Bird, Joseph; Bird, Horace. The Singing School Companion : A Collection of Secular and Sacred Music; together with a New and Easy Method of Instruction in the Art of Singing. Boston: Wilkins, Rice & Kendall, late Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1852. First Edition. [11494]
Signed "Harmon A. Sheldon" on the ffep, with the ink stamp of the Sheldon Art Museum beneath. Leather spine with small paper label, green printed paper boards, boards with old dampstain on front, some edge-wear, both a bit wobbly. The text has a dampstain, darkest at the title page, less noticeable elsewhere. 256 pages. Fair. Hardcover.
Title continues: Designed for Singing and Common Schools, Social Assemblies, Choir Practice, and for Religious Worship. In two Parts. Part I. Contains the Rules and Elementary Principles of Musical Instruction, arranged with Songs, Glees, etc., adapted to the several degrees of the pupil's progress. The Music of this part has also been selected with reference to forming a Choice Collection of the most Admired and Popular Melodies. The whole arranged in four voices.
Part II. Contains Metrical Tunes, Select Pieces, Anthems, Chants, and Grand Choruses, many of them by the most eminent Composers; for Public and Private Religious Worship.
The previous owner, Harmon Alexander Sheldon (1819-1870), merchant at Middlebury, Vermont. He was the brother of Henry Luther Sheldon (1821-1907), the founder of the Sheldon Art Museum in Middlebury.
