TY - ABST T1 - Columbia: A Song, Written & Set to Music by Timothy Dwight, the Elder Y1 - 1777 A1 - Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future of America as a eutopia of science, the arts, freedom, and power in the world.

PB - Printed at the Press of Timothy Dwight College in Yale University CY - New Haven, CT N1 -

Text from the American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical (Philadelphia) 1.6 (June 1787), 1: 484-85. Written in 1777 and apparently published in broadsides, one version of which is Columbia: An Ode. [Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by John M’Culloch, 1794], which includes the music. The text and music can also be found in The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Approved Songs, Set to Music (Northampton, MA: Ptd. by Andrew Dwight, 1798), 207-11, with the title simply as “Columbia” on 207 but as “Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise” in the Contents. Book rpt. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 207-11.

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The cover reads Columbia: A Patriotic Song, Written & Set to Music by Timothy Dwight 1777.  

Alternative titles: Columbia: An Ode, “Columbia,” and “Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise.”

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