Jeremiah Ingalls was born Andover, Massachusetts

Andover, Massachusetts

Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201...

 March 1, 1764 and died in Hancock, Vermont

Hancock, Vermont

Hancock is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for John Hancock. The population was 382 at the 2000 census. Hancock is home to the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and contains Middlebury Gap....

, April 6, 1838. He was one of the first American composers, and is considered among the First New England School.

Biography

Jeremiah Ingalls was born in Andover, Massachusetts in 1764. When he was thirteen his father, Abijah Ingalls, died of hardships suffered during the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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. In 1791 Ingalls married Mary Bigelow of Westminster, Massachusetts and while living in Vermont worked variously as a farmer

Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...

, cooper

Cooper (profession)

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 and choirmaster. Ingalls served as the choirmaster at the Congregational Church

Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

 in Newbury, Vermont

Newbury, Vermont

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 from 1791 to 1805, and the choir gained a reputation attracting many people from the surrounding area. In 1805 Ingalls published The Christian Harmony. Ingalls served as a deacon in the church, but in 1810, he was excommunicated from that congregation. In 1819 he moved to Rochester, Vermont

Rochester, Vermont

Rochester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,171 at the 2000 census. Rochester is home to the Quarry Hill Creative Center...

 and then Hancock, Vermont. Ingalls was described as short and corpulent with a high voice and an advanced skill at the bass viol

Viol

The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...

. Many of Ingalls' family members were also known for their musical ability. Ingalls died in Hancock, Vermont in 1838.

List of works

• Northfield - Score
• Christian Song
• New Jerusalem
• Apple Tree
  Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
  Jesus Christ the Apple Tree is a poem written by an unknown New Englander in the 18th century. It has been set to music by a number of composers, including Jeremiah Ingalls and Elizabeth Poston ....
  
  
• Redemption

Publications

• The Christian Harmony; or, Songster's Companion, Jeremiah Ingalls, (Exeter, NH, Henry Ranlet, 1805) selections
• "Connexion" and Jeremiah Ingalls Society Bicentennial Edition, 1805-2005 of The Christian Harmony or Songster's Companion, Thomas B. Malone ed.
• Klocko, David G. 1978. Jeremiah Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, or Songster's Companion (1805). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan
• Denson

Discography

• Harmonia Mundi
• I Am the Rose of Sharon
• Sweet Seraphic Fire
• The Shapenote Album
• Christmas Carols

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