There is no getting away from the music of the spheres. But the monochord returned for the anthology’s 1997 CD reissue. In the 1960s the mystical gave way to social realism: Folkways replaced the de Bry drawing with a photograph of a Depression farmer. The instrument is a representation of musica universalis, the music of the spheres, the harmonies of heavenly bodies in motion. Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways, 1952) was first issued with extraordinary cover art: a Theodor de Bry drawing of a celestial monochord, a one-stringed instrument, tuned by a hand emerging from a cloud. Mother’s Last Word to Her Son : Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There : Paul and Silas in Jail : Lift Him Up That’s All : Denomination Blues - Part 1 : Denomination Blues - Part 2 : I Am Born to Preach the Gospel : Train Your Child : Jesus Is My Friend : What Are They Doing in Heaven Today : A Mother’s Last Word to Her Daughter : I’ve Got the Keys to the Kingdom : You Can’t Stop a Tattler - Part 1 : You Can’t Stop a Tattler - Part 2 : I Had a Good Father and Mother : The Church Needs Good Deacons Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams.
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