Kentucky Harmony (Ananias Davisson)

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General Information

Short Title: Kentucky Harmony

Full Title: Kentucky Harmony: Or, a Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems, in Three Parts, Taken from the Most Eminent Authors, and Well Adapted to Christian Churches, Singing Schools, or Private Societies.

Editor - Composer: Ananias Davisson

Publication date and place: 1816 by Ananias Davisson in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 140 pp.
Second Edition 1817, 159 pp. Third Edition 1819, 159 pp. Fourth Edition 1820. Fifth Edition 1826, 160 pp.

Description: This book, along with its companion volume, Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony in 1820, had a large influence on music in the American West and South¹ of that day. Davisson's arrangements and original compositions were reprinted or revised in almost all following books of the West and South, including

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¹. The West and South included Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, western Virginia (now West Virginia), Ohio, western Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.

External Links

References

  • Music, David W. 1983. Ananias Davisson, Robert Boyd, Reubin Monday, John Martin, and Archibald Rhea in East Tennessee, 1816-26. American Music 1(3):72-84.

Works at CPDL

Albion |- |Albion |align=right| |Robert Boyd | |Isaac Watts |Come, ye that love the Lord |66. 86 (S.M.) |align=right|4 Bethel |- |Bethel |align=right| |Anonymous | |Isaac Watts |Let Zion and her sons rejoice |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Condescending |- |Condescending |align=right| |Anonymous |Ananias Davisson |Isaac Watts |How condescending and how kind |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Glasgow |- |Glasgow |align=right| |Elkanah Dare | |Isaac Watts |This life's a dream, an empty show |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Idumea |- |Idumea |align=right| |Ananias Davisson | |Isaac Watts |My God, my life, my love |66. 86 (S.M.) |align=right|4 Kedron |- |Kedron |align=right| |Amos Pilsbury | |Charles Wesley |Thou man of griefs, remember me |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Liberty Hall |- |Liberty Hall |align=right| |Lucius Chapin | |Isaac Watts |Alas! And did my Savior bleed |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|3 Messiah (1813) |- |Messiah (1813) |align=right| |Anonymous | |John Granade |The Son of man they did betray |88. 86. 88. 886 |align=right|2 Milinda |- |Milinda |align=right| |Robert Boyd | |Isaac Watts |In vain the wealthy mortals toil |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Mount Calvary |- |Mount Calvary |align=right| | |Ananias Davisson |John Granade |The Son of Man they did betray |88. 86. 88. 886 |align=right|4 New Monmouth |- |New Monmouth |align=right| |Lucius Chapin | |Robert Robinson |Come thou fount of every blessing |87. 87 |align=right|4 New Orleans |- |New Orleans |align=right| |Robert Boyd | |Isaac Watts |Why do we mourn departing friends |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Ninety-Fifth |- |Ninety-Fifth |align=right| |Lucius Chapin | |Isaac Watts |When I can read my title clear |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Pisgah |- |Pisgah |align=right| |James C. Lowry | |Isaac Watts |When I can read my title clear |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Reflection |- |Reflection |align=right| |Anonymous |Ananias Davisson |Isaac Watts |No sleep or slumber to his eyes |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Rochester |- |Rochester |align=right| |Israel Holdroyd |Ananias Davisson |Isaac Watts |Come, children, learn to fear the Lord |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Rockbridge |- |Rockbridge |align=right| |Lucius Chapin | |Isaac Watts |Sweet is the work, my God, my King |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Salvation |- |Salvation |align=right| |Robert Boyd | |Edmund Jones |Come, humble sinner, in whose breast |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4 Solemnity |- |Solemnity |align=right| |Ananias Davisson | |Isaac Watts |Twas on that dark, that doleful night |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Solitude in the Grove |- |Solitude in the Grove |align=right| |Ananias Davisson | |Isaac Watts |O were I like a feathered dove |86. 86. D (C.M.D.) |align=right|4 Sounding Joy |- |Sounding Joy |align=right| |Justin Morgan | |Isaac Watts |Come, sound his praise abroad |66. 86 (S.M.) |align=right|4 Tender Thought |- |Tender Thought |align=right| |Ananias Davisson | |Philip Doddridge |Arise, my tenderest thoughts, arise |88. 88 (L.M.) |align=right|4 Tranquility |- |Tranquility |align=right| |Reubin Monday | |Isaac Watts |My God, the spring of all my joys |86. 86 (C.M.) |align=right|4

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