Timothy Swan

Life

Born: 23 July 1758, Worcester, Massachusetts

Died: 23 July 1842, Northfield, Massachusetts

Biography: Timothy Swan was an American hatter, merchant, poet, and composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During the American Revolution, he was a fifer. He contributed psalm-tunes to compilations from 1783, and published his own New England Harmony in 1801.

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List of choral works

1. Listed by Title

Psalm-Tunes

Appleton Arnon Balloon Bondage Boxford Bristol Burwick

Canaan Canton China Claradon Denbigh Digby Dover

Egypt Energy Flanders Franklin Government Holland Leghorn

Lisbon London Lutestring Lyme Majesty Montague Moreen

Orange Patmos Poland Portland Pownal Quincy Rainbow

Rome Ronda Ross Russell Scotland Thanksgiving Trinity

Upton Vermont Verona

Anthems

Calvary Dedication Anthem Judgment

Let the shrill trumpet's warlike sound The Seasons Solomon's Song

2. Listed by First Line

As pants the hart for cooling streams Behold, I fall before Thy face God of my life, look gently down Great God, whose universal sway He called for darkness, darkness came He framed the globe, He built the sky

Methinks I hear the heavens resound My Savior and my King My sorrows, like a flood My soul, thy great Creator praise Rejoice, ye shining worlds on high Return, O God of love, return

The lofty pillars of the sky Tis by thy strength the mountains stand Wandering pilgrims, mourning Christians When marching to thy blest abode Why do we mourn departing friends Ye sons of men with joy, record

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Publications

• Swan, Timothy, Compiler. 1802. New England Harmony. Northampton, Massachusetts. 110 pp.

External links

• Biography at the Suffield Library
• Swan 1802 at IMSLP

References

• Cooke, Nym, Editor. 1997. Timothy Swan: Psalmody and secular songs. Madison, Wisconsin: American Musicological Society and A-R Editions.
• Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.