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Creator: Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk) Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Benjamin Burke Beall (1874–1945) began publishing gospel songbooks like the successful Joyful Lays series in 1900. When this compilation emerged in 1907, Beall likely envisioned it as the anchor for another series. However, no further issues were printed after Beall dissolved his Douglassv... 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: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 and Work, John W., 1873-1925 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Robinson, K. C., Showalter, A. J. (Anthony Johnson), 1858-1924, Patton, J. D. (John Daniel), 1868-, Mosely, T. B., Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk), Morris, W. J., and Eagle, H. M. Date: 1915 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Gospel Glory is the 1915 joint offering of A. J. Showalter & Company of Dalton, Georgia, and its affiliates Showalter-Patton Company in Dallas, Texas, and Perry Brothers Music Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The volume’s composition is representative of the convention book publishing practices... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Acuff, J. W. (James W.), 1864–1937 and Evridge, W. D. (William D.), 1873–1932 Date: 1909 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Waco-based Trio Music Company was a vital training ground for Texas gospel teachers and composers from 1895 to 1925, although it began losing contributors to Austin-based competitor Firm Foundations in the 1910s. Both publishing companies catered to the region’s Restorationist movement and it... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hall, J. H. (Jacob Henry), 1855-1941 Date: 1890~/1899~ Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Jacob Henry Hall (1855–1941) used Songs of Home to advertise his skills as teacher and composer of sacred music. Published at the outset of his career, this small and inexpensive pamphlet features primarily Hall’s own compositions, ranging from musically conservative Sunday school choruses... 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: Persons, Simmons and Kennedy, R. Emmet (Robert Emmet), 1877-1941 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 -
Creator: Corlett, D. S., Moore, John E., Messer, L. C., Aycock, Jarrette E., Reinbarger, C. C., Reep, George D., Wells, Kenneth, Wallin, Henry B., Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959, and Petticord, E. W. (Emory W.), 1880- 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: 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: 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: Vaughan, James D., 1863-1941 Date: 1908 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: James D. Vaughan (1863–1941) began publishing a series of successful gospel annuals in 1903, later implementing innovative marketing strategies that would become white southern gospel industry standards. By Silver Trumpet’s 1908 publication date, the James D. Vaughan Company was still developing ... 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: Glenn, R. A. Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Despite its Anabaptist roots, the Ruebush-Kieffer Company did not issue this volume, its first of temperance songs, until 1881. By that time, temperance was no longer the purview of charities and individual denominations, but rather a growing international movement. Editor R. A. Glenn had been a ... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Unseld, B. C. (Benjamin Carl), 1843-1923 and Kieffer, Aldine S., 1840-1904 Date: 1877 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This late April 1877 volume features singing school songs and a variety of church tunes, including nineteenth-century standards and anthems. Temple Star is the first Ruebush, Kieffer and Company publication issued using the seven-shape notational system devised by Jesse B. Aikin. From the 1850s t... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Willis, George W., 1864–1934 Date: 1892 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This gospel volume includes late nineteenth-century selections that accompanied the invitations issued by George W. Willis (1864–1934), a Quaker evangelist who preached at revivals alongside his wife, sought-after temperance lecturer Genevieve Kinsel Willis (1864–1940). Kinsel Willis later earned... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit