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The Resource The ancient lyre : a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston, arranged and composed by Ch. Zeuner

The ancient lyre : a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston, arranged and composed by Ch. Zeuner

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Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
10th ed., rev. and improved.
Extent
1 score ([4], [xxx], [7]-363 p.)
Note
  • Signatures : [A]2 B-D4 1-64 [7]4 8-454 [46]4 ; wove paper
  • ca. 475 hymn tunes ; for SATB ; with piano/organ accompaniment printed in small notes on lower two staves ; each tune headed by title, meter, composer ; ca. 65 anthems, motets, doxologies and set pieces ; for 1-4 voices ; with piano/organ accompaniment in small notes on lower two staves ; each headed by title, composition type, and composer
  • "Introduction to the art of singing" : 11 lessons on rudiments of music, followed by 12 tables containing musical examples and exercises -- p. [xxix]-[xxx]
  • Includes indexes : "Index of the tunes" -- p. 362-363 ; "Anthems, hymns, sentences, &c." -- p. 364 ; "Metrical index" -- p. 364
  • "Containing seventy new tunes" -- t.p
  • Copyright statement : dated 1836 -- t.p. verso
  • Dedication : "To the New York Sacred Music Society and to the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, this work is most respectfully dedicated" -- p. [3] front of book
  • "Preface to the tenth edition" : " ... This edition has ... had a thorough revision, and particular care has been taken to keep it free from trifling and improper compositions ... The editor has been anxious to resist the influence of that corrupt taste which makes no discrimination between the sacred offices of the church and compositions suited to mere secular purposes ... Many of the old tunes ... have been carefully revised ..." -- p. [3] front of book
  • Includes compositions by Luther, Haydn, Beethoven, Pleyel, Pergolesi, Handel, Corelli, Mazzinghi, Rousseau, and Mozart ; includes selections from American harp, Village hymns and Harmonia sacra
  • Quarter-calf binding with pressed oblong boards and green paper covers ; front cover bears t.p. information ; back cover bears advertisement for publisher
Instance
Label
The ancient lyre : a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston
Title
The ancient lyre
Title remainder
a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston
Statement of responsibility
arranged and composed by Ch. Zeuner
Creator
Contributor
Dedicatee
Publisher
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
WAU
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1795-1857
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Zeuner, Charles
Form of composition
multiple forms
Format of music
full score
Literary text for sound recordings
not applicable
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  • 1716-1796
  • 1767-1822
  • active 1775-1800
  • 1705?-1741
  • approximately 1734-1805
  • 1758-1827
  • 1746-1800
  • 1726-1814
  • 1752-1832
  • 1733-1795
  • 1748-1829
  • 1788-1872
  • 1687?-1743
  • 1748-1782
  • 1726-1790
  • 1699?-1783
  • 1740-1816
  • fl. early 19th cent
  • 1696-1755
  • 1698-1768
  • 1757?-1822
  • 1762-1798
  • 1748-1810
  • 1756-1808
  • 1707-1787
  • 1762-1820
  • 1731-1776
  • 1773-1861
  • 1732-1815
  • 1826-1886
  • 1654-1728
  • 1748-1810
  • 1758-1842
  • 1746-1815
  • 1735-1807
  • 1678-1727
  • 1592?-1635?
  • approximately 1565-1634
  • active 1687-approximately 1735
  • 1717-1799
  • 1783-1873
  • 1698-1768
  • approximately 1563-1647
  • -1708
  • 1710-1778
  • 1726-1800
  • 1770-1827
  • 1775-1859
  • (ca.)1505-1585
  • 1757-1836
  • 1749-1821
  • 1735-1781
  • 1792-1854
  • 1752-1844
  • approximately 1550-1633
  • 1700-1776
  • 1710-1770
  • 1761-1826
  • approximately 1710-1793
  • fl. early 19th cent
  • 1735-1804
  • 1865-1945
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  • Giardini, Felice
  • Stanley
  • Costellow, T.
  • Prelleur, Peter
  • Smith, Is.
  • Taylor, Richard
  • Billings, William
  • Burney, Charles
  • Burder, George
  • Linley, Thomas
  • Shield, William
  • Venua, F.
  • Carey, Henry
  • Wainwright, Robert
  • Zacchini, G.
  • Thorley, T
  • Shoel, Thomas
  • Madan, Martin
  • Tans'ur, William
  • Webbe, Samuel
  • Oates, George
  • Greene, Maurice
  • Tuckey
  • Knapp, William
  • Jackson, G. K.
  • Leach, J.
  • Cecil, Richard
  • Mather, William
  • Harwood, Edward
  • Holyoke, Samuel
  • Cook, R
  • Williams, A.
  • Holt, Benjamin
  • Hudson
  • Harrington, C. S.
  • Hill, Sumner
  • Steffani, Agostino
  • Harrison
  • Swan, Timothy
  • Lucas
  • Brownson, Oliver
  • Jones
  • Miller, Edward
  • Croft, William
  • Ravenscroft, Thomas
  • Kirbye, George
  • Tucker
  • Courteville, Raphael
  • Randall, John
  • Jackson, Thomas
  • Knapp, William
  • Milton, John
  • Blow, John
  • Arne, Thomas Augustine
  • Jones, William
  • Spofforth, Reginald
  • Clark, Thomas
  • Tallis, Thomas
  • Read, Daniel
  • Law, Andrew
  • Milgrove, Benjamin
  • Mornington, Garrett Colley Wellesley
  • Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew
  • Wyvill
  • Lockhart, C.
  • Darwell, J
  • Levesque
  • Morgan, David Jenkin
  • Blankes, Edward
  • Kent, James
  • Avison, Charles
  • Kimball, Jacob
  • Hatton, John Warrington
  • Beastall, William
  • Holdroyd, Israel
  • Clark, I
  • Twining, Thomas
  • Harrod, J
  • Burney, J
  • Jennings
  • Metcalf, Frank J.
  • Crocker & Brewster
  • New York Sacred Music Society
  • Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.)
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  • Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with keyboard instrument ensemble
  • Hymns, English
  • Anthems
  • Tune-books
  • Music
Label
The ancient lyre : a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston, arranged and composed by Ch. Zeuner
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Signatures : [A]2 B-D4 1-64 [7]4 8-454 [46]4 ; wove paper
  • ca. 475 hymn tunes ; for SATB ; with piano/organ accompaniment printed in small notes on lower two staves ; each tune headed by title, meter, composer ; ca. 65 anthems, motets, doxologies and set pieces ; for 1-4 voices ; with piano/organ accompaniment in small notes on lower two staves ; each headed by title, composition type, and composer
  • "Introduction to the art of singing" : 11 lessons on rudiments of music, followed by 12 tables containing musical examples and exercises -- p. [xxix]-[xxx]
  • Includes indexes : "Index of the tunes" -- p. 362-363 ; "Anthems, hymns, sentences, &c." -- p. 364 ; "Metrical index" -- p. 364
  • "Containing seventy new tunes" -- t.p
  • Copyright statement : dated 1836 -- t.p. verso
  • Dedication : "To the New York Sacred Music Society and to the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, this work is most respectfully dedicated" -- p. [3] front of book
  • "Preface to the tenth edition" : " ... This edition has ... had a thorough revision, and particular care has been taken to keep it free from trifling and improper compositions ... The editor has been anxious to resist the influence of that corrupt taste which makes no discrimination between the sacred offices of the church and compositions suited to mere secular purposes ... Many of the old tunes ... have been carefully revised ..." -- p. [3] front of book
  • Includes compositions by Luther, Haydn, Beethoven, Pleyel, Pergolesi, Handel, Corelli, Mazzinghi, Rousseau, and Mozart ; includes selections from American harp, Village hymns and Harmonia sacra
  • Quarter-calf binding with pressed oblong boards and green paper covers ; front cover bears t.p. information ; back cover bears advertisement for publisher
Dimensions
16 x 25 cm.
Edition
10th ed., rev. and improved.
Extent
1 score ([4], [xxx], [7]-363 p.)
Note
  • Inscriptions : "Richardson Metcalf" rubber stamped -- front endpapers ; "Wm. Metcalf" in pencil -- front endpapers ; numerous illegible pencillings -- front endpapers ; "Minor scale in assending [sic] the semitone two and three, seven and eight. descending six and five and three two" in pencil -- p. xv.
  • Hinges worn ; leather spine dessicated but still flexible ; damage to front board ; losses to paper covers ; front endpapers with creases and losses ; foxing to textblock.
System control number
(OCoLC)27204918
Label
The ancient lyre : a collection of old, new, and original church music, under the approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Boston, arranged and composed by Ch. Zeuner
Publication
Note
  • Signatures : [A]2 B-D4 1-64 [7]4 8-454 [46]4 ; wove paper
  • ca. 475 hymn tunes ; for SATB ; with piano/organ accompaniment printed in small notes on lower two staves ; each tune headed by title, meter, composer ; ca. 65 anthems, motets, doxologies and set pieces ; for 1-4 voices ; with piano/organ accompaniment in small notes on lower two staves ; each headed by title, composition type, and composer
  • "Introduction to the art of singing" : 11 lessons on rudiments of music, followed by 12 tables containing musical examples and exercises -- p. [xxix]-[xxx]
  • Includes indexes : "Index of the tunes" -- p. 362-363 ; "Anthems, hymns, sentences, &c." -- p. 364 ; "Metrical index" -- p. 364
  • "Containing seventy new tunes" -- t.p
  • Copyright statement : dated 1836 -- t.p. verso
  • Dedication : "To the New York Sacred Music Society and to the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, this work is most respectfully dedicated" -- p. [3] front of book
  • "Preface to the tenth edition" : " ... This edition has ... had a thorough revision, and particular care has been taken to keep it free from trifling and improper compositions ... The editor has been anxious to resist the influence of that corrupt taste which makes no discrimination between the sacred offices of the church and compositions suited to mere secular purposes ... Many of the old tunes ... have been carefully revised ..." -- p. [3] front of book
  • Includes compositions by Luther, Haydn, Beethoven, Pleyel, Pergolesi, Handel, Corelli, Mazzinghi, Rousseau, and Mozart ; includes selections from American harp, Village hymns and Harmonia sacra
  • Quarter-calf binding with pressed oblong boards and green paper covers ; front cover bears t.p. information ; back cover bears advertisement for publisher
Dimensions
16 x 25 cm.
Edition
10th ed., rev. and improved.
Extent
1 score ([4], [xxx], [7]-363 p.)
Note
  • Inscriptions : "Richardson Metcalf" rubber stamped -- front endpapers ; "Wm. Metcalf" in pencil -- front endpapers ; numerous illegible pencillings -- front endpapers ; "Minor scale in assending [sic] the semitone two and three, seven and eight. descending six and five and three two" in pencil -- p. xv.
  • Hinges worn ; leather spine dessicated but still flexible ; damage to front board ; losses to paper covers ; front endpapers with creases and losses ; foxing to textblock.
System control number
(OCoLC)27204918

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