"Sherburne" (Cmas song) by Daniel Reed

Who did Law petition for copyright protection in 1781?

1785 is the year Daniel Read married and published ___________ (or A New and Easy Guide to the Art of Psalmody, etc.)

He made money, and they married and had four kids, one of whom they named after a composer. What was their son's name?

The Statute of Anne was a problem for Read (and others) because it gave ONLY British authors exclusive rights for ______

His The American Singing Book did very well, being issued ___ times (with supplements) over the next decade.

Of his 400 songs composed for the 1st NES, how many of them were published in his lifetime?

One way historians measure a song's popularity is to trace ____________.

What else is the C.M. 8.6.8.6. pattern used in?

Read followed the model of the imported ________ fuging tunes in "Sherburne."

Read became the 2nd American composer (after Billings) to produce a volume of ______________.

Read explained in his "Concise Rules" that the backward C following the key signature means two things: Cut time and

"Sherburne" has held a place in most Sacred Harp editions since it was first printed in 1844 and most recently in ____.

What was the name of the English copyright law made in 1710?

C.M. is written at the top of the score for Sherburne. What does it stand for?

Read was born poor and worked as a _________ in Massachussets before the Revolutionary War.

What seems to be the reason Read wrote "Words by an unknown Author" at the top of Sherburne?

How many versions of "Sherburne" were pirated between 1785-1810?

Handel was a famous ________ composer who wrote music at the same time as Bach.

Read wrote an angry letter complaining to Law that the Editor of _________ was robbing his American Singing Book?

Which of these is NOT something else Read did for work while co-running the publishing business?

He succeeded with an even larger tunebook, though it borrowed much of its music from earlier sources. It was called ___

What is the overall form of "Sherburne"?

Many of those reprintings were made without permission and without paying royalties to the creator. This is called

By the mid-19th century, collections of songs were made for these camp meetings, with ___ being one of the most popular.

Part of the appeal of "Sherburne" is its holiday subject matter; he used poetry from a Christmas hymn by English poet __

Though Law made his petition in 1781, what year did the Federal Copyright Law finally get passed?

Many hymns use the same metrical patterns found in older rhyming psalms. What is the syllable pattern of Common Meter?

What part of the Bible had Nahum Tate used as the basis for his hymn?

Whose enthusiam for fuging was probably due in part to how cool it sounded in the church for different parts to come in?

Early in the 1800s, "revival" or "camp" meetings surged in popularity in eastern states, with as many as ____ attendees.

The trademark of Read's personal fuging style (and popularity of this song) is the intertwining of voices to create ___.

The real fun in the song (for singers) is the start of the polyphonic fuging sectino, marked by ____.

Read only served in the army from 1777-8, then relocated to New Haven, Connecticut where he partnered with a(n) _______.

Read's life is a "rags-to-riches" story; when he began to woo his wife, Jerusha Sherman, her dad wouldn't consent since

What key is "Sherburne" written in?

Tastes changed, and people were moving away from fuging around when?

The long notes in the song usually fall on the word _________.

In 1803, one publisher bragged that his tunebook didn't have what he termed "wild fuges" with their _________ movements.

"Sherburne" lasted, though, and kept being published ______.

Another Yankee tunesmith, Andrew Law (get it?) petitioned for colonial copyright protection even before what?

Daniel Read was a big contributor to the First New England School's music, composing more than ____ tunes.

What did Read do to get back at the Worcester Collection?

The ______ spirit of a _______ tune is very well suited to the joyful occasion of Christmas.

Though we don't know which of Read's song was pirated in The Worcester Collection, it's likely ________ was one of them.

Several of the tunes in The American Singing Book grew very popular, especially a __________ tune titled "Sherburne."

How did the Connecticut General Assembly respond to Law's request?

Daniel Kingman said it must have been thrilling to hear different vocal parts come in from different places in the ____

They issued The American Music Magazine in 1786--the first to publish a(n) ____________ in America.