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Daniel Read. Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony. Edited by Karl and Marie Kroeger. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2004. (Recent Researches in American Music, 48-50.) [Part 1: Acknowledgments, p. ix; introd., p. xi-xxi; 4 plates, 2 p.; Read's preliminary sections, p. 1-32; score (tunes 1-124), p. 33-196; crit. report, p. 197-211. ISBN 0-89579-560-1. $98. Part 2: Acknowledgments, p. ix; score (tunes 125-276), 197 p.; crit. report, p. 199-215. ISBN 0-89579-561-8. $98. Part 3: Acknowledgments, p. ix; score (tunes 277-405), 210 p.; crit. report, p. 211-27; indexes, p. 229-56. ISBN 0-89579-562-0. $98.]
Daniel Read (1757-1836) is familiar to students of early American psalmody as second in importance only to William Billings (1746-1800), and during his lifetime, was in fact more popular than the one-eyed Boston tanner. More of his tunes (nine) found their way among the 101 tunes constituting The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody (ed. Richard Crawford, Recent Researches in American Music, 11-12 [Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1984])--the most commonly published pieces in American sacred tunebooks between 1698 and 1810--than those by any other composer. Following Read's own claims, scholars have frequently asserted that, while Read was a master of the vigorous eighteenth-century New England style, he changed his approach to musical composition dramatically in later years in favor of one deemed more European, or "scientific." In 1995, A-R Editions jointly published Karl Kroeger's edition of Read's earlier music (entitled Collected Works), as volume 24 of Recent Researches in American Music and as the fourth volume of Music in the United States of America (reviewed by Edward C. Wolf in Notes 53, no. 4 [June 1997]: 1328-30). It now follows with a three-volume edition of Read's hitherto unpublished Musica...
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