Die Allgemein Nützliche Choral-Music [Universally Useful Choral-Music].

• imprint_number: 1816.082
• title: Die allgemein nützliche choral-music. Enthaltend: auserlesene melodien, welche bey allen religions verfassungen gebräuchlich sind. Auf zwey stimmen gesetzt. Begleitet, mit einer vorrede, über die music, oder tonkunst; und mit einer, zum grunde der vocal-music vollständigen einleitung. Eingerichtet zum gebrauch des öffentlichen Gottesdienstes, sing-schulen und privat-uebungen. Verfasset von Joseph Funk.
• sequence_number: 82
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Harrisonburg
• issuing_press: Lawrence Wartmann
• author: Funk, Joseph (1778-1862).
• notes: First music-publishing effort made by Funk, the legendary shape-note singing master; title shares four tunes with Ananias Davisson's Kentucky Harmony (1816.084), also published in Harrisonburg about the same time as this album, though targeting English-speakers rather than the German-speakers served by Funk's offering. Both were stylistically challenged the following year by Wheeler Gillet's Virginia Sacred Minstrel (1817.096), which sought to turn church music from the fugue-influenced tunes of Funk & Davisson to more melodious ones.
  
  
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