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Spectacle > Performing arts > Music > Gift songs
Musical ensemble > Music > Gift songs

Preferred term

Gift songs  

Definition

  • Shaker songs "received" by the composer in a dream, trance or vision; often highly irregular in form and with texts wholly or partly in unknown tongues or pidgin English [Music on the Mountain]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Solemn songs, Shakers

Notation

  • 119296

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-V4937PD8-Q

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