Read: Musica Ecclesiae, Part 1

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 1
Nos. 1–124

Edited by Karl Kroeger

A048 Read: Musica Ecclesiae, Part 1
978-0-89579-560-1 Full Score (2004) 9x12, xxiii + 211 pp.
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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.
Common Meter Tunes, Major Mode
1. Mear
2. London
3. Barby
4. Dundee
5. St. Stephen's
6. Gloucester
7. St. David's
8. Arlington
9. Nazareth
10. St. Humphrey's
11. St. James'
12. Howard's
13. Mohegan
14. Victory
15. Melody
16. St. Martin's
17. Clifford
18. St. John's
19. Winter
20. Failsworth
21. Bedford
22. Ashley
23. Aldwinkle
24. Abridge
25. Bethel
26. Swanwick
27. Arundel
28. Brattle Street
29. Wareham
30. Wiltshire
31. Peterborough
32. Christmas
33. Moravia
34. St. Gregory's
35. Irish
36. Seneca
37. Braintree
38. Colchester
39. New-York
40. Austria
41. Mount Pleasant
42. Geneva
43. Canterbury
44. Damascus
45. Safety
46. Liverpool
47. Newmark
48. Harborough
49. Carlington
50. Milners
51. Salem
52. Nottingham
53. Carr's Lane
54. Messiah
55. Pensance
56. Pickering
57. Foster
58. Alexandria
59. Weston Favel
60. Boston
61. Tryberg
62. China
63. Loughton
64. St. Levi's
65. Burlington
66. Old Colchester
67. Blossom
68. St. Asaph's
69. Oatlands
70. Salter's Hall
71. Bray
72. York
73. Oxford
74. Rochester
75. Great Milton
76. Hephzibah
77. Newark
78. Trumpet
79. Warrington
80. Abington
81. Orford
82. Johnsbury
83. Clarendon
84. Stoneley
85. Dunchurch
86. St. Ann's
87. Cowper
88. Lambeth
89. Kendall
90. Merseilles
91. Enfield
92. Portsmouth
93. Bohemia
 
Common Meter Tunes, Minor Mode
94. Standish
95. Burford
96. Coleshill
97. Windsor
98. Walsal
99. Bether
100. St. Mary's
101. Concord
102. Plymouth
103. Crowle
104. Bangor
105. Matlock
106. Collingham
107. Brunswick
108. Worksop
109. Funeral Hymn
110. Funeral Thought
111. Plympton
112. Dorset
113. Newbury
114. Wallingford
115. Northfield
116. Isle of Wight
117. Wantage
118. Lusatha
119. Martyrs
120. Buckingham
121. Hesperus
122. Meredith
123. Fareham
124. Lebanon