Author: BILLINGS, William
Title: The Continental Harmony
Description: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Hans Nathan. Oblong 16mo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xix, 201pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and age toned (more so along spine). First of this edition, a facsimile of the 1794 first edition published in Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. This important song book by a figure whom Nathan calls "America's first important composer" consists of (to quote the original title page) "A Number of Anthems, Fuges, and Chorusses, in several Parts, Never Before Published." A volume in editor Howard Mumford Jones' "John Harvard Library." . Tight and nice. .

Keywords: Colonial Americana Music


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