The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion (John Stickney)
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Title: The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion
Full Title: The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion, Containing a Variety of Excellent Anthems, Tunes, Hymns, &c., Collected from the Best Authors; with a Short Explanation of the Rules of Musick: The Whole Corrected and Rendered Plain.
Editor - Compiler: John Stickney
Editions
- 1 – Published 1774 – by Daniel Bayley in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 212 pp.
- 2 – Published 1777
- 3 – Published 1783
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References
- Daniel, Ralph T. 1959. English Models for the First American Anthems. Journal of the American Musicological Society 12(1):49-58.
Works at CPDL
Edition 1 (1774)
| Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter | 1774 | William Billings | Isaac Watts | When I my inward guilt suppressed Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound |
Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 4 | 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) | |
| Machias | 1774 | James Lyon | Isaac Watts | When overwhelmed with grief | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 4 | 66. 86 (S.M.) |
Edition 3 (1783)
| Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andover | 1783 | Abraham Wood | Isaac Watts | My passions fly to seek their King | Sacred | 4 | 86. 86 (C.M.) | ||
| Montague | 1783 | Timothy Swan | Philip Doddridge | Ye sons of men with joy record | Sacred | 4 | 88. 88 (L.M.) |