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'''1. Compositions of Amos Pilsbury'''
'''1. Compositions of Amos Pilsbury'''
'''1a. Psalm-tunes'''
'''1a. Psalm-tunes'''
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Revision as of 17:38, 1 January 2018

Life

Born: 15 October 1772, Newbury, Massachusetts

Died: 19 October 1812, Charleston, South Carolina

Biography

Amos Pilsbury was a silversmith, schoolteacher, and a clerk in the Presbyterian Church. In 1799 he compiled United States Sacred Harmony. David Music (1995) found that Pilsbury's influence was significant on early nineteenth century music, especially on such works as Wyeth's Repository, Kentucky Harmony, Tennessee Harmony, and Western Harmony. It also had a influence on William Walker's Southern Harmony (1835) and The Sacred Harp (1844). There is no Wikipedia page yet.

List of choral works at CPDL

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1. Compositions of Amos Pilsbury

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List of all choral works (all written for four voices, published in 1799)

HTI* Title Meter Key Comment
7873 Autumn 6.6.7.7.7.7 f Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music.
7874 Cambridge 6.6.8.6.6.8.0 a
7875 Canaan 7.7.4.4.7.0 A
7876a Charleston 8.7.8.7 F Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Charlestown in Carden's Western Harmony (1825), Southern Harmony (1835), and The Sacred Harp (1844). Bartimaeus in Hesperian Harp (1948).
7878 Dartmouth 6.6.6.6.6.6 e
7879 Dover 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 b Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Later Pilgrim (James P. Carrell), (1821), and Child of Grace in The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 77a.
7880 Edson 8.6.10.8.0 e
7881 Franklin 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6.0 d
7883 Hadley 8.7.8.7.0 d
7884 Hamburgh 7.7.4.4.7.0 a
7886 Haverhill 7.7.7.7.8.8 D
7887 Judea 6.6.6.6.8.8 G
7888a Kedron 8.8.8.8 e Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Southern Harmony (1835), p. 3; The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 48.
7889a Kingston 8.7.8.7.4.0.7 a Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music.
7890 Madison 6.6.6.0.6 a
7891 Massachusetts 6.6.8.6.6.6.8.6.0.0.0 b Set-piece or short anthem.
7892 Middlesex 8.7.8.7.7.7.0 F
7893 Moment's Thought 6.6.8.6 B
7894 Morning 8.8.8.8 e Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music.
7895 Mount Calvary 6.8.6.8.4.4.6.4.4.6 b
7896 Mount Moriah 6.6.6.6.8.8 e
7898 New Hampshire 8.8.8.8.8.8.0.0.0.8.8 E
7899 Orangeburgh 8.8.6.6.8.8.6.6 a
7901 Pinckney-Street 8.8.7.8.8.7 g
7903 Potomack 6.6.6.6.6.6.6.0.6.6 G
7905 Rhode Island 8.8.6.8.8.6 c Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Also in Southern Harmony (1835), p. 145, and The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 70.
7906 Rockingham 8.3.3.6.0 b
7907 Salem 7.7.0.7.7.0 a
7908 South-Carolina 7.6.7.6.0 D
7909 Trenton 6.6.6.6.0 e
*The Hymn Tune Index

Publications

  • Pilsbury, Amos. 1799. The United States’ Sacred Harmony. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 224 pp.

References

  • Music, David W. 1995. Seven "New" Tunes in Amos Pilsbury's United States' Sacred Harmony (1799) and Their Use in Four-Shape Shape-Note Tunebooks of the Southern United States before 1860. American Music 13(4):403-447.

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