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The beautiful harmony of Mennonite singing, taken in like breath in childhood so that even small children show a wonderful ease and facility with music, forms the core of what is still, in many ways, an oral culture. The hymn provides rolesThe beautiful harmony of Mennonite singing, taken in like breath in childhood so that even small children show a wonderful ease and facility with music, forms the core of what is still, in many ways, an oral culture. The hymn provides roles for everyone, notes for every voice. For a moment, quarrels are dropped and cold wars of silence broken in a thaw as the voices of the combatants join in song. Music, that most transportable of the arts, accompanied the early persecuted Anabaptists, it murmured in their nights as they fled, it carried their stories from place to place, it sheltered their history, it bore them like an ark. And among their descendants, whose culture tends to harbor a deep suspicion of the arts, music, like quilting and needlework, like the composition of gardens, is also a refuge for the aesthetic impulse....more