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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Timothy_Swan_composer.jpg/250px-Timothy_Swan_composer.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Timothy_Swan_composer.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="336" data-file-height="393" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Timothy Swan, composer</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Timothy Swan</b> (1758–1842)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a <a href="/wiki/Yankee_tunesmiths" title="Yankee tunesmiths">Yankee tunesmith</a> and hatmaker born in <a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester, Massachusetts</a>, USA. The son of goldsmith William Swan,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Swan lived in small towns along the Connecticut River in Connecticut and Massachusetts for most of his life. Swan's compositional output consisted mostly of psalm and <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> settings, referred to as <i><a href="/wiki/Psalmody" class="mw-redirect" title="Psalmody">psalmody</a></i>. These tunes and settings were produced for choirs and singing schools located in <a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregationalist</a> communities of <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>. Swan is unique as an early American composer in that he composed secular vocal duets and songs in addition to sacred tunebook music. The tunebook, <i>New England Harmony</i><sup id="cite_ref-Nym_iii_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nym_iii-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a collection of his sacred music compositions, while <i>The Songster's Assistant</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a collection of his secular music.<sup id="cite_ref-Nym_iii_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nym_iii-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Swan was also a poet and teacher of singing.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birth_and_early_life">Birth and early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Birth and early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born July 23, 1758, Timothy Swan was the eighth child of the goldsmith William and Lavinia Swan of Worcester, Massachusetts. Not much is known of Swan's early years other than he resided in Worcester until his father's death in 1774.<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the death of his father, Swan was apprenticed to a "Mr. Barnes" of <a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Massachusetts" title="Marlborough, Massachusetts">Marlborough, Massachusetts</a>. Barnes, an "importer of foreign goods"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a loyalist who eventually left the colonies to return to England as relations between the two became increasingly strained. This caused an end to Swan's brief apprenticeship in Marlborough. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Groton_and_the_singing_school">Groton and the singing school</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Groton and the singing school"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After leaving Barnes' employ, Swan moved to <a href="/wiki/Groton,_Massachusetts" title="Groton, Massachusetts">Groton, Massachusetts</a> to live with his older brother William.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timothy's elder brother had an active interest in music and may have influenced his brother. Shortly after arriving in Groton, Swan enrolled in a singing school that was taught by a "Mr. Gross".<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This experience is probably the only formal musical education that Swan ever had. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cambridge_and_Northfield">Cambridge and Northfield</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cambridge and Northfield"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1774, Swan left Groton to enlist in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>. It was here that he learned to play fife under the tutelage of a British Fifer.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1775, a little less than a year after enlisting at Cambridge, Swan moved to <a href="/wiki/Northfield,_Massachusetts" title="Northfield, Massachusetts">Northfield, Massachusetts</a>. It was here that Swan became apprenticed as a <a href="/wiki/Hatter" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatter">hatter</a> with his brother-in-law Caleb Lyman.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is here in Northfield that Swan's attention focused on musical composition. His first composition "Montague" can be placed around 1774 when Swan was sixteen years old.<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Suffield_years">The Suffield years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Suffield years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After completing his apprenticeship in 1780, Swan moved to Enfield, Connecticut and then to <a href="/wiki/Suffield,_Connecticut" title="Suffield, Connecticut">Suffield, Connecticut</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> two years later in 1782. It was in Suffield that Swan composed most of his music. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Marriage_and_family">Marriage and family</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Marriage and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Suffield, Swan was introduced to Mary Gay, the daughter Ebenezer Gay, third minister of the First Congregational Church of Suffield. Swan may have been introduced to Miss Gay by his brother Benjamin Swan who was married to Lucy Gay, Mary's sister. His marriage to Mary on May 5, 1784, produced a large family similar to his own, ten children several of which were musicians like their father.