Johnson's Tennessee Harmony (Alexander Johnson)

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.

References

• Hatchett, Marion J. 1995. Early East-Tennessee Shape-Note Tunebooks. The Hymn 46(3):28-46.
• Johnson, Alexander, Compiler. 1818. Johnson's Tennessee Harmony. Cincinnati, Ohio: Morgan, Lodge, and Company. 110 pp. Second Edition, 1821. Third Edition, 1824.
• Music, David W. 1984. Alexander Johnson and the Tennessee Harmony. Current Musicology 37/38:59-73.

Works at CPDL

Captain Kidd |- |Captain Kidd |align=right| |Jeremiah Ingalls |Alexander Johnson |Anonymous |Through all this world below | |align=right|4 |66. 63. 66. 66. 63 Columbia |- |Columbia |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Timothy Dwight |As down a lone valley with cedars o'erspread |

|align=right|3 |11 11. 11 11 Crucifixion |- |Crucifixion |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |John Cennick |Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone | |align=right|4 |88. 88 (L.M.) Devotion |- |Devotion |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Isaac Watts |Sweet is the day of sacred rest | |align=right|3 |88. 88 (L.M.) Harpeth |- |Harpeth |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |John Newton (hymnwriter) |How tedious and tasteless the hours | |align=right|3 |88. 88. D (L.M.D.) Jefferson |- |Jefferson |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |John Newton (hymnwriter) |Glorious things of thee are spoken | |align=right|3 |87. 87. D Kedron |- |Kedron |align=right| |Amos Pilsbury | |Charles Wesley |Thou man of griefs, remember me | |align=right|4 |88. 88 (L.M.) Leander |- |Leander |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Isaac Watts |My soul forsakes her vain delight | |align=right|3 |86. 86 (C.M.) New Jerusalem |- |New Jerusalem |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Benjamin Francis |My gracious redeemer I'll love | |align=right|4 |88. 88. D (L.M.D.) Olney |- |Olney |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Robert Robinson |Come, thou fount of every blessing | |align=right|4 |87. 87. D Separation |- |Separation |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Isaac Watts |Why do we mourn departing friends | |align=right|3 |86. 86 (C.M.) Solicitude |- |Solicitude |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |Anonymous |O how I have longed for the coming of God | |align=right|4 |11 11. 11 11 Versailles |- |Versailles |align=right| |Alexander Johnson | |John Stocker |Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song | |align=right|3 |11 11. 11 11