Amos Pilsbury

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. There is no Wikipedia page yet.

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.

List of choral works at CPDL

A. BY TITLE

Autumn Cambridge Canaan Charleston Chesterfield Dartmouth Dover Edson Franklin Guilford Hadley Hamburgh Haverhill Judea Kedron Kingston Madison Massachusetts

Middlesex Moment's Thought Morning Mount Calvary Mount Moriah Orangeburgh Petition Pinckney Street Portland Potomac Psalm 112 Rhode Island Rockingham Salem South Carolina Trenton Triumph

  B. BY FIRST LINE

• Agonizing in the garden
• How happy every child of grace

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List of all choral works (all published in 1799)

HTI	Title	Meter	Key	Comment
7873	Autumn	6.6.7.7.7.7	f
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.
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.
7889a	Kingston	8.7.8.7.4.0.7	a	Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music.
7890	Maddison	6.6.6.0.6	a
7891	Massachusetts	6.6.8.6.6.6.8.6.0.0.0	b
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.
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