Eliakim Doolittle

Life

Born: 29 August 1772, Cheshire, Connecticut

Died: April 1850, Argyle, New York

Biography Eliakim Doolittle was a schoolteacher, singing master, and composer. He lived in Hampton, New York, and Pawlet, Vermont. His older brother Amos was a famous engraver and tunebook publisher.

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List of choral works

LISTED BY TITLE

Psalm-tunes

• Exhortation
• Jefferson
• Solemnity
• St. John's

Anthems and Set-Pieces No works currently available

LISTED BY FIRST LINE

• I'll search the land, and raise the just
• Thrice happy man who fears the Lord

 
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Publications

• Doolittle, Eliakim. 1806. The Psalm Singer's Companion. New Haven, Connecticut: Author. 48 pp.

References

• Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.