Abraham Wood (composer)

For the English fur trader, see Abraham Wood.

Abraham Wood (1752 –1804) [1] was one of the first American composers.[2]

Wood was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony and was a drummer during the American Revolutionary War. He wrote Warren to commemorate the army officer Joseph Warren (1741–1775), who died courageously in the Battle of Bunker Hill and he wrote A Hymn on Peace to commemorate the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Revolutionary War. This work was circulated as single pamphlet instead of part of a larger collection of sacred pieces, which was more common of the time.

Scores

Volume 6. Abraham Wood, The Collected Works, edited by Karl Kroeger. 144 pages, ISBN 0-8153-2301-8.

List of works

  • Worcester (How beauteous are their feet)
  • Marlborough
  • Warren
  • A Hymn on Peace
  • Brevity (Man, born of woman)
  • Walpole
  • Hopkinton

Discography

  • "A Hymn on Peace" and "Warren" on The Birth of Liberty - New World Records[3]
  • "Brevity (Man, born of woman)", "Walpole", and "Worcester (How beauteous are their feet)" on Early American Choral Music Volume 2 Anglo-American Psalmody 1550–1800 on Harmonia Mundi[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/billings.htm Amaranth Publishing
  2. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline
  3. ^ http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=80276 Archived 2019-12-29 at the Wayback Machine The Birth of Liberty - New World Records
  4. ^ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Wood%252C%2BAbraham/all/1 Harmonia Mundi


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