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