Musical Medley by Daniel Peck

[Matt Bell]

Anyone have access to the 1808 Musical Medley by Daniel Peck?  https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Musical_Medley_(Daniel_Peck)  

I'm very curious about the P. Sherman compositions that didn't make it into the Sacred Harp.

Thanks!

Matt Bell

[Rachel Hall]

Yes! The Philadelphia Free Library has a rare copy. Like you, I was curious about the Sherman songs, as well as others in the collection. His songs in the SH are superb. Oddly, the library's copy is with the reference books, rather than special collections, so I don't think there are any restrictions on the scans I made, and if anyone wants to put them on archive.org or IMSLP they can: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CBz15Bts6u-bSyAIaidFlE9DIMXZs2qX/view?usp=sharing

Here's the song MORTALITY set in shapes. This song inspired me to compose MANATAWNY on page 257 of the 2025 SH. Note that the text here is corrupted -- MANATAWNY has the original Watts. The song AUGUSTA in the Shenandoah Harmony is also by Sherman. 

If you set any of these compositions in shapes, please post them here!

best,

Rachel

[Matt Bell]

Thanks, Rachel!  Did the 2025 edition fix the alto on Protection (MM 40, SH 187)?  It makes waaay more sense in the original.  On the other hand, the original is lacking that nice treble la-6 a couple of measures later...

Matt Bell

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[Rachel Hall]

No, there weren't any changes to the 187 alto in 2025 (in fact, there were very, very few changes to parts overall). I enjoy it the way it is in the SH, though. You can thank Ananias Davisson for the P. Sherman songs, and, in particular, for that 6-la in the treble! He seems to be the one who "lost" the original slur in the alto in his Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony. Hauser tried to fix it in a different way. 

Rachel

[Will Fitzgerald]

Uploaded to Internet Archive! https://archive.org/details/peck-1808-musical-medley

[Barry Johnston]

Here is Anticipation (Philo Sherman) in 4-shape format.

More to come.

Barry Johnston

Gunnison, Colorado, USA

[Barry Johnston]

I am trying to produce a list of works in The Musical Medley, but The Hymn Tune Index shows this publication as having 103 pages. The scan referenced above stops at page 72 – it is also missing 29 works, none of which are by Sherman. Ten of these 29 works appear in Oliver Shaw et al., The Columbian Sacred Harmonist of the same year (1808). Both were published in Dedham by H. Mann. Not sure what this means, other than the propensity of early 19th-century compilers and printers to mix and match. (Oliver Shaw was a much more European style composer, and he also wrote quite a few songs designed for music halls.)

Barry Johnston

Gunnison, Colorado, USA

[Wade Kotter]

Barry, the index in the copy scanned by Rachel matches the content of that copy. None of the tunes listed on the index page are missing. Perhaps the Philadelphia Free Library copy is an earlier printing that Temperley or his collaborators were not aware of. The copy indexed on The Hymn Tune Index appears to be the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society and is available on microfiche in the Early American Imprints second series (but not in the online version).

https://catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=420276

Wade

Dr. Wade Kotter

Retired Librarian

Independent Hymnologist and Unrestrained Loud Treble

South Ogden, UT

"Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord" 

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[David Warren Steel]

In Britton, Lowens and Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810, Crawford makes the following comment:
" The work has two indexes, one on p. [iv] covering only through p. 72, and another on p. [104], covering the entire volume. The preface claims that the music, except for one piece, is 'entirely original,' a statement pertaining to the first 72 pages but not the rest. These facts suggest either: 1) that the work first appeared as a 72-page book, and that the copy described here is not the first issue; or 2) that is was planned as a 72-page book, but after printing had begun, the final 32 pages were added. No copy of a 72-page edition has been found. "

the "copy described here" is that of the American Antiquarian Society (MWA), Shaw-Shoemaker 15859. Rachel evidently found the unlocated 72-page edition in the Philadelphia Free Library.

Wade writes,

>>>Barry, the index in the copy scanned by Rachel matches the content of that copy. None of the tunes listed on the index page are missing. Perhaps the Philadelphia Free Library copy is an earlier printing that Temperley or his collaborators were not aware of. The copy indexed on The Hymn Tune Index appears to be the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society and is available on microfiche in the Early American Imprints second series (but not in the online version).

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[Barry Johnston]

Thank you, Wade Cotter and Warren Steel. 

I have updated the List of works at https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Musical_Medley_(Daniel_Peck) . Of the four songs I have transcribed, Hamburgh seems the one of most note.

Barry Johnston

Gunnison, Colorado, USA