The austere beauty of Shaker craftsmanship is unsurpassed, as is the haunting loveliness of Shaker music. This book is the definitive collection of Shaker folk hymns complete with sheet music for each tune, illustrations of Shaker art and artifacts, plus...a free CD containing the 28 traditional Shaker songs featured in the book, performed by the famous Boston Camerata. Music played a central role in Shaker life and worship - from the English folk music of the early Shakers, purged of worldly lyrics and accompanied by the fiddle, to the more traditional hymns written later, often based on verses of Scripture and composed with a lively tempo.