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    Title

    The Christian Harmony

    Authors

    William Walker

    Publication Date

    1866

    Collections

    Language(s)

    • English

    Publisher

    Philadelphia, PA : E. W. Miller and William Walker
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    Full Title

    Christian harmony, The ; containing a choice collection of hymn and Psalm tunes, odes and anthems, selected from the best authors in Europe and America ; together with a large number of new tunes, from eminent composers, never before published ; embracing a great variety of metres suited to nearly all the metres contained in the various hymn and Psalm books used by the different denominations of Christians. Designed also for the use of singing schools, choirs, social and private singing societies. In the seven syllable system of musical notation, with seven characters. Also a copious elucidation of the science of vocal music, and plain rules for beginners.

    Pagination

    xx, [21]-384 pages

    Dimensions

    16.5 x 25 cm

    Condition

    complete

    Notation

    Seven-shape Walker

    Instrumentation

    • soprano (chorus part)
    • treble (chorus part)
    • alto (chorus part)
    • counter (chorus part)
    • tenor (chorus part)
    • bass (chorus part)

    Content

    Sacred

    Still in Use

    Yes

    Subject

    • Tunebooks
    • Hymns, English
    • Church music
    • Choral societies
    • Christian union
    • Singing schools
    • Musical notation--Instruction and study
    • Musical notation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    • Music theory--Instruction and study
    • Elocution--Study and teaching
    • Tract societies
    • Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
    • Booksellers and bookselling
    • Regionalism in music
    • Hymn tunes--Metrics and rhythmics
    • Tunebooks--editing
    • Copyright--Music
    • Teachers colleges
    • Phrenology
    • English language--Versification
    • Motherhood
    • Vocalises
    • Composition (Music)
    • Choruses, sacred (mixed voices), unaccompanied
    • Folk music--Germany
    • Contrafacta
    • Performance practice (Music)
    • Indians in art
    • Tunebooks--prices
    • Folk music--United States
    • Reformation
    • Shape-note hymnals
    • Marginalia
    • Anthems
    • Gospel music
    • Hymn tunes, Arranged
    • Hymn tunes--Editing
    • Composition (Music)--Instruction and study
    • Aikin, J. B. (Jesse Bowman), 1808-1900
    • Mason, Lowell, 1792-1872
    • Webb, George James, 1803-1887
    • Hauser, William, 1812-1880
    • Periodicals
    • Georgia--Hamilton
    • North Carolina--Alexander County
    • Hymn tunes--Analysis, appreciation
    • Women composers
    • Hymns--Homiletical use
    • Child mortality
    • Tennessee
    • Glees, catches, rounds, etc.
    • Solmization
    • Postal service
    • Composers
    • Emory and Henry College
    • Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.)
    • South Carolina--Lawsons Fork Creek
    • Georgia--Nacoochee Valley
    • United States--French Broad River

    Archive

    Middle Tennessee State University. Center for Popular Music

    Collection

    Rare Books

    Creator

    Walker, William, 1809-1875

    Creator URI

    http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83065793

    Place of Publication Getty

    United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia

    Place of Publication Getty URI

    http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014406

    Publisher Name

    William Walker

    Publisher URI

    http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83065793

    OCLC Number

    79477234

    Place of Contributor Affiliation

    • United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg, Glenn Springs
    • United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg, Spartanburg

    Place of Contributor Affiliation URI

    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2095866
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014524

    Place of Manufacture

    United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia

    Place of Manufacture URI

    http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014406

    Place of Distribution

    • United States, North Carolina, Wake, Raleigh
    • United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pittsburg
    • United States, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Lancaster
    • United States, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill, Pottsville
    • United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne, Wilkes-Barre
    • United States, Ohio, Hamilton, Cincinnati
    • United States, Ohio, Lucas, Toledo
    • United States, Ohio, Richland, Mansfield
    • United States, Ohio, Montgomery, Dayton
    • United States, Illinois, Cook, Chicago
    • United States, Iowa, Dubuque, Dubuque
    • United States, Iowa, Lee, Keokuk
    • United States, Tennessee, Davidson, Nashville
    • United States, Tennessee, Shelby, Memphis
    • United States, Louisiana, Orleans, New Orleans
    • United States, Missouri, Saint Louis City, Saint Louis
    • United States, Missouri, Greene, Springfield
    • United States, Missouri, Buchanan, St. Joseph
    • United States, Georgia, Bibb, Macon
    • United States, South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston
    • United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg, Spartanburg
    • United States, Virginia, Winchester, Winchester
    • United States, West Virginia, Wood, Parkersburg
    • United States, Maryland, Baltimore Independent City, Baltimore
    • United States, Texas, Galveston, Galveston Island, Galveston
    • United States, Texas, Harris, Houston
    • United States, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville
    • United States, New York, New York
    • United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
    • United States, Georgia, Fulton, Atlanta
    • United States, Tennessee, Davidson, Nashville
    • United States, Virginia, Richmond, Richmond

