{{Infobox person | name = Daniel Belknap | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1771|02|09|mf=y}} | birth_place = Framingham, Province of Massachusetts, British America | death_date = {{Death date and age|1815|10|03|1771|02|09|mf=y}} | death_place = Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States | other_names = | occupation = composer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = four sacred tunebooks }} '''Daniel Belknap''' (February 9, 1771 – October 3, 1815) was a farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher.<ref>[https://www.routledge.com/Daniel-Belknap-1771-1815-The-Collected-Works/Steel-Steel/p/book/9780815324102 ''Daniel Belknap (1771-1815), The Collected Works''] David Warren Steel (Editor), Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. February 28, 1999 {{ISBN|978-0-8153-2410-2}}</ref>
Belknap was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, and was an American composer<ref>http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline</ref> of the First New England School. He compiled four sacred tunebooks in the years 1797–1806, and also issued a book of secular songs with music. He died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
==Publications== *''The Harmonist's Companion'' - Boston: printed by Thomas & Andrews, Oct. 1797 *''The Evangelical Harmony'' - Boston: Thomas & Andrews, Sept. 1800 *''The Middlesex Collection of Sacred Harmony''- Boston: Thomas & Andrews, Nov. 1802 *''The Village Compilation of Sacred Musick'' - Boston, printed for the author by J.T. Buckingham, 1806 *''The Middlesex Songster'' - Dedham: printed by H. Mann, 1809 *''Judgment Anthem'' - Dedham: printed by H. Mann, for D. Belknap, 1810
==List of works== *''The Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter'' - The Gregg Smith Singers *''A View of the Temple: A Masonic Ode'', sung at the installation of Middlesex Lodge, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1795.
==Discography== *America Sings, Volume I: The Founding Years (1993) *Under an American Sky
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ChoralWiki}} * {{IMSLP|Belknap, Daniel}}
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