The Easy Instructor
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Title: The Easy Instructor
Full Title: The Easy Instructor, Or a New method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.
Editors - Compilers: William Little and William Smith
Publication date and place: 1801 by unknown publisher in Philadelphia, 105 pp. Part 2 1803, 64 pp. by William Smith and Company in Hopewell, New Jersey. Second Edition 1805, 108 pp. by Webster and Steele in Albany, New York. Further editions in 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, and 1819.
Description: The book that first introduced the four-shape note system used in Kentucky Harmony, Southern Harmony, The Sacred Harp, and many other tunebooks.
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Brookfield |- |Brookfield |align=right| |William Billings | |Isaac Watts | |Psalm-tunes |align=right|4 | Morgan (William Smith (compiler)) |- |Morgan (William Smith (compiler)) |align=right| |William Smith (compiler) | |Isaac Watts |With songs and honors sounding loud |Set pieces |align=right|4 |86. 86 (C.M.) New Jordan |- |New Jordan |align=right| |Nehemiah Shumway | |Samuel Stennett |On Jordan's stormy banks I stand | |align=right|4 |86. 86. D (C.M.D.) Oak's Creek |- |Oak's Creek |align=right| |Nathaniel Billings | |Isaac Watts |Bless, O my soul, the living God |Psalm-tunes |align=right|4 |88. 88 (L.M.) Olivet (William Smith (compiler)) |- |Olivet (William Smith (compiler)) |align=right| |William Smith (compiler) | |Samson Occom |On the cold ground methinks I see | |align=right|4 |886. 886 Schenectady |- |Schenectady |align=right| |Nehemiah Shumway | |Isaac Watts |From all that dwell below the skies |Set pieces |align=right|4 |88. 88 (L.M.) Suffering Savior |- |Suffering Savior |align=right| |Alexander Gillet | |Isaac Watts |Alas, and did my Savior bleed |Set pieces |align=right|4 |86. 86 (C.M.)