Nov 16, 2011

Amish Singing

The Amish do not want to be photographed or recorded by audio.
However, occasionally Amish singing is
recorded surreptiously and without consent.
The person who recorded an Amish Youth Group singing the song

The Amish sing from the Ausbund, a collection of hymn texts
that dates from the sixteenth century.
The Ausbund remains in print until the present.
It is the oldest Protestant hymnal in existence.
Some hymns contain hundreds of verses, and because of the slow,
sustained melodic style, they may last an hour or longer.
Music notations do not appear in the hymn books.
It is necessary to rely on memory.
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George