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sNym Cooke's American Harmony is a welcome, if limited, contribution to the growing list of new collections of historical sacred vocal music featuring the four-shape notation system first introduced in The Easy Instructor (1801), and known today thanks to the continued popularity of The Sacred Harp (1844).1 Long in the making, Cooke's collection is at once a tunebook, an anthological edition, and a reference resource; a source of historically significant and delightfully singable music from late eighteenth-century New England and beyond with detailed information on its composers and their world. American Harmony will prove indispensable to those interested in the histories of New England psalmodists and useful to those looking for enjoyable selections from this repertoire.sThe contents and organization of American Harmony illustrate its strengths, unusual form, and indebtedness to its compiler's tastes. Comprised of two oversize paperback oblong volumes held in a slipcase, the collection includes 176 musical selections, along with illustrations, notes, biographical entries, and indices. When Cooke embarked on this project more than three decades ago, he imagined titling the work Lexington Harmony, after his hometown in eastern Massachusetts, and later considered New England Harmony as a title. Volume 1 represents the promise of this earlier
Journal of the Society for American Music – Cambridge University Press
Published: May 1, 2022
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