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Andrew W. Johnson's the Eclectic Harmony: A Middle Tunebook in Middle Tennessee.

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| December 01, 2001 | Eskew, Harry | COPYRIGHT 2001 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In 1993, the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University purchased from a Nashville book dealer a previously unknown central-Tennessee shape-note tunebook, the second edition of Andrew W. Johnson's The Eclectic Harmony, which was printed about twenty-five miles from Middle Tennessee State University in Shelbyville, the seat of Bedford County. (1) The preface is dated June 1847 and indicates that Johnson was living at that time in Bedford County (see fig. 1). This is an especially significant acquisition, since there are no other known copies of this edition or extant copies of the first edition. Why call this a "middle" tunebook? Johnson compiled three ...

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