Southard, L. H. The Offering: A Collection of New Church Music, consisting of Metrical Tunes, Chantes, Sentences, Quartetts, Motetts & Anthems; Designed for the use of Congregations, Choirs, Advanced Singing Schools, and Musical Societies. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1866. First Edition. [10753]
Leather spine, green printed boards, oblong 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, bookseller's ticket pasted inside front "From S. R. Leland's Music Store...Worcester, Mass." 257 clean pp., a few turned corners. Good. Hardcover.
The music is in round notes.
Lucien H. Southard (1827-1881), b. Sharon, Vermont; d. Augusta, Georgia. Southard was the music director at First Church in Boston, and after service in the Union Army was made director of the Conservatory of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, organizing and directing their orchestra. He was also the first director of the Baltimore Academy of Music.
