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Hutterite Songs.(Book Review)

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| December 01, 2004 | Klassen, Doreen Helen | COPYRIGHT 2004 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Hutterite Songs. By Helen Martens. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies.) Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press; Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2002. [xxi, 330 p. ISBN 1-894710-24-X. $29.] Music examples, bibliography.

For the past several decades, folklorists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and literary scholars have been engaged in vigorous debate over the nature of oral transmission of both texts and music. Helen Martens's revision of her doctoral dissertation on the origins and aural transmission of Hutterite hymn tunes (Hutterite Songs: The Origins and Aural Transmission of Their Melodies from the Sixteenth Century [Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1968]) is a welcome ...

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