A VALUABLE SELECTION OF PSALM AND HYMN TUNES, 1808

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A Valuable Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes: from the most esteemed English authors. Adapted to public worship, and which are now used by the congregation at the Independent Tabernacle, in Philadelphia. By Stephen Addington. Philadelphia. Published, by M. Carey, No. 122, Market Street. M,DCCC, VIII. (Entered according to act of Congress.)

2 p.l., 120 p. 15.5 x 23 cm. p. 1-120 engraved.

Copyright granted, 3 June 1807, District of Pennsylvania, to Stephen Addington as prop-rietor (Penn. 2:170). 1st pl. recto, t-p.; verso blank, ad 1. recto blank, verso, Index'; p. 1-120, music.

        81 compositions, incl. 17 set-pieces, for 3 voices; full text. No attribs. 19 1st Am. pr. identified (BLACKFRIARS, CANAAN, CARLISLE, CONDESCENTION, SETHSEMENE, HOPKINS, HORSHEATH, JACKSONS, JUDGMENT, LEACH, MILTON, MOUNT CAL VARY, POLAND, POTSDAM, RESURRECTION, SILVER ST. CHAPEL, SPALDWICK, WALWORTH, WOOLWICH). 181 traced to non-American sources or assumed, from t-p.. to be non-American.9 Core Repertory.

        Not in Shaw-Shoemaker (no copy on Readex), PPL (lacks p. 11-12, 30-31, 77-78, 101-4, and has p. 31-34 bound after p. 120).

NOTE: The tabulation of music is problematic because of 1) an apparent inaccuracy in the index, and 2) missing pages in the only known copy. The index lists 89 compositions, of which BRITANNIA, CANTELO, and DERBY are found neither in their indexed places nor anywhere else in the book. Of the 8 pieces the index assigns to the missing pages, ABRIDGE and UPTON had appeared in several earlier American collections, and their identity can be assumed with confidence. Of the remaining 6, JORDAN'S BANKS and TUTBURY are apparently first American printings; tunes called BREWER and HORSLEY had appeared in earlier Philadelphia tuncbooks-the former in Law's Harmonic Companion (1807), the latter in Aitken's Collection of Divine Music ([2d ed., 1807?]), but there is no way to prove that Addington's tunes were the same; at least 4 different tunes called SOUTHWARK were published earlier, 3 from British sources, and finally, LENOX is the title of one of the most popular of American fuging-tunes, and no other tune with that title was published in America before 1811. Yet the title-page claims that all the music is English, so there remains some doubt that the missing LENOx is the one by Lewis Edson. In view of these difficulties. the tabulation is based on the 79 pieces in the surviving copy, plus ABRIDGE and UPTON

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