The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion (John Stickney)

General Information

Title: The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion

Full Title: The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion, Containing a Variety of Excellent Anthems, Tunes, Hymns, &c., Collected from the Best Authors; with a Short Explanation of the Rules of Musick: The Whole Corrected and Rendered Plain.

Editor - Compiler: John Stickney

Publications using VolumesEditions

1 – Published 1774 – by Daniel Bayley in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 212 pp.

2 – Published 1777

3 – Published 1783

Description:

External websites:

• Scan at Archive.org – Uncertain which edition: 187 works, 210 pp.

References

• Daniel, Ralph T. 1959. English Models for the First American Anthems. Journal of the American Musicological Society 12(1):49-58.

Works at CPDL

Edition 1 (1774)

Title	Year	Composer	Arranger	Lyricist	First Line	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Meter
Exeter	1774	William Billings		Isaac Watts	When I my inward guilt suppressed Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound	Sacred	Psalm-tunes	4	86. 86. D (C.M.D.)
Machias	1774	James Lyon		Isaac Watts	When overwhelmed with grief	Sacred	Psalm-tunes	4	66. 86 (S.M.)

Edition 3 (1783)

Title	Year	Composer	Arranger	Lyricist	First Line	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Meter
Andover	1783	Abraham Wood		Isaac Watts	My passions fly to seek their King	Sacred		4	86. 86 (C.M.)
Montague	1783	Timothy Swan		Philip Doddridge	Ye sons of men with joy record	Sacred		4	88. 88 (L.M.)