John Speller's Web Pages - Early American Church Music (before 1850)
Jackson, O 'twas a joyful sound
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- Arise, my dear love
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- Assist me, muse divine, to sing the morn
- Behold a lovely vine
- Behold, the lofty sky
- Belcher, Angels roll the rock away
- Belcher, An anthem of praise
- Brown, Hail, glorious day
- Build up an altar to the Lord
- Burnham, Erect your heads
- Carr, Psalm 42
- Carr, Consider the righteous man
- Come, Lord, and tarry not
- Hale, Lord's Prayer
- Ives, Bright shines the moon
- Jackson, Hear my prayer, O Lord
- Jackson, O 'twas a joyful sound
- Jackson, Ponder my words
- Lazarus
- Meineke, Gloria Patri
- Meineke, Lord's Prayer
- Morgan, Through every age, eternal God
- Morgan, Early, my God, without delay
- Meineke, Praise to thee, thou great Creator
- Meineke, This is the day the Lord hath made
- O bless the Lord, my soul
- O for a thousand tongues to sing
- Poole, Evening hymn
- Saxton, To thy pastures fair and large
- Selby, John, O for a closer walk with God
- Selby, William, Behold, God is my salvation
- Selby, William, Jubilate Deo
- Shaw, All things fair and bright
- Sing, my, soul, his wondrous love
- Taylor, All Praise to You
- Taylor, Awake my glory
- Taylor, Great God! to what a glorious height
- Taylor, Hymn for Epiphany or Twelfth Day
- Taylor, Jesus invites his saints to meet around his board
- Taylor, Let God arise in all his might
- Taylor, The Lord my Shepherd is
- Taylor, O, all ye peoples, clap your hands
- To bless thy chosen race
- Trajetta, The Day of Rest: A Cantata
- Tuckey, Come Holy Ghost, who ever One
- While shepherds watched (Carr)
- Zeuner, Sanctus and Benedictus
Dr. George Knowil Jackson was born in Oxford on April 15, 1757, the son of James Jackson, organist of All Saints Church (now Lincoln College Library). He became a chorister in the Chapel Royal under Dr. James Nares, and in 1774 he became organist of St. Andrew's Church, Wood Street, in London. He married Jane Rogers, daughter of an eminent physician, and in 1791 obtained the degree of Doctor of Music at St. Andrew's University in Scotland. He emigrated to the United States in 1796 and was for a short time organist of St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia, where he was succeeded by Raynor Taylor, who had been a fellow chorister in the Chapel Royal. He was variously organist of St. George's, New York (a chapel-of-ease of Trinity Wall Street) and of the Brattle Street Church and King's Chapel in Boston. He was exiled to Northampton, Massachusetts as an enemy alien during the War of 1812. He died in Boston on November 18, 1822. Although he is largely forgotten today, he was perhaps the major composer of church music in the USA during the first twenty years of the nineteenth century.
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