Earlier American Composers:
A Survey in Sound

 

 

 

This collection of music was compiled and edited by music preservationist, Roger Hall

from music in the American Music Recordings Archive (AMRA)

The music is from the earliest American song in 1759 to a song from 1920.

You can order one audio title or all 48 titles.

Performances are by various soloists and choral ensembles including

the Old Stoughton Musical Society chorus, America's oldest surviving choral society,

organized in 1786.

See "Dedication" - Singing in Stoughton, 1762-1992

 

 

 

This recording produced by the American Music Recordings Archive (AMRA)

 

Read about the World Premiere performance in 1992

of the majestic SONG OF OUR SAVIOUR Cantata (1881) by E.A. Jones - click here

 

 

 

+ = First recording = 24 titles listed below

 

Part 1: 1759-1805

24 Music selections:

1. My days have been so wondrous free (1759) - Francis Hopkinson
2. When Jesus Wept - William Billings
3. Boston - William Billings
4. +Majesty - William Billings
5. David's Lamentation - William Billings
6. Kittery - William Billings
7. Chester - William Billings (1778, 1786)
8. +Charity Anthem - William Billings
9. Easter Anthem - William Billings
10. The Heavenly Vision - Jacob French
11. +Monmouth - Jaco French
12. +Dormant - Jacob French
13. Mortality - Daniel Read
14. Norfalk - Daniel Read
15. Sherburne - Daniel Read
16. Windham - Daniel Read
17. Greenwich - Daniel Read
18. Amity - Daniel Read
19. Russia - Daniel Read
20. Victory - Daniel Read
21. Northfield - Jeremiah Ingalls
22. New Jerusalem - Jeremiah Ingalls
23.+Confidence - Oliver Holden
24. Coronation - Oliver Holden

Part 2: 1800-1865

25. +Jerusalem My Glorious Home - Lowell Mason
26. +The Stoughton Waltz - Oliver Shaw
27. There's Nothing True But Heaven - Oliver Shaw
28. +The Pure, The Bright, The Beautiful (1863)- Stephen Foster
29. +Over The River (1863) - Stephen Foster
30. +Give Us This Day (1863) - Stephen Foster
31. +What Shall The Harvest Be? (1863) - Stephen Foster
32. We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More (1862)- Stephen Foster

 

    

Part Three: 1866-1890

33. +Festival Hymn (1872) - Dudley Buck
34. +Centennial Meditation of Columbia (1876 U.S. Centennial) - Dudley Buck
35. +Praise Ye The Lord (Dartmouth Glee Club, 1874) - Edwin Arthur Jones
36 +Blessing and Glory (Dartmouth Glee Club, 1874) - E.A. Jones
37. +Song of Our Saviour (Alto Air)(1881) - E.A. Jones
38. +Song of Our Saviour (Trio - "Look unto me and be saved") - E.A. Jones
39. +Old Stoughton (1886) - E.A. Jones
40. +EASTER CONCERT oratorio (Lord God of Hosts)(1890) - E.A. Jones
41. +The Farewell Waltzes for piano - E.A. Jones

    

 

 

Part 4: 1890-1920

42. Grand Mass in Eb Major (1892) - Qui tollis peccata mundi - Amy Beach
43. Grand Mass in Eb Major (1892) - Quoniam tu solus sanctus - Amy Beach
44. Let this mind be in you (1924) - Amy Beach
45. Land of Our Heart7s (1918) - George W. Chadwick
46. +Turn Ye, Turn Ye (1890) - Charles E. Ives
47. +Easter Carol (1892) - Charles E. Ives
48. The Collection (1920) - Charles E. Ives

 

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