The Columbian harmonist, no. 1[-III] : Containing first. A plain and concise introduction to psalmody fitly calculated for the use of singing schools. Second. A choice collection of new psalm tunes of American composition. / By Daniel Read author of the American singing book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Read, Daniel, 1757-1836, author.

Contributor:

Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29389.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study.

Music.

Church music.

Psalmody.

Genre:

Hymns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages of plates, 7 unnumbered pages of plates, 2 unnumbered pages) : music

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Each number has separate title page and index. A "general index to the music in the three numbers" appears on the [2] pages (typeset) inserted after pages [112]. Pages [113-118] contain blank staves.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Engraved by Amos Doolittle. Printer's names supplied by Evans.

Advertised in the Connecticut journal, Sept. 9, 1795, as "lately published in three numbers ... separate numbers are sold at four dollars and a half per dozen. The whole set bound in one vol. at twelve dollars per dozen."

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 29389).

Cited in:

Evans 29389

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (supplement), 2540

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