Recent Researches: A 11-12

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Recent Researches in American Music

The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody
Edited by Richard Crawford


A 11-12	ISBN 0-89579-198-6	(1984) lxxxiv+165 pp.	$78.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-198-6 (13-digit)

Among more than 7,000 sacred compositions published in America by 1810, a small number reappeared in tunebook after tune-book. The Core Repertory--the 101 British and American pieces most frequently printed between 1698 and 1810--is edited here to give choral directors and scholars access to the period's sacred favorites.

This edition presents the 101 British and American pieces most frequently printed between 1698 and 1810. Included are works by William Billings, Orlando Gibbons, Timothy Swan, Daniel Read, and many other American and British composers.

"Infused with wide-ranging intellectual richness, this work of meticulously detailed scholarship in one aspect of American music is thoroughly grounded in its author's uncommon awareness of American Music and American culture as wholes." Nym Cooke, American Music, Fall 1986.

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Winner of The Sonneck Society's Irving Lowens Award, 1986.

See the article on American psalmody in Embellishments 4.