Read: Musica Ecclesiae, Part 3

Series: American Music  Publisher: A-R Editions
This volume is part of the set Read: Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony
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Daniel Read
Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony, Part 3
Nos. 277–405

Edited by Karl Kroeger

A050 Read: Musica Ecclesiae, Part 3
978-0-89579-562-5 Full Score (2004) 9x12, ix + 256 pp.
$110.00
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In the years following the Revolutionary War, Daniel Read (1757–1836) was a popular composer of hymn and fuging tunes and a successful compiler of tunebooks. During the last decade of his life, he compiled Musica Ecclesiae (1832), a tunebook that he offered to the American Home Missionary Society to publish for its profit. But the Society declined his offer, and the book was never published. Musica Ecclesiae consists of 405 pieces arranged for three or four voices with instrumental support from the organ. Most of the pieces are of European origin but are edited and harmonized by Read. He includes twenty-six of his own tunes that had never been published. The edition, in three volumes, includes many of the most popular psalm and hymn tunes of the day, along with the editors' historical introduction, Read's extensive discussion of musical rudiments, a critical commentary, and several indexes.
Particular Meter Tunes
277. Weymouth
278. Bethesda
279. Amherst
280. Norwich
281. Portsmouth
282. Ranelagh
283. Eagle Street
284. Darwell's
285. Old 148th
286. Swithin's
287. Shropshire
288. Triumph
289. Shaftsbury
290. Albion
291. Waterford
292. Millington
293. Samos
294. St. Helen's
295. Forty-sixth
296. St. Paul's
297. Alicant
298. Luzerne
299. Gardner
300. Brent
301. Baildon
302. Glover
303. Milan
304. Leicester
305. Latrobe's
306. Worship
307. St. Giles
308. Dalston
309. Walworth
310. Judgment
311. Columbia
312. New 50th
313. Harlem
314. Old 115
315. New Plymouth
316. Landaff
317. Alcester
318. Benevento
319. Hotham
320. Bath Abbey
321. Pleyel's Hymn
322. Resurrection
323. Easter Hymn
324. Ascension
325. Falmouth
326. Redeeming Love
327. Request
328. Turin
329. Launceston
330. Naples
331. Georgia
332. Missionary
333. Paradise
334. Magdalen
335. Finedon
336. Fairfax
337. Bartimeus
338. Smyrna
339. Face of Nature
340. Autumn
341. Wilna
342. Welsh
343. Sicilian Hymn
344. Greenville
345. Cradle-Hymn
346. Stanley
347. Carlisle
348. Hampshire
349. Epworth
350. Eastabrook
351. Mount Calvary
352. Littleton
353. Calvary
354. Tamworth
355. Trevecca
356. Invitation
357. Helmsley
358. Dismission
359. Jordan
360. Aithlone
361. Rapture
362. Croydon
363. Prospect
364. Halifax Chapel
365. Amsterdam
366. Hartford
367. Entreaty
368. Romain
369. Missionary Hymn
370. Holliston
371. Sydney
372. Leoni
373. Infant's Hymn
374. Calabria
375. Buckingham
376. Massillon
377. Kippax
378. Pewsey
379. Isaiah
380. Portuguese Hymn
381. St. Michael's
382. Stockwell
383. Sussex
384. Cheshunt
385. Confidence
386. Lyons
387. Lock
388. Nativity
389. Hinton
390. Portuguese Hymn
391. St. Denis
392. Kensington
393. Trinity Hymn
394. Bermondsey
395. Whitefield's
396. Lausanne
397. Oswego
398. New Jerusalem
399. Spring
400. Argyle
401. Savannah
402. Wesley
403. Voice of Free Grace
404. The Old Sapphic Ode
405. Day of Judgment