    Place of Distribution URI

    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013949
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    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014214
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    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014532
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014443
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013980
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013582
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014524
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017708
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2119512
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013352
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014041
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013727
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013915
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1002715
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014406
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    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013959
    • http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013964

    Title Page Text

    [cover :] THE | CHRISTIAN HARMONY: | CONTAINING A CHOICE COLLECTION OF | HYMN AND PSALM TUNES, ODES AND ANTHEMS, | SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA; | TOGETHER WITH | A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW TUNES, FROM EMINENT COMPOSERS, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED; | Embracing a Great Variety of Metres | SUITED TO NEARLY ALL THE METRES CONTAINED IN THE VARIOUS HYMN AND PSALM BOOKS USED BY THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS OF CHRISTIANS. | DESIGNED ALSO FOR | THE USE OF SINGING SCHOOLS, CHOIRS, SOCIAL AND PRIVATE SINGING SOCIETIES. | IN THE SEVEN SYLLABLE SYSTEM OF MUSICAL NOTATION, WITH SEVEN CHARACTERS. | ALSO A | COPIOUS ELUCIDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF VOCAL MUSIC, AND PLAIN RULES FOR BEGINNERS. | BY WILLIAM WALKER, | AUTHOR OF "THE SOUTHERN HARMONY," AND "THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN POCKET HARMONIST." | "It is a good thing to thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever." - DAVID | "And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." - ISAIAH XXX. 10. | PHILADELPHIA: | PUBLISHED BY E. W. MILLER AND WILLIAM WALKER. | AND FOR SALE BY | CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, PHILADELPHIA; A. S. BARNES & CO, NEW YORK; J. W. BOND & CO., BALTIMORE, MD.; AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, RICHMOND, VA.; | E. J. HALE & CO., NEW YORK CITY; S. HART SR., CHARLESTON, S. C. ; SHELDON & CONNOR, ATLANTA, GA.; W. T. BERRY & CO., NASHVILLE, TENN.; H. WADE & CO., MEMPHIS, TENN.; | H. A. REDFORD, LOUISVILLE, KY.; COBB, PRITCHARD & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.; | BOWEN, STEWART & CO., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.; MOORE, WILSTACH & MOORE, CINCINNATI, OHIO.

    Physical Description

    1 vocal score: xx, [21]-384 p.

    Scoring Summary

    Coro

    Total Scoring

    Coro S (Treble) (2);Coro A (Counter);Coro T;Coro B

    Medium

    songbook

    Digital Format

    image/tiff

    Dublin Core Type

    Image

    Item Type

    Print with non-autograph annotations

    License Name

    No Copyright - United States

    Place of Publication FAST

    Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

    Place of Publication FAST URI

    http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204170

    Country

    United States

    State

    • Illinois
    • Iowa
    • Maryland
    • Louisiana
    • Tennessee
    • West Virginia
    • Missouri
    • Pennsylvania
    • Kentucky
    • New York
    • Georgia
    • North Carolina
    • South Carolina
    • Ohio
    • Texas
    • Virginia

    County

    • Dubuque, Iowa
    • Orleans, Louisiana
    • Saint Louis City, Missouri
    • Wood, West Virginia
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Charleston, South Carolina
    • Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    • Buchanan, Missouri
    • Lee, Iowa
    • Richland, Ohio
    • Fulton, Georgia
    • Montgomery, Ohio
    • Harris, Texas
    • Shelby, Tennessee
    • Baltimore Independent City, Maryland
    • Greene, Missouri
    • Hamilton, Ohio
    • Jefferson, Kentucky
    • Wake, North Carolina
    • Richmond, Virginia
    • Lucas, Ohio
    • Winchester, Virginia
    • Davidson, Tennessee
    • Luzerne, Pennsylvania
    • Cook, Illinois
    • Bibb, Georgia
    • Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
    • Allegheny, Pennsylvania
    • Spartanburg, South Carolina

    Inhabited Place

    • Dubuque, Iowa
    • Nashville, Tennessee
    • St. Joseph, Missouri
    • Baltimore, Maryland
    • Springfield, Missouri
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Charleston, South Carolina
    • Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    • Louisville, Kentucky
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Saint Louis, Missouri
    • New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Toledo, Ohio
    • Macon, Georgia
    • Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Glenn Springs, South Carolina
    • Parkersburg, West Virginia
    • New York, New York
    • Mansfield, Ohio
    • Atlanta, Georgia
    • Keokuk, Iowa
    • Richmond, Virginia
    • Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
    • Dayton, Ohio
    • Winchester, Virginia
    • Raleigh, North Carolina
    • Houston, Texas
    • Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
    • Memphis, Tennessee
    • Spartanburg, South Carolina
    • Pottsville, Pennsylvania

    People

    Walker, William, 1809-1875
  • Attribution
    Institution

    Middle Tennessee State University

    License

    https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

    Identifier

    SP-050633

    Scanned By

    Creekside Digital

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