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*[[Caelestis (Jacob French)|Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings]] | *[[Caelestis (Jacob French)|Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings]] | ||
*[[Supplication (Jacob French)|Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive]] | *[[Supplication (Jacob French)|Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive]] | ||
*[[Terror (Jacob French)|Silent I waited with long-suffering love]] | *[[Terror (Jacob French)|Silent I waited with long-suffering love]] |
Revision as of 12:37, 4 June 2018
Life
Born: 15 July 1754, Stoughton, Massachusetts
Died: May 1817, Simsbury, Connecticut
Biography
Jacob French was an American composer, singing master, farmer, and compiler of music books in the last half of the eighteenth century, and shortly into the nineteenth. In 1774 he attended a singing school taught by William Billings in Stoughton. He served several times in the Continental Army between 1775 and 1781. He apparently was a singing school master in several towns in Massachusetts during the last part of the century. He was the compiler of three tune books, and many of his songs were printed by other compilers.
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Jacob French compositions
LISTED BY TITLE
1. Psalm-Tunes
- Abyssinia (Jacob French)
- Aspiration (Jacob French)
- Association (Jacob French)
- Athens (Jacob French)
- Attention (Jacob French)
- Babylon (Jacob French)
- Baggaduce (Jacob French)
- Beauty (Jacob French)
- Berwick (Jacob French)
- Bethany (Jacob French)
- Buxton (Jacob French)
- Caelestis (Jacob French)
- Carolina (Jacob French)
- Castile (Jacob French)
- Castle Island (Jacob French)
- China (Jacob French)
- Colchester (Jacob French)
- Connecticut (Jacob French)
- Coventry (Jacob French)
- Creation (Jacob French)
- Dauphin (Jacob French)
- Declaration (Jacob French)
- Delley (Jacob French)
- Dissolution (Jacob French)
- Dormant (Jacob French)
- Fairhaven (Jacob French)
- Farmington (Jacob French)
- Farnum (Jacob French)
- Funeral Hymn (Jacob French)
- Hollowall (Jacob French)
- Italy (Jacob French)
- Jerusalem (Jacob French)
- Massachusetts (Jacob French)
- Messiah (Jacob French)
- Middlesex (Jacob French)
- Minden (Jacob French)
- Monmouth (Jacob French)
- Northampton (Jacob French)
- Oakhampton (Jacob French)
- Ohio (Jacob French)
- Persepolis (Jacob French)
- Persia (Jacob French)
- Pilgrim's Farewell (Jacob French)
- Preparation (Jacob French)
- Providence (Jacob French)
- Queensborough (Jacob French)
- Resolution (Jacob French)
- Resurrection (Jacob French)
- Russell (Jacob French)
- Sunderland (Jacob French)
- Syena (Jacob French)
- Terror (Jacob French)
- Vanity (Jacob French)
- Venice (Jacob French)
2. Anthems
- An Anthem for Ordination (Jacob French)
- Dedication Anthem (Jacob French)
- The Fall of Babylon (Jacob French)
- Farewell (Jacob French)
- The Heavenly Vision (Jacob French)
- Lamentation for Jerusalem (Jacob French)
- Rebellion (Jacob French)
- Righteous art thou, O Lord (Jacob French)
- Thanksgiving Anthem (Jacob French)
3. Set pieces
- Annapolis (Jacob French)
- Ascension (Jacob French)
- Babel (Jacob French)
- Belgorod (Jacob French)
- Bellingham (Jacob French)
- Christianity (Jacob French)
- Communion (Jacob French)
- Conviction (Jacob French)
- Devotion (Jacob French)
- Eastford (Jacob French)
- Exhortation (Jacob French)
- Gratitude (Jacob French)
- Inspiration (Jacob French)
- Lamentation (Jacob French)
- Merrifield (Jacob French)
- Mount Vernon (Jacob French)
- North Bolton (Jacob French)
- Pawtuxet (Jacob French)
- Philadelphia New (Jacob French)
- Proclamation (Jacob French)
- Reception (Jacob French)
- Relley (Jacob French)
- The Sabbath (Jacob French)
- Supplication (Jacob French)
- Winthrop (Jacob French)
4. Secular Songs
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Publications
- French. Jacob. 1789. The New American Melody. Boston: John Norman. 100 pp.
- French, Jacob. 1793. The Psalmodist's Companion. Worcester, Massachusetts: Leonard Worcester and Isaiah Thomas.
- French, Jacob. 1802. Harmony of Harmony. Northampton, Massachusetts: Andrew Wright.
References
- Britton, Allen P.; Irving Lowens; and Richard Crawford. 1990. American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography. Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society. 798 pp.
- Jones, Daniel C. L. 1998. Jacob French (1754-1817): The Collected Works. New York, New York: Garland Publishing. 331 pp.
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