IDUMEA

IDUMEA

Composer: Ananias Davisson
Published in 12 hymnals


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Composer: Ananias Davisson

Ananias Davisson (February 2, 1780 – October 21, 1857) was a singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks. Davisson was born February 2, 1780 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He spent his last years living on a farm at Weyer's Cave, about 14 miles from Dayton, Virginia, and died October 21, 1857. He is buried in the Massanutten-Cross Keys Cemetery, Rockingham County, Virginia. Davisson was a member and ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. He is best known for his 1816 compilation the Kentucky Harmony (Harrisonburg, Virginia), which is generally considered the first Southern shape-note tunebook. Composer and publisher William B. Blake said it was "a book characteristic of that period, abounding in minor tu… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: IDUMEA
Composer: Ananias Davisson
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 11713 43157 54345
Key: a minor or modal
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #245

The Sacred Harp #47b

Text

The Sacred Harp #47b

Include 9 pre-1979 instances
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