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Publications

*''The Harmonist's Companion'' - Boston: printed by Thomas & Andrews, Oct. 1797 *''The Evangelical Harmony'' - Boston: Thomas & Andrews, Sept. 1800 *''The Middlesex Collection of Sacred Harmony''- Boston: Thomas & Andrews, Nov. 1802 *''The Village Compilation of Sacred Musick'' - Boston, printed for the author by J.T. Buckingham, 1806 *''The Middlesex Songster'' - Dedham: printed by H. Mann, 1809 *''Judgment Anthem'' - Dedham: printed by H. Mann, for D. Belknap, 1810

List of works

*''The Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter'' - The Gregg Smith Singers *''A View of the Temple: A Masonic Ode'', sung at the installation of Middlesex Lodge, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1795.

Discography

*America Sings, Volume I: The Founding Years (1993) *Under an American Sky

References

External links

* * 1771 births 1815 deaths American male composers American composers Shape note People from Framingham, Massachusetts {{US-composer-stub