Sources for 3 songs in The Social Harp

[David]

I'm looking for the sources for three songs in John G. McCurry's Social Harp (1855): Communion (p. 61), Deep Spring (p. 249), and Permanence (p. 22). 

These three songs appear to have been borrowed from other sources by John G. McCurry (because they are uncredited in the Social Harp), but I have not found them in the tune books he used as the source for most of the borrowed songs in The Social Harp: The Sacred Harp, The Hesperian Harp, and The Southern Harmony.

All 3 of these songs are mentioned in George Pullen Jackson's writings:

Deep Spring: GPJ's "Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America" (p. 65) says this tune is found in John B. Jackson's Knoxville Harmony (1838), p. 90, and Caldwell's Union Harmony (1837), p. 89 -- does anyone have a copy of those books and could see if either or both matches the arrangement in The Social Harp? This song is also on p. 93 of The New Harp of Columbia (1867), credited to "Douglass". 

Communion: GPJ's "Down-East Spirituals and Others" (p. 144) gives this tune the family name "Liberty Hall", and says "The song was widely used in the earlier southern shape-note song books" (but he doesn't say which ones?)

Permanence: This song is apparently covered in GPJ's "Another Sheaf of White Spirituals", p. 163, but I don't have access to that book. 

I'd appreciate any help, especially page scans of these songs from older tune books.

Thanks,

David Smead

[Wade Kotter]

David, I can help with one of these tunes:

COMMUNION is on the bottom of p. 10 in the 1835 first edition of The Southern Harmony and later editions up to 1849; it was apparently removed in the 1854 ed.

https://archive.org/details/southernharmonym0000walk/page/10/mode/1up

According to Temperley's Hymn Tune Index, the earliest printing of COMMUNION is in Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music from 1810. I do not have access to a scan of this printing, but here it is from the 1820 ed. of this tune book:

https://archive.org/details/wyethsrepository00wyet_0/page/68/mode/1up

It is a close variant of the tune LIBERTY HALL, which, according to research done for The Shenandoah Harmony, was arranged by Lucius Chapin in ca. 1801. Rachel Hall and/or Nikos Pappas would, I believe, be able to provide more information on this.

I'll let you know tomorrow if I can help with the others you mention.

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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