Music of the United States of America

Daniel Read
Collected Works
Edited by Karl Kroeger
 

A 24/MU 4	ISBN 0-89579-319-9	(1995) xxxviii+332 pp.	$158.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-319-5 (13-digit)

Composer, singing master, and merchant, Daniel Read is today considered second in importance only to William Billings among early American psalmodists. If the number of contemporaneous reprints of his music can gauge public acceptance, then Read stood as the most popular American psalmodist of his day. This edition collects Read's 95 published compositions from 1785 to 1810. It also includes an appendix comprising pieces from the 1770s that were later published and pieces from a manuscript collection of the 1830s in which Read repudiated the style of his earlier works.

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Contents 

Daniel Read and American Psalmody, by Karl Kroeger and Richard Crawford

 Psalm Tunes, Fuging Tunes, and Set Pieces
Adams, Admonition, Albany, Amboy, Amity, Annapolis, Asia, Barney, Barnstable, Barrington, Benington, Burlington, Calvary, Camden, Canaan, Charlestown, Christian Soldier, Complaint, Condecension, Coventry, Cypress, Depravity, Derby, Devotion, Dominion, Dover, Doxology, Dryden, Eastham, Edenton, Enfield, Fidelity, Firmament, Freetown, Friendship, Gardiner, Gratitude, Greenwich, Hamilton, Hamshire, Happy City, Holland, Human Frailty, Judgment, Kingston, Lisbon, Lyme, Madison, Mifflin, Monticello, Morning, Morris, Mortality, Naples, Newark, New-England, Newport, Norton, Norwalk, Pembrook, Providence, Refuge, Religion, Resurrection, Ripton, Russia, Sabbath, Sherburne, Smithfield, Stafford, Stonington, Stratford, Sudbury, Supplication, Triumph, Unity, Vespers, Victory, Vienna, Warren, Westford, Windham, Windsor, Winsor, Winter, Zion, Zoar

 Anthems
Anthem: Down Steers the Bass, Anthem: Hear Our Pray'r, O Lord, Anthem: I Know That My Redeemer Lives, Anthem: It Is Better to Go, Anthem: O Be Joyful, Anthem: O Praise the Lord, O My Soul, Anthem: There Were Shepherds

 Appendix 1: Read's Published Music in Manuscript and in The New Haven Collection

 Appendix 2: Contents of Read's Tunebooks

 Appendix 3: Introduction to The American Singing Book
 
 

See the article on American psalmody in Embellishments 4.