Urania, or, A choice collection of psalm-tunes, anthems, and hymns : from the most approv'd authors, with some entirely new : in two, three, and four parts, the whole peculiarly adapted to the use of churches and private families : to which are prefix'd the plainest & most necessary rules of Psalmody / by James Lyon ...

Record ID: 
113733
Title: 
Urania, or, A choice collection of psalm-tunes, anthems, and hymns : from the most approv'd authors, with some entirely new : in two, three, and four parts, the whole peculiarly adapted to the use of churches and private families : to which are prefix'd the plainest & most necessary rules of Psalmody / by James Lyon ...
Published: 
[New York? : s.n., 1773?]
Notes: 

The psalm tunes are without words.
"Hen[.] Dawkins fecit--1761 Philad[elphi]a."
T.p.: p. [1]; "The index": p. [3]; "Explanation of the gamut": p. [5]-[6]; "Of time, or, The duration of sounds in music": p. [7]-[12]; music: p. 1-192.
Third issue; incomplete, lacking the dedication, list of subscribers, 4 pages of the rudiments and instructions, and the last 6 pages of the music. Britton, Lowens, and Crawford, Table 14 (p. 446), Issue III (and p. 448, State III), which Sonneck 1905 assigned conjecturally to New York, 1773.
Includes the song Whitefield's (beginning "Come Thou Almighty King"), with the melody of God save the King: p. 190-191.

Associated names: 

Lyon, James, 1735-1794, editor.

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