Oliver Holden
Oliver Holden (September 18, 1765 – September 4, 1844) was an American
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While working as a carpenter, Holden published The American Harmony (1793), a book of sacred music, mostly original, arranged in three and four parts. Soon afterward followed Union Harmony, or a Universal Collection of Sacred Music (1793 & 1801) and The Massachusetts Compiler (1795). He wrote the last-named work with Hans Gram and Samuel Holyoke. He edited The Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony (1797), a sixth edition, altered, revised, and corrected, with an appendix containing new psalm-tunes; it was printed upon movable types that had been procured from England in 1786, by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, and is the oldest music book that was thus printed.[5][6]
When George Washington visited Boston in 1789, Holden wrote the lyrics and score of an ode, and trained the choir which sang the music that greeted Washington at the Old State House. This chorus was performed again by the Stoughton Musical Society in their concerts at the Chicago World's Exposition in 1893[7] His popular tune "Coronation", to Edward Perronet's hymn "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name", is said to be the earliest American hymn tune still in general use. Also of note is his hymn "Confidence".[6]
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References
- ^ a b Frank J. Metcalf (1932). "Holden, Oliver". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ a b "We Still March to His Tune: Oliver Holden (1765-1844)". Learn The Bible. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ^ "Oliver Holden 1765-1844". Hymn Time. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ^ "KingSolomon". masonicgenealogy.com. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
- ^ "Oliver Holden". Christian History Institute.
- ^ a b Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ Hall, Roger Lee (2014). "World's Columbian Exposition Concerts in Chicago". Americanmusicpreservation.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.