made famous decades later by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” commemorating the “shot heard ‘round the world” at the North Bridge. According to local lore, freed slaves, Italian and Irish ...

Most of its songs are Protestant hymns. Unlike typical choral music, the genre uses a “shape note” form of notation, and, often (but not always), only four notes: “fa” is a triangle ...

53 x 37 cm. (20.9 x 14.6 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...