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Choruses, Sacred

Entered under this heading when used without a qualifier are collections of sacred choral compositions for various groups of voices (men's, mixed, women's, etc.) both accompanied and unaccompanied. For collections or single works the heading may be qualified as appropriate in the following order: 1) voice grouping; 2) number of vocal parts; and 3) specification of accompaniment or the specification, Unaccompanied.

The number of vocal parts is specified when 8 or fewer if specification of accompaniment is: 1) not present; 2) Unaccompanied; 3) for continuo; 4) for a solo instrument; or 5) for 2 keyboard instruments.

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• Choruses

• Anthems
• Choral music
• Choruses, Sacred, Unaccompanied

• Sacred choruses

• The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion, by William Walker (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Urania: or, A Choice Collection of Psalm-Tunes, Anthems, and Hymns, From the Most Approv'd Authors, With Some Entirely New, in Two, Three, and Four Parts, The Whole Peculiarly Adapted to the Use of Churches and Private Families; To Which Are Prefix'd the Plainest and Most Necessary Rules of Psalmody (ca. 1761), ed. by James Lyon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Choir Herald (partial serial archives)
• The Choir Leader (partial serial archives)

• The Delights of Harmony, or, Norfolk Compiler: Being a New Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems, With a Variety of Set Pieces, From the Most Approved American and European Authors (Dedham, MA: Printed by H. Mann for the author, 1805), by Stephen Jenks (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Union Harmony: or, Universal Collection of Sacred Music (2 volumes; Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Oliver Holden
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• New England Harmony: Containing a Variety of Psalm Tunes, in Three and Four Parts, Adapted to all Metres; Also, a Number of Set Pieces, of Several Verses Each, Together With a Number of Anthems (Northampton, MA: A. Wright, 1801), by Timothy Swan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Easy Instructor: or, A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony (revised and enlarged edition; Albany: Websters and Skinners and O. Steele, 1831), by William Little and William Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Harmonia Americana: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, With a Variety of Airs, Suitable for Divine Worship, and the Use of Musical Societies, Consisting of Three and Four Parts (Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion, by William Walker (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Book of a Thousand Songs: The World's Largest Collection of the Songs of the People, Containing More than a Thousand Old and New Favorites (New York: Mumil Pub. Co., c1918), ed. by Albert E. Wier
  • PDF files at Rochester
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Songs of Childhood (scores with melodies and lyrics; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1923), ed. by Thaddeus P. Giddings, Will Earhart, Ralph L. Baldwin, and Elbridge W. Newton (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Everyday Song Book (fourth edition; Chicago: The Cable Co., c1922) (page images here at Penn)
• The Golden Book of Favorite Songs (10th edition; Chicago: Hall and McCreary, c1915), ed. by N. H. Aitch, contrib. by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill (HTML and page images at Celebration of Women Writers)