The national psalmist : a collection of the most popular and useful psalm and hymn tunes ; together with a great variety of new tunes, anthems, sentences, and chants ; the whole forming a most complete manual of church music for choirs, congregations, singing-schools, and musical associations
Lowell Mason, Christian H. Rinck, Harrison, John Cole, W. H. Havergal, Samuel Webbe, Orlando Gibbons, Ferdinand Seidel, Thomas Ravenscroft, William Mason, Israel Holdroyd, Giovanni Battista Viotti, F. Venua, Giovanni Maria Nanino, George F. Root, Jan Hus, Henry K. Oliver, Daniel Read, Etienne Nicolas Méhul, William Knapp, Thomas Hastings, W. H. W. Darley, Benjamin Milgrove, Hudson, Thomas Shoel, Charles Zeuner, Johann Hermann Schein, J. M. Coombs, Cuthbert, William Tans'ur, William Mather, Tucker, William Gardiner, Jeremiah Clarke, William Boyce, Reginald Spofforth, Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, William Jones, Thomas Tallis, Jonathan Battishill, Oliver Holden, Maurice Greene, Vincent Novello, John Randall, Is Smith, Timothy Swan, George Smart, Robert Creighton, Thomas Augustine Arne, Hans Georg Nägeli
Musical Score, English, 1848
Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, Boston, 1848
Anthems
1 score (352 pages [16]) ; 16 x 25 cm
65223602
Signatures: [1]⁴ 2-44⁴ [1]⁴ 2⁴ ; wove paper
Ca. 438 hymn tunes ; for SATB ; with figured bass ; each headed by tune title, meter, and composer ; ca. 37 anthems, occasional pieces and set pieces ; for SATB ; with figured bass ; each headed by title and composer ; 107 numbered chants ; for SATB ; in close score ; without additional accompaniment
"Elements of vocal music" : 36 chapters further divided into 184 lessons on rudiments of music and singing ; with musical illustrations and exercises throughout ; test questions and notes at close of chapters -- p. [6]-30
"Descriptive tables" : tunes divided into congregational vs. choral, different meters, degree of difficulty -- p. 31-32
"Historical, critical, explanatory, and descriptive remarks"--Page 33-34
Copyright statement : dated 1848 -- title page verso
Includes indexes : "Alphabetical index of tunes"--Page 345-346 ; "Metrical index"--Page 347-348 ; "Index to the anthems, occasionals and set pieces"--Page 349 ; "Index to the canticles and scriptural selections and chants"--Page 349 ; "Index to hymns of particular meter"--Page 349-350 ; "Index to hymns of long, common, and short metre" -- p. 350-352
"Vocal exercises for school"--Page [1]-16 at back of book
Preface : includes a critical history of psalmody and hymnody and prescriptive section on congregational versus choral singing ; also includes guide to use of book -- p. 2-5
Includes compositions by Luther, Pleyel, Haydn, Cherubini, Beethoven, Mozart, Palestrina, Salieri, Purcell, Mendelssohn, von Weber, and Corelli and selections from Playford's collection, the Wittenberg collection, the Ainsworth psalter, and the Scotch psalter
Quarter-calf binding with oblong boards and brown paper covers ; front cover bears t.p. information ; back cover bears advertisment for other musical publications