Amos Pilsbury
Life
Born: 15 October 1772, Newbury, Massachusetts
Died: 19 October 1812, Charleston, South Carolina
Biography
Amos Pilsbury was a silversmith, schoolteacher, and a clerk in the Presbyterian Church. In 1799 he compiled United States Sacred Harmony. David Music (1995) found that Pilsbury's influence was significant on early nineteenth century music, especially on such works as Wyeth's Repository, Kentucky Harmony, Tennessee Harmony, and Western Harmony. It also had a influence on William Walker's Southern Harmony (1835) and The Sacred Harp (1844). There is no Wikipedia page yet.
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List of all choral works (all written for four voices, published in 1799)
HTI* | Title | Meter | Key | Comment |
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7873 | Autumn | 6.6.7.7.7.7 | f | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. |
7874 | Cambridge | 6.6.8.6.6.8.0 | a | |
7875 | Canaan | 7.7.4.4.7.0 | A | |
7876a | Charleston | 8.7.8.7 | F | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Charlestown in Carden's Western Harmony (1825), Southern Harmony (1835), and The Sacred Harp (1844). Bartimaeus in Hesperian Harp (1948). |
7878 | Dartmouth | 6.6.6.6.6.6 | e | |
7879 | Dover | 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 | b | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Later Pilgrim (James P. Carrell), (1821), and Child of Grace in The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 77a. |
7880 | Edson | 8.6.10.8.0 | e | |
7881 | Franklin | 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6.0 | d | |
7883 | Hadley | 8.7.8.7.0 | d | |
7884 | Hamburgh | 7.7.4.4.7.0 | a | |
7886 | Haverhill | 7.7.7.7.8.8 | D | |
7887 | Judea | 6.6.6.6.8.8 | G | |
7888a | Kedron | 8.8.8.8 | e | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Southern Harmony (1835), p. 3; The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 48. |
7889a | Kingston | 8.7.8.7.4.0.7 | a | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. |
7890 | Madison | 6.6.6.0.6 | a | |
7891 | Massachusetts | 6.6.8.6.6.6.8.6.0.0.0 | b | |
7892 | Middlesex | 8.7.8.7.7.7.0 | F | |
7893 | Moment's Thought | 6.6.8.6 | B♭ | |
7894 | Morning | 8.8.8.8 | e | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. |
7895 | Mount Calvary | 6.8.6.8.4.4.6.4.4.6 | b | |
7896 | Mount Moriah | 6.6.6.6.8.8 | e | |
7898 | New Hampshire | 8.8.8.8.8.8.0.0.0.8.8 | E | |
7899 | Orangeburgh | 8.8.6.6.8.8.6.6 | a | |
7901 | Pinckney-Street | 8.8.7.8.8.7 | g | |
7903 | Potomack | 6.6.6.6.6.6.6.0.6.6 | G | |
7905 | Rhode Island | 8.8.6.8.8.6 | c | Attributed to Pilsbury by David Music. Also in Southern Harmony (1835), p. 145, and The Sacred Harp (1844), p. 70. |
7906 | Rockingham | 8.3.3.6.0 | b | |
7907 | Salem | 7.7.0.7.7.0 | a | |
7908 | South-Carolina | 7.6.7.6.0 | D | |
7909 | Trenton | 6.6.6.6.0 | e |
Publications
- Pilsbury, Amos. 1799. The United States’ Sacred Harmony. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 224 pp.
References
- Music, David W. 1995. Seven "New" Tunes in Amos Pilsbury's United States' Sacred Harmony (1799) and Their Use in Four-Shape Shape-Note Tunebooks of the Southern United States before 1860. American Music 13(4):403-447.