THE HARRIS COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY AND PLAYS

JOHN HAY LIBRARY

The Harris Collection includes nearly 5,000 American hymnals, both with and without notation, dating from the 17th to the twentieth centuries. The publications of most American denominations are included, in many different editions and languages. Important sections include Pennsylvania German imprints as well as an interesting selection of hymnals issued in the 20th century by small fundamentalist denominations in theWest, South, and Midwest.

See Also:
Early American Literature
Music

The John Carter Brown Library has a complementary collection of early American hymnals. Most notable is its copy of the Bay Psalm Book (1647) B31645525

Sheet Music Collection
John Carter Brown Library

American music before 1865 in print and on records : a biblio-discography / pref. by H. Wiley Hitchcock
Brooklyn : Institute for Studies in American Music, Dept. of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, [c1976]

Ellinwood, Leonard Webster
Bibliography of American hymnals [microform] : compiled from the files of the Dictionary of American hymnology : a project of the Hymn Society of America, Inc./ by Leonard Ellinwood, project director and editor, and Elizabeth Lockwood, associate editor
Microfiche ed
New York : University Music Editions, 1983

Epstein, Dena J.
Sinful tunes and spirituals : Black folk music to the Civil War
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1977]

Hixon, Donald L.
Music in early America: a bibliography of music in Evans.
Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1970

Krummel, Donald William
Bibliographical handbook of American music.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1987

Krummel, Donald William
Guide for dating early published music: a manual of bibliographical practice.
Hackensack, N. J. J. Boonin, 1974

Metcalf, Frank J.
American psalmody; or, Titles of books containing tunes printed in America from 1721 to 1820. Compiled by Frank J. Metcalf. New introd. by Harry Eskew
New York, Da Capo Press, 1968

Music printing and publishing / edited by D.W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie
New York : W.W. Norton, 1990

The New Grove dictionary of American music / edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie ; editorial coordinator Susan Feder
London : Macmillan Press Ltd. ; New York : Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc., distributor, 1986

Resources of American music history : a directory of source materials from Colonial times to World War II; D. W. Krummel ... [et al.]
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1981.