The Delights of Harmony, or Norfolk Compiler (Stephen Jenks)

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Title: The Delights of Harmony, or Norfolk Compiler

Full Title: The Delights of Harmony; Or, Norfolk Compiler. Being a New Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems; With a Variety of Set Pieces, from the Most Approved American and European Authors. Likewise, the Necessary Rules of Psalmody Made Easy. The Whole Particularly Designed for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies in the United States.

Editor - Composer – Compiler: Stephen Jenks

Publication date and place: 1805 by H. Mann in Dedham, Massachusetts, 95 pp. Another Edition in 1806, 96+16 pp.

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Title Year Composer Lyricist First Line Subgenre Vo. Meter
Mount Olivet 1805 Stephen Jenks Anonymous O come let us join 4 55 11. 55 11
Danville 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts Save me, O God, the swelling floods 3 86. 86 (C.M.)
Decay 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts My days are as the grass 4 66. 86 (S.M.)
New Dedham 1805 Stephen Jenks Tate and Brady Since God is all my trust 4 66. 86 (S.M.)
Weeping Nature 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts Nature, she shows her weeping eyes 4 88. 88 (L.M.)
New Suffield 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts My sorrows, like a flood 4 66. 86 (S.M.)
Sweet Farewell 1805 Stephen Jenks Anonymous Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing 3 87. 87. 87
Columbus 1805 Stephen Jenks Benjamin Beddome Let party names no more 4 66. 86 (S.M.)
Evening Shade 1805 Stephen Jenks John Leland The day is past and gone 3 66. 86 (S.M.)
Newington 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts The God of glory sends his summons forth 4 10 10. 10 10. 11 11
Sorrow's Tear 1805 Stephen Jenks Isaac Watts Sweet spirit, if thy airy sleep
4 88. 88 (L.M.)
Sweet Prospect 1805 Stephen Jenks John Newton (hymnwriter) How tedious and tasteless the hours 3 88. 88 (L.M.)
Sylvia 1805 Truman Wetmore Truman Wetmore Let music roll in mournful strains 4 88. 88. D (L.M.D.)