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Author_Linda Davenport
Category=AV
Cheerful Passion
choral repertoire history
doddridge
Dotted Sixteenth Note
early American music
eighteenth century American psalmody
Eighth Note
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Grace Note
Half Note
Hell Trembles
Horae Lyricae
hymns
james
john
Lacks Mark
MHB
NES
New England composers
NH2 Maxim
Performance Note
philip
Philip Doddridge
Poetic Meter
psalm
Psalm Watts
psalmody analysis
Quarter Note
relly
Revolutionary War era music
Sacred Harmony
sacred music scholarship
saints
Sixteenth Note
Staccato Marks
Version Psalm
watts
Watts Horae Lyricae
Watts Hymns
Watts Psalm 103ii
Worcester Collection
Ye Saints
Product details
- ISBN 9780815324270
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first modern edition of the collected works of Supply Belcher, Maine's most celebrated early composer, who was known in his day as the Handel of Maine. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Maine was part of the northeastern frontier, a sparsely settled area that held to the old ways. Thus, its compilers reprinted and singers sang the music of Billings, Read, Swan, Holden, and other Yankee psalmodists long after a reform movement had swept them from the galleries of southern New-England churches. Belcher was a man much honored in the region as a musician, a public servant, and a civic leader. Following military service in the Revolutionary War, he opened Belcher's Tavern, where local musicians frequently gathered for sings. In addition to being a composer, Belcher was also a singer, a violinist, and a prominent member of the Stoughton Musical Society. He published seventy-four works between l788, when his first tune appeared in print, and 1819, when his final contributions to psalmody were issued. As this edition of his collected works reveals, his vigorous and skillful pieces show him to have been an original and creative spirit in psalmody, and even today are worthy of attention and performance.
