Two Connecticut Composers
Author: Karl Kroeger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780815321712
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Three Connecticut Composers
Author: Karl Kroeger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1135651426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1997. This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music—psalmody, as it was called—in collected critical editions. Each volume has been prepared by a scholar who has studied the musical history of the period and the stylistic qualities of the composer. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American com posers in accurate editions for both performance and study. This volume presents the music of three composers who were active and influential in northwestern Connecticut during the 1780s and 1790s: Oliver Brownson, Alexander Gillet, and Solomon Chandler.
Three Connecticut Composers
Author: TAYLOR & FRANCIS
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: 1997-01-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780815324041
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The Collected Works
Author: Supply Belcher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780815324270
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Daniel Belknap (1771-1815)
Author: Daniel Warren Steel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-23
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 113562349X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Belknap was a farmer, mechanic, and singing-master in Framingham, Massachusetts, who compiled four sacred and one secular tunebooks. These featured his own sacred compositions as well as those by other New England composers. While Belknap was not as flamboyant, prolific, nor as innovative as his contemporaries, he nevertheless provided fitting and eloquent religious and social music for his own and neighboring communities.
Samuel Babcock (ca. 1760-1813)
Author: Laurie Sampsel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1135622868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Babcock was an active Boston-area composer who made a significant contribution to the repertory of American psalmody. Best known for his tunebook, Middlesex Harmony, Babcock composed extended and plain psalm tunes, set pieces, fuging tunes, and anthems, and frequently used three-part vocal textures. He uniquely combined elements of both traditional and newer Methodist styles of psalmody. This edition includes 75 works known to be by Babcock, plus six of unknown attribution.
Oliver Holden (1765-1844)
Author: David W. Music
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1135626227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music—psalmody, as it was called—in collected critical editions. Each volume has been prepared by a scholar who has studied the musical history of the period and the stylistic qualities of the composer. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American composers in accurate editions for both performance and study. This volume presents selected music by one of the best known and most prolific composers of New England psalmody during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Oliver Holden was a native and life-long resident of Massachusetts.
Joseph Stone
Author: Karl Kroeger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1135622582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music—psalmody, as it was called—in collected critical editions. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American composers in accurate editions for both performance and study. This volume presents the collected works of Joseph Stone (1758-1837), one of the most interesting and prolific of American psalmodists
Eliakim Doolittle (1772-1850) and Timothy Olmsted (1759-1848)
Author: Maxine Fawcett-Yeske
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1135623775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together 79 sacred tunes by two Connecticut composers: Eliakim Doolittle, who wrote psalm and fuging tunes in an unpretentious, familiar idiom, and Timothy Olmsted, who wrote psalm tunes in a more sophisticated, florid musical style. This final edition in the Music of the New American Nation series includes a comprehensive index of tune names and first lines for all fifteen volumes.
Samuel Holyoke (1762-1820) and Jacob Kimball (1761-1826)
Author: Harry Eskew
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-25
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 113562321X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music・psalmody, as it was called・in collected critical editions. Each volume has been prepared by a scholar who has studied the musical history of the period and the stylistic qualities of the composer. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American composers in accurate editions for both performance and study. This volume presents representative compositions by two American psalmodists, Samuel Holyoke and Jacob Kimball, who were actively engaged in the reform of American psalmody during the 1790s and early 1800s. American compositions were often criticized for two features: their failure to conform to the harmonic norms of European art music and their often vigorous, animated musical style, which was sometimes considered lacking in a reverent spirit appropriate for use in public worship
