JOHN HUBBARD

John Hubbard (b. Townsend, Mass., 8 Aug. 1759; d. Hanover, N.H., 14 Aug. 1810), a composer, musical connoisseur and teacher, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1785. After serving as a schoolmaster and later a judge in New Hampshire, he was hired (1804) as professor of natural philosophy at Dartmouth. There he helped to form the Handel Society (1807). Hubbard's An Essay on Music, delivered as a speech to the Middlesex Musical Society in 1807 and published the next year, is a powerful statement for musical reform.

          Bio-bib, Metcalf. Also Crawford 1968, p. 182-84 and elsewhere; McKay 1975, р. 193-96; Parish 1810; Pichierri 1960, p. 161-74.

HARMONIA SELECТА

The Worcester Massachusetts Spy, 14 May 1789, carried a proposal 'for printing by subscription, Harmonia Selecta... by J. Hubbard, A.M.' The work was described as 'a Collection of Musick, never published in America. Containing many valuable Pieces of Musick, both Vocal and Instrumental, from Handel, S. Allessandri, Giardini, Burney, Madan, Arne, Harmonia Sacra, and other celebrated Authors [b]oth English and Italian' (E21893), and was to be printed by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, 'as soon as 500 Subscribers are obtained.' There is no indication that the work was ever published.

ASMI p. 341.