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Creator: Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895 Date: 1870 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Publisher Root & Cady issued The Prize in response to a call for Sunday school materials to complement the weekly lesson topics announced in the interdenominational periodical National Sunday School Teacher. Root biographer P. H. Carder attributes the call to a young Dwight L. Moody, who later ro... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Lloyd, Benjamin, 1804-1860 Date: 1857 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: First published in 1841, Primitive Hymns was the earliest hymnal created specifically for Primitive Baptist use. Still popular among white and black Primitive Baptist communities, this volume is an enduring testament to a singing practice associated with words-only hymnals but spanning both print... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hauser, William, 1812-1880 Date: 1848 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Hesperian Harp is one of two tunebooks compiled by William Hauser (1812–1880). One of eleven children born into an east Georgia yeoman farming family, Hauser attended local singing schools, was ordained as a Methodist preacher, and ascended into the professional class where he worked as physi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Faculty of the Eureka Normal School of Music Date: 1903 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Eureka Publishing Company provided gospel music to the Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas region where the seven-shape notation system was widely adopted by the mid-1880s. This volume is an early version of the gospel annual. It retains rudiments from its oblong predecessors, rendering it suitable... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Doane, W. Howard (William Howard), 1832-1915 Date: 1883 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor William Howard Doane (1832–1915) enjoyed collaborations with prominent hymnodists and composers like Fanny Crosby and Robert Lowry, navigating a distinguished publishing career with Baptist denominational outlets and major houses in New York City and Philadelphia before settling in the Ohi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Shelton, T. J., 1849–1929 and Rosecrans, J. H. (James Holmes), 1845-1926 Date: 1876 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The preface of Polished Pearls identifies congregations unable to afford full-length hymnals as the volume’s primary audience. This target group likely included the Restorationist church pastored by compiler T. J. Shelton (1849–1929) in Arcola, Illinois. Collaborating with Ohio Valley church musi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Reinbarger, C. C., Wallin, Henry B., Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959, Messer, L. C., Petticord, E. W. (Emory W.), 1880-, Wells, Kenneth, Reep, George D., Corlett, D. S., Aycock, Jarrette E., and Moore, John E. Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: New Songs of the Old Faith features new compositions, “favorite hymns,” and gospel songs popular at its date of publication. Edited by Norwegian American composer Haldor Lillenas (1885–1959), the volume has ties to the Church of the Nazarene, an offshoot of the nineteenth-century Holiness movemen... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Loughridge, R. M. (Robert McGill), 1809-1900 and Winslett, David, -1862 Date: 1851 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Prepared by Muskogee convert David Winslett (?–1862) and Anglo-American missionary R. M. Loughridge (1809–1900), Nakcokv Esyvhiketv was the first full-length hymnal published in the Muskogee (Creek) language. In addition to translations of well-known English hymns, this words-only volume includes... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Kennedy, R. Emmet (Robert Emmet), 1877-1941 and Persons, Simmons Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Writer and collector Robert Emmett Kennedy (1877–1941) built a career reproducing the black music and storytelling traditions he encountered in his hometown of Gretna, Louisiana, for white audiences. A first-generation Irish American pianist and vocalist, Kennedy’s 1924 Black Cameos was his first... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Date: 1875 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: With the 1873 installation of Bishop John C. Keener in Mexico City, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was eager to expand its influence. Intended for use by a growing lay Methodist community, Himnos para uso de la Iglesia Metodista del sur combined newly written hymns with Spanish-language se... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit