The Columbian harmonist, no. 2 : containing first. A plain and concise introduction to psalmody fitly calculated for the use of singing schools. Second. A choice collection of sacred music for public and social worship. / By Daniel Read author of The American singing book.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Read, Daniel, 1757-1836.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29390.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study.

Music.

Psalmody.

Church music.

Genre:

Hymns.

Physical Description:

8, 41-71 pages of plates, 1 unnumbered page of plates, 16 pages of plates : music ; 12 x 20 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

New Haven: : Printed [by T. & S. Green] for & sold by the editor Sold also by the principal book-sellers in the United States. (Coppy right secured agreeable to the statute), [1794 or 1795]

Notes:

Three states noted. The first has 39, [1] p. of plates only, so numbered. The second state is paged 8, 41-71, [1] p., and has 16 p. of "Additional music" (i.e. 8 p. of printed music and 8 p. of blank staves) at end. The third state is similarly paged, and has 16 p. of "Additional music" (16 p. of printed music) at end, and a note on verso of t.p., referring to the tune "Agusta [sic]," found on p. 10 of the "Additional music."

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.

Advertised as "now engraving" in the Connecticut journal, New Haven, Dec. 4, 1794. Printers' names supplied by Evans.

Index, p. [80] (p. [40] of the first state).

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29390).

Cited in:

Evans 29390

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (suppl.), 2539

OCLC:

55822590