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singing_schools_and_tunebooks">Singing schools and tunebooks</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Singing schools and tunebooks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Supplementing his work as a hatter, Swan began teaching singing-schools in the area. It was during this time that his music was first printed. In 1783, composer-compiler <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Brownson" title="Oliver Brownson">Oliver Brownson</a> included six of Swan's tunes in the third issue of <i>Select Harmony.</i><sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was followed by requests from other compilers and publishers to include Swan's tunes in their tunebooks and other publications. By 1800, his tunes were being printed in larger areas: New York, Virginia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. </p><p>This rise in interest in his music prompted Swan to publish his music himself. Collaborating with Alexander Ely, Swan published <i>The Songster's Assistant</i> in ca. 1786. The tunebook was a collection of secular duets. Swan contributed half of the songs in the collection.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1801, he published <i>New England Harmony</i>. Unlike <i>The Songster's Assistan</i>t, <i>New England Harmony</i> was a collection of sacred music. The tune book contained over 104 pages of original music. The collection contained many tunes that had been previously printed including his first tune Montague. The tunebook was not well received and Swan did not publish another collection after 1801. Even though the last tunebook did do well, Swan's music was still in demand and was published in later compilations by other tunebook compilers.<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Northfield">Return to Northfield</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Return to Northfield"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1807, 25 years after settling in Suffield, Swan and his family moved back to the town of his childhood. The reason for the move is not known; however, the decision may have been prompted by his mother's failing health. She died six years later in 1813.<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon returning to Northfield, Swan went into business with his nephew Josiah Dwight Lyman as milliners. Swan continued to compose music and receive requests from other compilers seeking to purchase the copyright of some of his more popular tunes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On July 23, 1842, at the age of 84, Timothy Swan died in his sleep in Northfield. Around the time of his death the style of psalmody that he composed had given way to more "proper" compositions more along the lines of the European school of musical composition. An obituary published in the <i>Boston Daily Advertiser</i>, dated August 5, 1842, noted, "Timothy Swan, 82, generally known to the public as the author of China and other pieces of sacred music, which have [so] long held a place in successive musical collections, that they have seemed to belong to an age long gone by."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_works">List of works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: List of works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>New England Harmony</i> (1801)<sup id="cite_ref-Nym_359_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nym_359-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Songster's Assistant (ca. 1786)</i><sup id="cite_ref-Nym_359_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nym_359-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm">American Composer Timeline.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ghcfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA575"><i>The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass.</i>, Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, New York, 1874.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nym_iii-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Nym_iii_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Nym_iii_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooke, Nym, ed. <i>Timothy Swan: Psalmody And Secular Songs</i>. Music of the United States of America, Vol. 6. The American Musicological Society. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. (1997), p. xiii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooke, Nym, ed. <i>Timothy Swan: Psalmody And Secular Songs</i>. Music of the United States of America, Vol. 6. The American Musicological Society. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. (1997), p. xviii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/yankeetunesmiths.html">"Timothy Swan", Early American Composers, The Yankee Tunesmiths.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Murray-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murray_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMurray1975" class="citation journal cs1">Murray, Sterling E. (July 1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/content/LXI/3/433">"Timothy Swan and Yankee Psalmody"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Musical_Quarterly" title="The Musical Quarterly">The Musical Quarterly</a></i>. <b>61</b> (3): 433–463. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fmq%2FLXI.3.433">10.1093/mq/LXI.3.433</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Musical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Timothy+Swan+and+Yankee+Psalmody&rft.volume=61&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=433-463&rft.date=1975-07&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fmq%2FLXI.3.433&rft.aulast=Murray&rft.aufirst=Sterling+E.