Publisher:
Utica:, Printed and Published by William Williams, No. 60 Genesee Street.: 1819 1819
"Thomas Hastings(1784-1872) well known composer of sacred music. ""He published two pamphlets (1816) afterward enlarged, and united with the Springfield Collection, in a volume entitled Musica Sacra... About two hundred of his hymns are in current use, and he left in manuscript about four hundred more. His music, with that of Lowell Mason, did important service in the Church, and marks in America the transition period between the crude and the more cultured periods of psalmody.""--Thomas S. Hastings in The New Schaff-Herzog Ency. of Religious Knowledge, V:167. We offer...
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