Cole, John. Union Harmony or Music Made Easy (1829)
Cole, John. Union Harmony or Music Made Easy (1829)
Cole, John. Union Harmony or Music Made Easy (1829)
Cole, John. Union Harmony or Music Made Easy (1829)

Cole, John. Union Harmony or Music Made Easy (1829)

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Cole, John. Union Harmony; or, Music Made Easy: A New and Pleasing Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, A Great Part of Which are Entirely New. Baltimore: Published and Sold by William & Joseph Neal, and John Cole. | J. Robinson, printer, (1829). First Edition.  [8839]

Leather spine with plain blue paper boards, lacking all free end papers with the text block pulling away from the backstrip, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches). (i.)-xvi., (17)-143, (1) pp. Text complete and very good. Good. Hardcover.

Title continues: Adapted to nearly all the variety of metres to be found in Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns, Dr Dwight's, Dr. Rippon's, and Rev. Mr. Dobell's Selections; the Village Hymns; the Methodist Hymn Books, and the new Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Whole Arranged in Three and Four Parts. To which is prefixed, A New and Complete Introduction to the Practical Knowledge of Music, and a Series of Progressive Lessons, Calculated to lead the Student on by regular steps, until the desirable object of singing at sight is fully attained. Intended for the use of such Teachers as are in the habit of using what are called the Patent Notes; and to remove the prejudices of those who have never fairly examined the System.

Stanislaw 37. A four-note shape-note tunebook.

With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.