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Ananias Davisson
1780 - 1857 Hymnal Number: 5t Composer of "RETIREMENT" in An Eclectic Harmony. II Ananias Davisson (February 2, 1780 – October 21, 1857) was a singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks.
Davisson was born February 2, 1780 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He spent his last years living on a farm at Weyer's Cave, about 14 miles from Dayton, Virginia, and died October 21, 1857. He is buried in the Massanutten-Cross Keys Cemetery, Rockingham County, Virginia. Davisson was a member and ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church.
He is best known for his 1816 compilation the Kentucky Harmony (Harrisonburg, Virginia), which is generally considered the first Southern shape-note tunebook. Composer and publisher William B. Blake said it was "a book characteristic of that period, abounding in minor tunes." Other books published by Davisson were A Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1820), Introduction to Sacred Music, Extracted from the Kentucky Harmony and Chiefly Intended for the Benefit of Young Scholars, (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1821), and A Small Collection of Sacred Music (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1825). According to musicologist George Pullen Jackson, Davisson's compilations are "pioneer repositories of a sort of song that the rural South really liked." Perhaps his best-known tune is "Idumea," a minor tune very popular in Southern shape note circles and featured in the movie Cold Mountain.
In addition to his own tunebooks, Davisson also printed Songs of Zion by James P. Carrell (1821)
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Ananias Davisson
Alexander Gillet
1749 - 1826 Hymnal Number: 6 Composer of "UNION" in An Eclectic Harmony. II Gillet lived in the 18th Century or earlier: The tune UNION, attributed to him, appeared in Select Number of Plain Tunes, by Andrew Law, 1781.
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Alexander Gillet
Swan
Person Name: Swan Hymnal Number: 11 Composer of "TRAVELLING TO THE GRAVE" in An Eclectic Harmony. II The composer is one or both of the compilers of the 1848 Harp of Columbia, William H. Swan and Marcus Lafayette Swan, (1827-1869) Wiliam H. Swan refers either to William H. Swan, Jr., 1798-18??, father of Marcus Lafayette Swan (1827-1869), or (less likely) to the latter's cousin William Harvey Swan (1816-1892).
Swan
Arthur H. Dyke Acland
1811 - 1857 Person Name: H. D. Troyt (1811-1857) Hymnal Number: 8 Composer of "EVENING HYMN" in An Eclectic Harmony. II Arthur Henry Dyke Acland changed his last name to Troyte in 1852 when he succeeded to the estates of Rev. Edward Berkeley Troyte. A part of the requirement for this succession was that he change his last name to Troyte. Therefore he is also known as A. H. D. Troyte, however, Acland is his authority name.
Arthur H. Dyke Acland
