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1. Edition of Tennessee Harmony, 1818-1821-1824. 2. Carden's Missouri Harmony, 1820. 3. Moore's Columbian Harmony, 1825. 4. Carden's United States Harmony, 1829. 5. Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835
. 6. Caldwell's Union Harmony, 1837. 7. Jackson's Knoxville Harmony, 1838. 8. White and King's Sacred Harp, 1860. *. Adapted from Music (1984).
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Revision as of 15:26, 23 March 2017
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 at CPDL
A. LISTED BY TITLE
1. Sacred Music
- Captain Kidd
- Columbia
- Crucifixion
- Devotion
- Harpeth
- Jefferson
- Leander
- New Jerusalem
- Olney
- Separation
- Solicitude
- Versailles
2. Secular Music
B. LISTED BY FIRST LINE
Publications
- Johnson, Alexander, Compiler. 1818. Johnson's Tennessee Harmony. Cincinnati, Ohio: Morgan, Lodge, and Company. 110 pp. Second Edition, 1821. Third Edition, 1824.
Tune Name | Ed. | Missouri Harmony |
Columbian Harmony |
United States Harmony |
Southern Harmony |
Union Harmony |
Knoxville Harmony |
Sacred Harp |
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Note | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Brown's Station | 2 | |||||||
Canaan | 1 | Canaan | ||||||
Captain Kid | 1 | Captain Kid | Captain Kid | Captain Kid | Green Meadow | |||
Columbia | 1 | Columbia | Columbia | Columbia | ||||
Crucifixion | 1 | Marysville | Marysville | |||||
Devotion | 1 | Devotion | Solemnity | Devotion | Devotion | Devotion | Devotion | |
Harpeth | 1 | Harpeth | Harpeth | |||||
Jefferson | 1 | Jefferson | Jefferson | Jefferson | Jefferson | Jefferson | Jefferson | |
Leander | 1 | Leander | Leander | Leander | Leander | Leander | Leander | Leander |
Nashville | 2 | Nashville | Nashville | |||||
New Jerusalem | 1 | New Jerusalem | New Jerusalem | New Jerusalem | New Jerusalem | New Jerusalem | ||
Olney | 1 | Olney | Olney | Olney | Olney | Olney | Olney | Olney |
The Prodigal Son | 1 | The Prodigal Son | ||||||
Revival | 2 | |||||||
Separation | 1 | Separation | Separation | |||||
Solicitude | 1 | Solicitude | Solicitude | Solicitude | Solicitude | |||
Submission | 2 | |||||||
Versailles | 1 | Versailles |
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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