Timothy Swan

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Life

Born: 23 July 1758, Worcester, Massachusetts

Died: 23 July 1842, Northfield, Massachusetts

Biography: Timothy Swan was an American hatter, merchant, poet, and composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During the American Revolution, he was a fifer. He contributed psalm-tunes to compilations from 1783, and published his own New England Harmony in 1801.

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List of choral works

1. Listed by Title

Psalm-Tunes

• Appleton (Timothy Swan)
• Arnon (Timothy Swan)
• Balloon (Timothy Swan)
• Bondage (Timothy Swan)
• Boxford (Timothy Swan)
• Bristol (Timothy Swan)
• Burwick (Timothy Swan)
• Canaan (Timothy Swan)
• Canton (Timothy Swan)
• China (Timothy Swan)
• Claradon (Timothy Swan)
• Denbigh (Timothy Swan)
• Digby (Timothy Swan)
• Dover (Timothy Swan)
• Egypt (Timothy Swan)
• Energy (Timothy Swan)
• Flanders (Timothy Swan)
• Franklin (Timothy Swan)
• Government (Timothy Swan)
• Holland (Timothy Swan)
• Leghorn (Timothy Swan)
• Lisbon (Timothy Swan)
• London (Timothy Swan)
• Lutestring (Timothy Swan)
• Lyme (Timothy Swan)
• Majesty (Timothy Swan)
• Montague (Timothy Swan)
• Moreen (Timothy Swan)
• Orange (Timothy Swan)
• Patmos (Timothy Swan)
• Poland (Timothy Swan)
• Portland (Timothy Swan)
• Pownal (Timothy Swan)
• Quincy (Timothy Swan)
• Rainbow (Timothy Swan)
• Rome (Timothy Swan)
• Ronda (Timothy Swan)
• Ross (Timothy Swan)
• Russell (Timothy Swan)
• Scotland (Timothy Swan)
• Thanksgiving (Timothy Swan)
• Trinity (Timothy Swan)
• Upton (Timothy Swan)
• Vermont (Timothy Swan)
• Verona (Timothy Swan)

Anthems and Set-Pieces

• Calvary (Timothy Swan)
• Dedication Anthem (Timothy Swan)
• Judgment (Timothy Swan)
• Let the shrill trumpet's warlike sound (Timothy Swan)
• The Seasons (Timothy Swan)
• Solomon's Song (Timothy Swan)

2. Listed by First Line

Along the banks where Babel's As pants the hart for cooling streams Behold, I fall before Thy face Come, let us join our cheerful songs Deep in our hearts let us record Eternal source of every joy From all that dwell below the skies God counts the sorrows of his saints God counts the sorrows of his saints God of my life, look gently down Great God, whose universal sway He called for darkness, darkness came

He framed the globe, He built the sky Hosanna to Jesus on high How sweet the voice, how sweet the hand Infinite grief! Amazing woe Let the shrill trumpet's warlike sound Meet and right it is to sing Methinks I hear the heavens resound My Savior and my King My sorrows, like a flood My soul, thy great Creator praise Now to the Lord a noble song O come let us join

Oft I am told the muse will prove Our days are as the grass Rejoice, ye shining worlds on high Return, O God of love, return Sure there's a righteous God Sweet is the work, my God, my King The God of glory sends his summons forth The lofty pillars of the sky The Lord Jehovah reigns The Lord my Shepherd is The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice The voice of my beloved sounds

Think, mighty God, on feeble man Tis by thy strength the mountains stand Uncertain life, how soon it flies Wandering pilgrims, mourning Christians When marching to thy blest abode Why do we mourn departing friends Ye birds of lofty wing Ye sons of men with joy, record Ye tribes of Adam, join

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Publications

• Swan, Timothy, Compiler. 1801. New England Harmony. Northampton, Massachusetts. 110 pp.

External links

• Biography at the Suffield Library
• Swan 1801 at IMSLP

References

• Bayley, Daniel. 1785. The Essex Harmony, or Musical Miscellany. Newburyport: The Author and Son. 40 pp.
• Benham, Asahel. 1790. Federal Harmony. New Haven: A. Morse. 36 pp.
• Benjamin, Jonathan. 1799. Harmonia Coelestis. Northampton: Andrew Wright. 79 pp.
• Brownson, Oliver. 1785. Select Harmony. [Hartford, Connecticut?] 84 pp.
• Brownson, Oliver. 1797. A New Collection of Sacred Harmony. [Hartford, Connecticut?] 56 pp.
• Cooke, Nym, Editor. 1997. Timothy Swan: Psalmody and secular songs. Madison, Wisconsin: American Musicological Society and A-R Editions.
• Ely, Alexander. 1792. The Baltimore Collection of Church Music. Baltimore: John Hagerty. 48 pp.
• Little, William, and William Smith. 1801. The Easy Instructor, or A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony. [Philadelphia] . 105 pp.
• Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.
• Stickney, John. 1783. The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion. Newburyport: Daniel Bayley. 160 pp.