Earlier American Vocal Composers:
A Survey in Sound

Compiled and Edited
by Roger Hall

 

 

This collection was compiled and edited by Roger Hall and
produced by the American Music Recordings Archive (AMRA)
with music from the 18th to early 20th centuries.

It is available on one DVD-ROM with 48 music examples from 15 American composers
plus two half hour video programs from Massachusetts cable telecasts.

Performances 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

 

Click the links below for sample music clips (for web listening only)

+ = First recording = 24 titles

Part 1: 1759-1805

24 Music selections:

1. My days have been so wondrous free - 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
8. +Charity Anthem - William Billings
9. Easter Anthem - William Billings
10. The Heavenly Vision - Jacob French
11. +Monmouth - Jaco French
12. +Dormant - Jacob French - click here
13. Mortality - Daniel Read
14. Norfalk - Daniel Read
15. Sherburne - Daniel Read
16. Windham - Daniel Read
17. Greenwish - 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

Cable TV Program (1987): Old Stoughton and The Grand Constitution

Note: This TV program was presented in celebration of the
200th anniversary of both the U.S. Constitution and
Stoughton Musical Society Constitution both written in 1787.

Part 2: 1800-1865

25. +Jerusalem My Glorious Home - Lowell Mason
26. +Hymn For The New Year (1819) - 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)
31. +What Shall The Harvest Be? (1863) - Stephen Foster - listening - click here
32. We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More (1862)- Stephen Foster


Cable TV program (1986): Civil War Hymns by Stephen Foster

Note:
This TV program featured premiere performances of hymns by 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 - listening example - click here
38. +Song of Our Saviour (Bass recitative & Final Chorus) - E.A. Jones
39. +Old Stoughton (1886) - E.A. Jones
40. +EASTER CONCERT oratorio (Lord God of Hosts)(1890) - E.A. Jones
41. +EASTER CONCERT (The Lord is King) - E.A. Jones

    

 

 

Part 4: 1890-1920

42. Quonium tu solus (from Mass in Eb, Op. 5)(1892) - Amy Beach
43. +Turn Ye, Turn Ye (1890) - Charles E. Ives - listening example - click here
44. +Easter Carol (1892) - Charles E. Ives
45. +Crossing The Bar (1891) - Charles E. Ives
46. The Collection (1920) - Charles E. Ives
47. Land of Our Hearts (1918) - George W. Chadwick
48. +Song of the Marching Men (from THE NEW EARTH, 1919) - Henry K. Hadley

 

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