Kentucky Harmony (Ananias Davisson)

General Information

Short Title: Kentucky Harmony

Full Title: Kentucky Harmony: Or, a Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems, in Three Parts, Taken from the Most Eminent Authors, and Well Adapted to Christian Churches, Singing Schools, or Private Societies.

Editor - Composer: Ananias Davisson

Publication date and place: 1816 by Ananias Davisson in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 140 pp.
Second Edition 1816, 159 pp. Third Edition 1819, 159 pp. Fourth Edition 1820. Fifth Edition 1826, 160 pp.

Description: This book, along with its companion volume, Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony in 1820, had a large influence on music in the American West¹ and South² of that day. Davisson's arrangements and original compositions were reprinted or revised in almost all following books of the West and South, including

• Alexander Johnson's Tennessee Harmony (1818)
• Allen Carden's Missouri Harmony (1820)
• William Moore'sColumbian Harmony (1825)
• William Walker's Southern Harmony (1835)