Timothy Swan
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Life
Born: 23 July 1758, Worcester, Massachusetts
Died: 23 July 1842, Northfield, Massachusetts
Biography: Timothy Swan was an American hatter, merchant, poet, and composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During the American Revolution, he was a fifer. He contributed psalm-tunes to compilations from 1783, and published his own New England Harmony in 1801.
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Timothy Swan compositions
1. Listed by Title
- Psalm-Tunes
- Appleton (Timothy Swan)
- Arnon (Timothy Swan)
- Balloon (Timothy Swan)
- Bondage (Timothy Swan)
- Boxford (Timothy Swan)
- Bristol (Timothy Swan)
- Burwick (Timothy Swan)
- Canaan (Timothy Swan)
- Canton (Timothy Swan)
- China (Timothy Swan)
- Claradon (Timothy Swan)
- Denbigh (Timothy Swan)
- Digby (Timothy Swan)
- Dover (Timothy Swan)
- Egypt (Timothy Swan)
- Energy (Timothy Swan)
- Flanders (Timothy Swan)
- Franklin (Timothy Swan)
- Government (Timothy Swan)
- Holland (Timothy Swan)
- Leghorn (Timothy Swan)
- Lisbon (Timothy Swan)
- London (Timothy Swan)
- Lutestring (Timothy Swan)
- Lyme (Timothy Swan)
- Majesty (Timothy Swan)
- Montague (Timothy Swan)
- Moreen (Timothy Swan)
- Orange (Timothy Swan)
- Patmos (Timothy Swan)
- Poland (Timothy Swan)
- Portland (Timothy Swan)
- Pownal (Timothy Swan)
- Quincy (Timothy Swan)
- Rainbow (Timothy Swan)
- Rome (Timothy Swan)
- Ronda (Timothy Swan)
- Ross (Timothy Swan)
- Russell (Timothy Swan)
- Scotland (Timothy Swan)
- Thanksgiving (Timothy Swan)
- Trinity (Timothy Swan)
- Upton (Timothy Swan)
- Vermont (Timothy Swan)
- Verona (Timothy Swan)
- Anthems and Set-Pieces
2. Listed by First Line
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Publications
- Swan, Timothy, Compiler. 1801. New England Harmony. Northampton, Massachusetts. 110 pp.
External links
References
- Bayley, Daniel. 1785. The Essex Harmony, or Musical Miscellany. Newburyport: The Author and Son. 40 pp.
- Benham, Asahel. 1790. Federal Harmony. New Haven: A. Morse. 36 pp.
- Benjamin, Jonathan. 1799. Harmonia Coelestis. Northampton: Andrew Wright. 79 pp.
- Brownson, Oliver. 1785. Select Harmony. [Hartford, Connecticut?] 84 pp.
- Brownson, Oliver. 1797. A New Collection of Sacred Harmony. [Hartford, Connecticut?] 56 pp.
- Cooke, Nym, Editor. 1997. Timothy Swan: Psalmody and secular songs. Madison, Wisconsin: American Musicological Society and A-R Editions.
- Ely, Alexander. 1792. The Baltimore Collection of Church Music. Baltimore: John Hagerty. 48 pp.
- Little, William, and William Smith. 1801. The Easy Instructor, or A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony. [Philadelphia] . 105 pp.
- Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.
- Stickney, John. 1783. The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion. Newburyport: Daniel Bayley. 160 pp.