The Hesperian Harp (William Hauser)

General Information

Title: The Hesperian Harp

Full Title: The Hesperian Harp: A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes and Anthems; and Sunday-School, Infant, Revival, Temperance, Patriotic, and Moral Pieces; Containing Also a Number of Scotch, German, Irish, and other Fine Compositions. Much New Music Never Before Published, And an Exposition of the Principles of Music and of Musical Composition.

Editor - Compiler: William Hauser

Publication date and place: 1848 by S. C. Collins in Philadelphia, 556 pp. Reprinted 1874.

Description: The largest shapenote publication in the Nineteenth Century.

External Links

• Scans of pages from the 1874 reprint from Shapenote.net
• The Hesperian Harp (William Hauser) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)

References

• Patterson, Daniel W. 1988. William Hauser's Hesperian Harp and Olive Leaf: Shape-Note Tunebooks as Emblems of Change and Progress. Journal of American Folklore 101(399):23-36.