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmq.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcontent%2FLXI%2F3%2F433&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATimothy+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hudson, Charles, <i>History of the Town of Marlborough from Its Earliest Settlement in 1657 to 1861</i>, Boston, Massachusetts, 1862.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Metcalf, Frank J. "Timothy Swan", in <i>Dictionary of American Biography</i>, New York: Scribner and Sons, 1940, p. 235-36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webster, E. "Timothy Swan." Manuscript Memoir, in Swan Papers, American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1842.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Temple, Josiah Howard and George Sheldon, <i>A History of Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years, with An Account of the Prior Occupation of the Territory by the Squakheags and with Family Genealogies</i>, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1875, p. 552.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suffield-library.org/localhistory/swan.htm">Suffield library</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Records of the Congregational Church in Suffield, Connecticut, 1710-1836. Hartford, Connecticut: 1941, p. 116.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sonneck, Oscar G., <i>Bibliography of Early Secular American Music (18th Century)</i>. Revised by William T. Upton. New York: Da Capo Press, 1964, pp. 404-05.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hall, Roger L. (ed.), <i>The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music</i>, pp. 300, 304.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Obituary", <i>Boston Daily Advertiser</i>, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5, 1842, pp. 235-36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nym_359-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Nym_359_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Nym_359_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooke, Nym, (ed.) <i>Timothy Swan: Psalmody And Secular Songs</i>. Music of the United States of America, Vol. 6. The American Musicological Society. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. (1997), 359.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Cooke, Nym. ed. (1997). <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan:_Psalmody_And_Secular_Songs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timothy Swan: Psalmody And Secular Songs (page does not exist)">Timothy Swan: Psalmody And Secular Songs</a>. </i>Music of the United States of America, vol. 6.<i> </i>Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions.</li> <li>-------- "Timothy Swan" in Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.</li> <li>Hall, Roger L. ed. <i>The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music.</i> Ditson & Company, 1878. Reprint, DaCapo Press, 1980.</li> <li>Hudson, Charles. <i>History of the Town of Marlborough from Its Earliest Settlement in 1657 to 1861.</i> Boston, Massachusetts, 1862.</li> <li>Langosch, Marlene. "The Published Works of Timothy Swan (1758-1842)." MMA Thesis. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1968.</li> <li>Murray, Sterling E. "Timothy Swan and Yankee Psalmody" <a href="/wiki/The_Musical_Quarterly" title="The Musical Quarterly">The Musical Quarterly</a> 61, no.3. (July 1975), pp. 433–60.</li> <li>"Obituary", <i>Boston Daily Advertiser</i>, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5, 1842, pp. 235–36.</li> <li><i>Records of the Congregational Church in Suffield, Connecticut, 1710-1836.</i> Hartford, Connecticut: 1941.</li> <li>Sonneck, Oscar G. <i>Bibliography of Early Secular American Music (18th Century).</i> Revised by William T. Upton, New York: Da Capo Press, 1964.</li> <li>Temple, Josiah Howard and George Sheldon. <i>A History of Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years, with An Account of the Prior Occupation of the Territory by the Squakheags and with Family Genealogies"</i> Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1875.</li> <li>Webster, E. "Timothy Swan." Manuscript Memoir, in Swan Papers, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts: 1842.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suffield-library.org/history/swan/indexswan.htm">Timothy Swan, Suffield Library, Suffield, Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Swan,_Timothy" class="extiw" title="scores:Category:Swan, Timothy">Free scores by Timothy Swan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a> (IMSLP)</li> <li><a href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Timothy_Swan" class="extiw" title="choralwiki:Timothy Swan">Free scores by Timothy Swan</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Choral_Public_Domain_Library" title="Choral Public Domain Library">Choral Public Domain Library</a> (ChoralWiki)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/musa/publications/musa-6-timothy-swan">Timothy Swan</a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/musa/home">Music of the United States of America (MUSA)</a><a href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Timothy_Swan" class="extiw" title="choralwiki:Timothy Swan">Free scores by Timothy Swan</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Choral_Public_Domain_Library" title="Choral Public Domain Library">Choral Public Domain Library</a> (ChoralWiki)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sound_files">Sound files</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Swan&action=edit&section=14" 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