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DEVOTION

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Read Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51127 12312 32176 Used With Text: Sweet is the day of sacred rest

Sweet is the day of sacred rest

Appears in 46 hymnals Used With Tune: DEVOTION

Infinite indebtedness

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 95 hymnals First Line: Great God, let all our tuneful powers Topics: Means of Grace Family Devotion Used With Tune: DEVOTION

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Sweet is the day of sacred rest

Hymnal: The American Vocalist #37a (1849) Tune Title: DEVOTION

Hymnal: New Hymn and Tune Book #143c (1889) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Great God, let all our tuneful powers Topics: Means of Grace Family Devotion Languages: English Tune Title: DEVOTION

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Daniel Read

1757 - 1836 Person Name: Read Composer of "DEVOTION" in The American Vocalist Daniel Read; b. 1757, Rehoboth, Mass.; d. 1837, New Haven, Conn.An American composer and a primary figure in early American classical music. He was one of the “Yankee Tunesmiths” (1st New England School of Music) when classical music was popular in Europe. Read was a private in Massachusetts militia and later a comb maker and owner of a general store in New Haven, CN. He was only the 3rd composer in the U. S. to put out a collection of his own music. His work, “The American Singing Book” went through 5 editions, making him the most popular composer in the nation. Others often plagarized his tunes in those days. Tunebook sales supplemented his general store income, including “The Columbian Harmonist” (3 volumnes) with 3 revisions, and “The New Haven Collection of Sacred Music” 1818. Read also published “The American Musical magazine” in 12 annual issues in 1786 and 1787. In later years he came to appreciate European music more and imitated that styling in devotional music. Some of Read's music is still being performed, and selections have been published in “The Sacred Harp”, 1991 Edition, and the “Stoughton Music Society” (Centennial Collection 1980). John Perry