# Daniel Belknap

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| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1771|02|09|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [Framingham](/source/Framingham), [Province of Massachusetts](/source/Province_of_Massachusetts), [British America](/source/British_America)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1815|10|03|1771|02|09|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [Pawtucket, Rhode Island](/source/Pawtucket%2C_Rhode_Island), [United States](/source/United_States)
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'''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](/source/Framingham), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), and was an [American composer](/source/list_of_American_composers)<ref>http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline</ref> of the [First New England School](/source/Yankee_tunesmiths). He compiled four sacred tunebooks in the years 1797–1806, and also issued a book of secular songs with music. He died in [Pawtucket](/source/Pawtucket%2C_Rhode_Island), [Rhode Island](/source/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](/source/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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