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Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik 1815
Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik 1815
Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik 1815
Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik 1815

Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik 1815

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Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik, : enthaltend eine Sammlung geistreicher Gesänge, mit den neuesten und vornehmsten musicalischen Stücken, von verschiedenen Dichtern und Componisten, nebst hinreichendem Unterricht versehen; Eingerichtet für Singschulen. : Zweyter Band. Harrisburg: Johan Wyeth, 1815. First Edition. [8789]

Leather spine with marbled paper over card, small chip to fore-edge of the front board, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 120 pp., text complete, a few dog eared corner tips, remarkably nice otherwise. Very good. Hardcover.

Gedruckt bey Johan Wyeth.--1815. Und zu haben bey dem Herausgeber, und bey Johan Wyeth, Buchhändler in Härrisburg: bey Matthias Zahm, Lancaster: bey Henry Doll, Yorktaun, und bey Johan P. Helfenstein, Carlisle.

Copyright Oct. 19, 1815 by Joseph Doll. Includes index of first lines.

Joseph Doll (1736-1818), b. & d. at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, baptized soon after birth at the First Reformed Church of Lancaster. He was a clock-maker and silversmith by trade, setting up his shop in York, Pa. "The Dolls were a musical family. Jacob Doll was chorister of Christ Church of York for many years. - The Pennsylvania-German, April 1904.

"Departed this life, on Wednesday morning last, Mr. Joseph Doll, clock & watchmaker, of this borough: - A man of unoffending manners and unblemished reputation." - Harrisburg Republican, 3 July 1818.

Joseph Doll (fl. Harrisburgh, Pa., ca. 1810-1818), a singing master, brought out the earliest printed shape-note tunebook in German [1810], naming it after Little and Smith's popular The Easy Instructor. When the German Reformed Salem Church of Harrisburg was incorporated on 3 July 1818, Doll was a trustee of the new church." - Britton & Lowens, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography, no. 169.

Stanislaw 58. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook. The Second Volume of Doll's first German language shape-note tunebook, issued five years after the first.

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