The Easy Instructor
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General Information
Title: The Easy Instructor
Full Title: The Easy Instructor, Or a New method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.
Editors - Compilers: William Little and William Smith
Description: The book that first introduced the four-shape note system used in Kentucky Harmony, Southern Harmony, The Sacred Harp, and many other tunebooks. Edition designations and dates from Lowens (1964) (who also gives detailed descriptions of each edition) and Temperley.
References
- Condit, Lester. 1946. Bibliographical Notes: Editions of Little & Smith's Easy Instructor. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 40(3):233-236.
- Kaufman, Charles H. 1981. Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860: A Study of Musical Activity and Musicians in New Jersey from Its First Settlement to the Civil War. East Brunswick, New Jersey: Associated Universities Presses. Article about William Smith, pp. 143-146.
- Lowens, Irving, and Allen P. Britton. 1953. "The Easy Instructor" (1798-1831): A History and Bibliography of the First Shape Note Tune Book. Journal of Research in Music Education 1(1):30-55.
- Lowens, Irving. 1964. "The Easy Instructor" (1798-1831): A History and Bibliography of the First Shape Note Tune Book. Pp. 115-137 and pp. 292-310 in: Lowens, Irving. Music and Musicians in Early America. New York, New York: W. W. Norton and Company. A considerably updated version of Lowens' 1953 paper.
- Metcalf, Frank J. 1937. "The Easy Instructor": A Bibliographical Study. The Musical Quarterly 23(1):89-97.
- Temperley, Nicholas. The Hymn Tune Index. Electronic resource from the University of Illinois. Accessed November 2021. [1]
Editions
A. Listed in Lowens (1964)
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B. At CPDL
Editions
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Works first published in The Easy Instructor
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Works at CPDL
Edition 1.2 (1803)
Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
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Brookfield | 1770 | William Billings | Isaac Watts | Psalm-tunes | 4 | |||
Morgan (William Smith (compiler)) | 1803 | William Smith (compiler) | Isaac Watts | With songs and honors sounding loud | Set pieces | 4 | 86. 86 (C.M.) | |
Oak's Creek | 1795 | Nathaniel Billings | Isaac Watts | Bless, O my soul, the living God | Psalm-tunes | 4 | 88. 88 (L.M.) | |
Olivet (William Smith (compiler)) | 1803 | William Smith (compiler) | Samson Occom | On the cold ground methinks I see | 4 | 886. 886 | ||
Suffering Savior | 1795 | Alexander Gillet | Isaac Watts | Alas, and did my Savior bleed | Set pieces | 4 | 86. 86 (C.M.) |
Edition 2 (1805)
Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
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Schenectady | 1805 | Nehemiah Shumway | Isaac Watts | From all that dwell below the skies | Set pieces | 4 | 88. 88 (L.M.) |
Edition N (1815)
Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
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New Jordan | 1815 | Nehemiah Shumway | Samuel Stennett | On Jordan's stormy banks I stand | 4 | 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) |
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