| 词条 | Nehemiah Shumway |
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Nehemiah Shumway (August 26, 1761 – July 1843) was an American composer of sacred music, teacher, and farmer. LifeShumway was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children of Amos Shumway and Ruth Parker.[1] He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in 1790, and became principal of the Freehold Academy in New Jersey. Shumway married Sarah/Sara Tice/Tyse[2] on December 10, 1795. She was baptised in Freehold on July 4, 1773, and died in Lyme, New York, in 1831. They had four children together, but no known grandchildren.[3] Shumway moved to Albany, New York, where his first two sons were born in 1796 and 1798, relocated to Schenectady in around 1800, and returned to Albany in 1806.[3] In 1820 he settled in Lyme; after he lost his farm there through a title defect a few years later he returned to Freehold, where he died in 1843.[3] MusicShumway is best remembered today for two fuguing tunes included in The Sacred Harp, "Schenectady" and "Ballstown," though others, including "Pennsylvania," "Westminster," "Judgment," and "Creation," are still found in shape note books in print as of 2009.[4] He is also believed by some to have been the composer of the tune "New Jordan" (Sacred Harp p. 442), attributed to him by Ananias Davisson.[5] His sacred tunebook The American Harmony was published in Philadelphia in 1793 (2nd ed. 1801). (Note: There were several publications of this name in the same period.) Footnotes1. ^Genealogy of the Shumway Family in the United States by Asahel Adams Shumway (New York, Tobias A. Wright, 1909) 2. ^A Genealogy of the Warne Family in America by Rev. George Warne Labaw (New York, Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911) 3. ^1 2 George F. Daniels, History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts, Oxford, Mass.: Published by the Author with the Co-Operation of the Town, 1892, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qFEhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA688#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 688]. 4. ^"Pennsylvania" and "Judgment" in The Norumbega Harmony, UP of Mississippi, 2003, {{ISBN|1-57806-611-5}}; "Pennsylvania" and "Westminster" in The Missouri Harmony, Missouri Historical Society Press, 2005, {{ISBN|1-883982-54-5}}; "Creation" in New Harp of Columbia, U of Tennessee P, 2001, {{ISBN|1-57233-128-3}}. 5. ^D. W. Steel, The Makers of the Sacred Harp, U of Illinois P, 2010, p. 155 ("While Davisson's attributions are not always accurate, this is at least plausible, as the tune was first published in an 1815 edition of The Easy Instructor."). External links
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