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Waters' choral harp : a new and superior collection of choice hymns and tunes, mostly new : written and composed for Sunday schools, missionary, revival and social meetings, and for church worship / edited by Horace Waters ...

Title
Waters' choral harp : a new and superior collection of choice hymns and tunes, mostly new : written and composed for Sunday schools, missionary, revival and social meetings, and for church worship / edited by Horace Waters ...
Author
Waters, Horace, 1812-1893.
Publication
New York : Published by Horace Waters, No. 481 Broadway, 1863

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Additional Authors
  • Kemp, Nathaniel P., 1814 or 1815-1878,
  • Tuttle, Eng. N.,
  • Warren, Charles W., active 1844-1873.
Description
158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 13 x 16 cm
Alternative Title
Choral harp
Subject
  • Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)
  • Doxologies
  • Duets
  • Gospel music
  • Hymns, English > United States > 19th century
  • National songs > United States
  • Revival hymns
  • Solos with piano
  • Sunday school music
  • Vocal quartets
Note
  • "Entered according to act of congress ... 1863 ..."--T.p. verso.
  • "Warren, Music Stereotyper rear 43 Centre Street"--t.p. verso.
  • ca. 198 hymns, ca. 105 with music (showing tune-name and meter only) [close, piano and vocal score, short title header at text : Waters' choral harp] (indicating author or origin, composer or source, musical arrangement, situation, dedication or cited scripture)--p. [3]-158.
  • Includes index : ... to the first lines and music--[2] p. at end (followed by publisher's advertisements).
  • " ... large proportion of the Music and Poetry in this book ... written, composed, and arranged, expressly for it ..."--Preface [Notice] t.p. verso.
  • Yellow paperboard covers ["yellow-back" edition] ; imitation red morocco spine. Front cover title "Waters' Choral Harp For Sunday Schools" with design of children singing from "Choral Harp" in garden, inset of man standing in parlor, playing harp, with "Choral Harp" before him [encircling scripture quotation : "And I heard the voice of the harpers harping with their harps and they sung as it were a new song"]--signed "Tuttle. Eng. N.," with book-producer's statment "N.P. Kemp, 40 Cornhil. l, Boston, Mass." Back cover advertisements by publisher and by Alexandre for organs, melodeons, pianos.
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Columbia University Libraries