Elkanah Kelsay Dare

Short Name: Elkanah Kelsay Dare
Full Name: Dare, Elkanah Kelsay, 1782-1826
Birth Year: 1782
Death Year: 1826

Elkanah Kelsey Dare (1782-1826) was born in New Jersey but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime before 1818. He was a Methodist [sic Presbyterian] minister and very possibly the music editor for John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813), a shaped-note collection that includes more than a dozen of his tunes.

Emily Brink


Tunes by Elkanah Kelsay Dare (5)AsInstancesIncipitsort descending
BELLEVUEDare (Composer)2
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITYDare (Composer)213345 54317 1231
GLASGOW (Dare)Dare (Composer)215565 32156 71653
KEDRON (Dare)Elkanah Kelsay Dare (Attributed)2532115 54323 21112
MORNING SONG (Dare)Elkanah Kelsay Dare, 1782-1826 (Composer (melody, attr.))851234 32175 51234
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