Knouse, Nola Reed, editor.  The Music of the Moravian Church in America.  Rochester, New York:  University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Knouse, Nola Reed, and C. Daniel Crews.  Moravian Music: An Introduction.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Music Foundation, 1996.

Larson, Paul S.  An American Musical Dynasty:  A Biography of the Wolle Family of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  Bethlehem:  Lehigh University Press, 2002.

Libin, Laurence.  “The Memoirs of David Tannenberg.”  Journal of Moravian History 2 (Spring 2007):  118-134.

McCorkle, Donald.  The Moravian Contribution to American Music.  Winston-Salem:  Moravian Music Foundation, 1956.

The Moravian Book of Worship.  Bethlehem and Winston-Salem: 1995.  The most recent hymnal and liturgies of the Moravian Church in North America.

Müller, Joseph Theodor.  Hymnologisches Handbook zum Gesangbuch der Brüdergemeine.  Herrnhut:  Verlag des Vereins für Brüdergeschichte, 1916.  “Hymnological Handbook to the Hymnal of the Moravian Church.”

Taupman-Carr, Carol A., editor.  “Pleasing for Our Use”:  David Tannenberg and the Organs of the Moravians.  Bethlehem:  Lehigh University Press, 2000.  Papers from the 1995 Tannenberg conference, held in Bethlehem, Nazareth, and York, Pennsylvania.

Van den Bosch, Ben.  The Origin and Development of the Trombone Work of the Moravian Churches in Germany and All the World.  C. Daniel Crews, translator.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Music Foundation, 1990.

Vogt, Peter.  “The Moravian Music Tradition in Germany:  Continuity and Change from 1865 to 1907.”  Journal of Moravian History 3 (Fall 2007):  89-99.

 

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