Alexander Johnson

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Life

Born: 25 February 1791, South Carolina

Died: December 1832, Maury County, Tennessee

Biography

Alexander Johnson was a singing school teacher and tune book compiler in middle Tennessee. "He served as a private in the War of 1812, and married Nelly Craig on 25 January 1816. His Tennessee Harmony (1818), the first music book in middle Tennessee, had a profound influence on The Missouri Harmony and other collections" (Steel and Hulan 2010, also see Music 1984).

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List of choral works

1. Sacred Music

• Captain Kidd
• Columbia
• Crucifixion
• Devotion
• Harpeth
• Jefferson
• Leander
• New Jerusalem
• Olney
• Separation
• Solicitude
• Versailles

2. Secular Music

• Columbia

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Publications

• Johnson, Alexander, Compiler. 1818. Johnson's Tennessee Harmony. Cincinnati, Ohio: Morgan, Lodge, and Company. 110 pp. Second Edition, 1821. Third Edition, 1824.

References

• Music, David W. 1984. Alexander Johnson and the Tennessee Harmony. Current Musicology 37/38:59-73.
• Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.

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