The easy instructor, or, A new method of teaching sacred harmony. : Containing the rudiments of music on an improved plan ... With a choice collection of psalm tunes and anthems from the most celebrated authors, with a number composed in Europe and America, entirely new ... Published for the use of singing societies in general, but more particularly for those who have not the advantage of an instructor.
Summary: Shape-note notation.
First tune-book to be printed in shape note notation.
Additional details: "12" repeated in pagination.
Title page and pages 12b-105 engraved; pages [1]-12a typeset.
For 3-4 voices.
Edition Aa in Lowens. The easy instructor. Ann Arbor, 1953.
Little, William, active 1798
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Smith, William, 1761?-1808
English
Tune-books
Nineteenth century
1 score (2 unnumbered pages, 105, that is, 106 pages)
14 x 24 cm
Text
songbooks
First edition
Lowens, I. Music and musicians in early America, pp. 293-294
1801 LITT
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