The Christian Harmonist: Containing a Set of Tunes Adapted to All the Metres in Mr. Rippon's Selection of Hymns, in the Collection of Hymns by Mr. ... Added Hymns on Particular Subjects, Set Throu
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In time of three beats, a pointed Semibreve is 3 beats, a pointed Minim 3 beats, a pointed Crotchet 3 beats.
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Choosing are placed one above another, either of which, or Notes both may be sung. Single bar divides the notes into proportional parts.
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Samuel Adams Holyoke was an American composer. He also served as a teacher of vocal and instrumental music.
Background
Samuel Adams Holyoke was born on October 15, 1762 in Boxford, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Reverend Elizur Holyoke, cousin of Edward Augustus Holyoke, and minister for forty-seven years of the Congregational Church in Boxford. His mother, Hannah Peabody, was a daughter of Rev. Oliver Peabody, a minister to the Indians in Natick. The first child of this couple had been named Samuel, but as he died in infancy the second son was given the same name.
Education
Holyoke graduated from Harvard College in 1789, then in 1793, upon the establishment of an institution of higher education in Groton, Massachussets, he was called to open the new school.
Career
Holyoke began to teach in one of the district schoolhouses, his term extending from May 17 to October 5, 1793. Thus he became the organizer of Groton, later Lawrence, Academy. Holyoke had a fine voice and was composing music before he had graduated from college. His most popular tune, and his favorite piece of music, was "Arnheim, " which was written when he was but sixteen years old, and during the year of his graduation he contributed several compositions to the Massachusetts Magazine.
From the year 1800 he lived much of the time in Salem, whence he went to conduct singing schools and concerts in the neighboring towns. For a while he had charge of the singing in the North Society in Salem.
His first compilation, Harmonia Americana, was printed in 1791. His Columbian Repository of Sacred Harmony, though not dated, was entered for copyright on April 7, 1802. It was dedicated to the Essex Musical Association, contained over seven hundred tunes to fit the various meters in several hymn books then in common use and named on the title-page, and was the largest collection of tunes that had been published up to that time. Many of them were of his own composition.
The period of his musical activity began just at the time when William Billings was advocating the use of fugue tunes and was proclaiming their brilliancy over the slower tunes. Holyoke, however, did not approve of that style, for he considered that the effect of such music was trifling, and he therefore omitted it from his collections. While teaching in Concord, New Hampshire, he was taken sick with lung fever and died after a short illness in February 1820.
Holyoke's works included: The Massachusetts Compiler (1795) with Hans Gram and Oliver Holden; The Christian Harmonist (1804); and The Instrumental Assistant (1800-1807); as well as compositions for special services. He also published, beginning in 1806, several numbers of a periodical, the Occasional Companion.
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Membership
Holyoke was a member of the Essex Musical Association in that town, and several of the annual festivals of the association were held in his father's church in Boxford.