
AMERICANA
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Americana is built around Holy Manna, a beautiful but simple pentatonic
melody, and Nettleton, better known as Come Thou Fount of Every
Blessing. This dynamic arrangement
provides ample opportunity for the sections of your band to shine as the
music unfolds, building to a climatic ending with the merging of the two
themes.
These two songs were important in the flourishing American culture of the
18th and 19th centuries, when they were frequently sung at the revivalist
camp meetings. Composer Charles Ives even mentions Nettleton in his boyhood
memories: I remember, when I was a boy . . . how the great waves of sound
used to come through the treesawhen things like Beulah Land, Woodworth,
Nearer My God to Thee, The Shining Shore, Nettleton, In the Sweet Bye and Bye
and the like were sung by thousands of alet outa souls.
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