Funeral Hymn (Jacob French)
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- (Posted 2018-01-31) CPDL #48617:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-01-31). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 49 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).
General Information
Title: Funeral Hymn
Composer: Jacob French
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Published in The New American Melody, 1789, p. 55. Words by an anonymous author, in The New-England Primer, starting in 1691. "For one hundred years this Primer was the schoolbook of the dissenters of America, and for another hundred, it was frequently reprinted. In the unfavorable locality (in a sectarian sense) of Philadelphia, the accounts of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall show that between 1749 and 1766, or a period of seventeen years, that firm sold thirty-seven thousand one hundred copies. Livermore stated in 1849 that within the last dozen years" 100,000 copies of modern editions . . . have been circulated ". An over conservative claim for it is to estimate an annual average sale of twenty thousand copies during a period of one hundred and fifty years, or total sales of three million copies" (Ford 1897). Jacob French may have learned to read from this book.
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