I. B. Woodbury

Short Name: I. B. Woodbury
Full Name: Woodbury, I. B. (Isaac Baker), 1819-1858
Birth Year: 1819
Death Year: 1858

Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris.

He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina.

He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857.

--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives


Texts by I. B. Woodbury (14)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Awake, awake, and take the pledgeI. B. Woodbury (Author)3
أيها النائم ما هذا السباتIsaac B. Woodbury (Author)Arabic1
Christian, the morn breaks sweetly over theeI. B. Woodbury (Author)English3
Ho reapers of Life's harvest, Why stand with rusted bladeI. B. W. (Author)English83
Ho reapers in the whitened harvestJ. B. Woodbury (Author)English3
Hoestfolk livets hoesttidIsaac B. Woodbury (Author)1
Ihr Schnitter in der ErnteI. B. Woodbury (Author)German1
Ihr schweren Sorgen weichtIsaac B. Woodbury (Author)German2
Mother dear, O pray for meIsaac B. Woodbury, 1819-1958 (Author)English1
O slumberer, rouse thee! despise not the truthI. B. Woodbury (Author)English7
O we are happy now, dear motherIsaac B. Woodbury (Author)7
Speed away, speed away, On thine errand of lightIsaac B. Woodbury (Author)English1
Was steht ihr Schnitter müßig?I. B. Woodbury (Author)German3
When storms of sorrow darkenI. B. Woodbury (Author)2

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