First Forty
The Earliest American Compositions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14801949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Temperley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-4392 • E-ISSN: 1945-2349 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3052695 |
| OpenAlex | W2312335491 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Generations of Americanists have been intrigued by question: What were earliest American compositions? Oscar Sonneck himself raised it in his 1905 book, Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon. He said that for well nigh a century historians had treated William Billings as the Father of American Composers, primarily on basis of Billings's epochal publication, The New-England Psalm-Singer (Boston, 1770). Sonneck now refuted this claim, stating that the title belongs to either James Lyon of Newark, N. J.... or Francis Hopkinson.' For he had found evidence that each of these men had
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| Highly cited | No |
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