Joseph Stone

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• Danbury

Life

Born: 20 March 1758, Worcester, Massachusetts

Died: 2 February 1837

Biography
Joseph Stone was a country schoolmaster, poet and composer, music teacher, a land surveyor, a bookbinder, and a representative of the Massachusetts legislature. He co-wrote The Columbian Harmony (1793) with Abraham Wood.

List of choral works

1. Psalm-Tunes

• Danbury
• Hadley
• Sutton

2. Anthems

• Unto us a child is born

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• Am I a soldier of the cross
• That awful day will surely come
• Unto us a child is born

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Publications

• Stone, Joseph; and Abraham Wood. 1793. The Columbian Harmony. Worcester, Massachusetts. 112 pp.

External Links

• Stone and Wood 1793 at IMSLP

References

• Steel, David Warren; Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 321 pp.