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*[[Poland (Timothy Swan)|God of my life, look gently down]] | *[[Poland (Timothy Swan)|God of my life, look gently down]] | ||
*[[Flanders (Timothy Swan)|Great God, whose universal sway]] | *[[Flanders (Timothy Swan)|Great God, whose universal sway]] | ||
*[[Egypt (Timothy Swan)|He called for darkness, darkness came]] | |||
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*[[Majesty (Timothy Swan)|He framed the globe, He built the sky]] | *[[Majesty (Timothy Swan)|He framed the globe, He built the sky]] | ||
*[[Franklin (Timothy Swan)|Hosanna to Jesus on high]] | *[[Franklin (Timothy Swan)|Hosanna to Jesus on high]] | ||
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*[[Boxford (Timothy Swan)|My sorrows, like a flood]] | *[[Boxford (Timothy Swan)|My sorrows, like a flood]] | ||
*[[Dover (Timothy Swan)|My soul, thy great Creator praise]] | *[[Dover (Timothy Swan)|My soul, thy great Creator praise]] | ||
*[[Appleton (Timothy Swan)|Now to the Lord a noble song]] | *[[Appleton (Timothy Swan)|Now to the Lord a noble song]] | ||
*[[Claradon (Timothy Swan)|O come let us join]] | *[[Claradon (Timothy Swan)|O come let us join]] | ||
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*[[Moreen (Timothy Swan)|Oft I am told the muse will prove]] | *[[Moreen (Timothy Swan)|Oft I am told the muse will prove]] | ||
*[[Russell (Timothy Swan)|Our days are as the grass]] | *[[Russell (Timothy Swan)|Our days are as the grass]] | ||
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*[[Bristol (Timothy Swan)|The lofty pillars of the sky]] | *[[Bristol (Timothy Swan)|The lofty pillars of the sky]] | ||
*[[Government (Timothy Swan)|The Lord Jehovah reigns]] | *[[Government (Timothy Swan)|The Lord Jehovah reigns]] | ||
*[[Scotland (Timothy Swan)|The Lord my Shepherd is]] | *[[Scotland (Timothy Swan)|The Lord my Shepherd is]] | ||
*[[Dedication Anthem (Timothy Swan)|The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice]] | *[[Dedication Anthem (Timothy Swan)|The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice]] | ||
*[[Solomon's Song (Timothy Swan)|The voice of my beloved sounds]] | |||
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*[[Patmos (Timothy Swan)|Think, mighty God, on feeble man]] | *[[Patmos (Timothy Swan)|Think, mighty God, on feeble man]] | ||
*[[Rainbow (Timothy Swan)|Tis by thy strength the mountains stand]] | *[[Rainbow (Timothy Swan)|Tis by thy strength the mountains stand]] | ||
Revision as of 05:14, 8 January 2017
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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NOTE. New works added to this page should be automatically placed in the correct position below. Listing by First Line should be added manually.
List of choral works
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.