Johnson's Tennessee Harmony (Alexander Johnson)
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General Information
Title: Johnson's Tennessee Harmony
Editor - Compiler: Alexander Johnson
Publication date and place: 1818 by Morgan, Lodge, and Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 110 pp. Second Edition, 1821. Third Edition, 1824.
Description: The first shapenote music book from middle Tennessee.
External Links
References
- Hatchett, Marion J. 1995. Early East-Tennessee Shape-Note Tunebooks. The Hymn 46(3):28-46.
- Music, David W. 1984. Alexander Johnson and the Tennessee Harmony. Current Musicology 37/38:59-73.
Works at CPDL
Title | Year | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | First Line | Subgenre | Vo. | Meter |
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Captain Kidd | 1818 | Jeremiah Ingalls | Alexander Johnson | Anonymous | Through all this world below | 4 | 66. 63. 66. 66. 63 | |
Columbia | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Timothy Dwight | As down a lone valley with cedars o'erspread | 3 | 11 11. 11 11 | ||
Crucifixion | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | John Cennick | Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone | 4 | 88. 88 (L.M.) | ||
Devotion | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Isaac Watts | Sweet is the day of sacred rest | 3 | 88. 88 (L.M.) | ||
Harpeth | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | John Newton (hymnwriter) | How tedious and tasteless the hours | 3 | 88. 88. D (L.M.D.) | ||
Jefferson | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | John Newton (hymnwriter) | Glorious things of thee are spoken | 3 | 87. 87. D | ||
Kedron | 1799 | Amos Pilsbury | Charles Wesley | Thou man of griefs, remember me | 4 | 88. 88 (L.M.) | ||
Leander | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Isaac Watts | My soul forsakes her vain delight | 3 | 86. 86 (C.M.) | ||
New Jerusalem | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Benjamin Francis | My gracious redeemer I'll love | 4 | 88. 88. D (L.M.D.) | ||
Olney | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Robert Robinson | Come, thou fount of every blessing | 4 | 87. 87. D | ||
Separation | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Isaac Watts | Why do we mourn departing friends | 3 | 86. 86 (C.M.) | ||
Solicitude | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | Anonymous | O how I have longed for the coming of God | 4 | 11 11. 11 11 | ||
Versailles | 1818 | Alexander Johnson | John Stocker | Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song | 3 | 11 11. 11 11 |