Sacred Melodies : composed and arranged as Solos, Duetts, Trios, Quartetts, &c. with an accompaniment for the piano forte
Boston: Carter, Hendee, 1833.
Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #16172
Front flyleaf gutter broken with string ties holding front cover and spine covering to text, tone with foxing, owner's 1834 signature, 1" spine tail chip, edgeworn, faded notes on rear paste-down, wear. Still solid oversize hardcover. ; An uncommon work, published shortly after Mason, Webb and Samuel A. Eliot established the Boston Academy of Music. Marbled paper boards with cover label, black spine covering with gilt rulings. On verso of title page: "Enquiry has been frequently made for sacred music suitable for the parlor, and the social circle - forming a medium between Psalmody, and music of a merely secular character. To supply this demand, the present number of a work is offered as a specimen; should it be found to answer the design, others will be published." Contains 28 musical scores. Lowell Mason, regarded as father of public school music education in the United States and advocate of church congregational singing, composed of over 1600 hymns including "Joy To The World" and the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb". ; 91, [1] pages.
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