Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie 1821 shape-note tunebook
Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie 1821 shape-note tunebook
Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie 1821 shape-note tunebook
Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie 1821 shape-note tunebook

Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie 1821 shape-note tunebook

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Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie, und leichter Unterricht in der Vokal-Musik. Enthaltend, die vornehmsten Deutch und Englischen Kirchen-Melodien; die bey allen Religions-Verfassungen gebräuchlich, auf drey und vier Stimmen gesetzt: und mit den neuesten und vornehmsten musikalischen Stücken, von verschiedenen Dichtern und Componisten, sammt hinreichendem Unterricht versehen, eingerichtet für Singschulen. Harrisburg, [PA]: John Wyeth, 1821. First Edition. [8838]

Leather spine, plain paper over card, oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches), title page with ornamental border, xii., 144 pp., text complete and very good. Very good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 230. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. Text is in German and English.

Johannes Rothbaust (1762-1841) "the first person to use the newly invented American system of shaped notes...with the German language...His earliest singing-school book, Geistliche Ton-Kunst (Hanover, PA, 1807) had the words printed, but the notes entered by pen, as there were not yet any fonts available for printing music with shape notes. His second [book] was called Die Franklin Harmonie (Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1821). Franklin was, of course, his county of residence. A third edition was titled The Franklin Harmony (in English). A Lutheran layman, John Rothbaust was the first of three influential shape note tunebook compilers to have his work printed in Chambersburg, by Henry Ruby, in 1830-31." - entry by Dick Hulan at FindaGrave online.

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