The American vocalist : a selection of tunes, anthems, sentences and hymns, old and new : designed for the church, the vestry, or the parlor : adapted to every variety of metre in common use, and appropriate to every occasion where God is worshipped and men are blessed ... embracing a greater variety of music for congregations, societies, singing schools, and choirs than any other collection extant : in three parts
Divided into three parts: "the first, contains church music; the second, the more important vestry music; and the third, the lighter kind of vestry music, or that which is more appropriate to particular occasions"--Preface.
Selected "from the compositions of Billings, Holden, Maxim, Edson, Holyoke, Read, Kimball, Morgan, Wood, Swan, &c., &c., and eminent American authors now living, as well as from distinguished European composers"--Title page.