{{Short description|American composer (1764–1838)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox person |name = Jeremiah Ingalls |birth_date = {{Birth date|1764|3|1}} |birth_place = Andover, Massachusetts |death_date = {{Death date and age|1838|4|6|1764|1|3|df=yes}}
|death_place = Hancock, Vermont |occupation = Composer |spouse = Mary Bigelow |father = Abijah Ingalls
}}
'''Jeremiah Ingalls''' (March 1, 1764 – April 6, 1838)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.singingalls.org/ |title=Jeremiah Ingalls and Shape-note Connexion |first=Thomas B. |last=Malone |work=Sing Ingalls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920234453/http://www.singingalls.org/ |archive-date=September 20, 2012 |url-status=dead }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920234453/http://www.singingalls.org/ |date=September 20, 2012 }}</ref> was an early North-American composer,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm |title=American Composer Timeline |publisher=Vox Novus |access-date=2016-12-05}}</ref> considered a part of 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. In 1791, Ingalls married Mary Bigelow of Westminster, Massachusetts, and while living in Vermont worked variously as a farmer, cooper, taverner and choirmaster. Ingalls served as the choirmaster at the Congregational Church in Newbury, Vermont 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 and then Hancock, Vermont. Ingalls was described as short and corpulent with a high voice and an advanced skill at the bass viol. Many of Ingalls' family members were also known for their musical ability. Ingalls died in Hancock, Vermont, in 1838, aged 74.<ref>{{cite book |first=Frank J. |last=Metcalf |title=American Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music |publisher=Read Books |year=2007 |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlD7w91K5VwC |isbn=978-1406751444}}</ref>
==List of tunes==
thumb|Northfield, by Jeremiah Ingalls {{listen|filename=NorthfieldByJeremiahIngalls.mid|title=Northfield, by Jeremiah Ingalls|type=music}}
*Northfield<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/special/music/ingalls2.jpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819170525/http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/special/music/ingalls2.jpg |archive-date=2012-08-19 |chapter=Northfield |title=The Christian Harmony |year=1805 |last=Ingalls |first=Jeremiah}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/inga-nor.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030810213934/http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/inga-nor.pdf |archive-date=2003-08-10 |title=Northfield |publisher=Choral Public Domain Library}}</ref><ref>Also, page 155 of ''The Sacred Harp''; this is the second most popular song among Sacred Harp singers according to the aggregated minutes: {{cite web |url=https://fasola.org/minutes/stats/ |title=Song Use in The Sacred Harp, 1995-2019 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2020 |website=fasola.org |publisher=Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association |access-date=11 January 2020 }}</ref> *Christian Song *New Jerusalem *Fillmore<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hymnary.org/tune/fillmore_ingalls |title=FILLMORE (Ingalls) |work=Hymnary.org |access-date=2016-12-05}}</ref> *Apple Tree *Redemption *Pennsylvania<ref>Shenandoah Harmony page 254; first appeared in Abraham Maxim's ''The Northern Harmony'' (1808).</ref>
==Publications== *''The Christian Harmony''; or, ''Songster's Companion'', Jeremiah Ingalls, (Exeter, NH, Henry Ranlet, 1805) **"Connexion" and Jeremiah Ingalls Society Bicentennial Edition, 1805–2005 of ''The Christian Harmony'' or ''Songster's Companion'', Thomas B. Malone, ed. This four-shape version, published for the Jeremiah Ingalls Society Bicentennial Singing in Newbury, Vermont, is increasingly in use in New England singings.
==References== <references/>
==Further reading== * {{cite web|url=http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/special/music/ingalls.html |title=Ingalls, Jeremiah, compiler |publisher=Grace Doherty Library, Centre College |location=Danville, KY |date=September 1, 1999 |work=Music and Printing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717033255/http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/special/music/ingalls.html |archive-date=July 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }} * {{cite thesis |last=Klocko |first=David G. |year=1978 |title=Jeremiah Ingalls' ''The Christian Harmony, or Songster's Companion'' (1805) |type=Ph.D. dissertation |publisher=University of Michigan}}
==External links== * {{ChoralWiki|Jeremiah Ingalls|Jeremiah Ingalls}} * Annual July singing in Newbury, Vt., from Ingalls' ''Christian Harmony'': [http://www.singingalls.org/ home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920234453/http://www.singingalls.org/ |date=September 20, 2012 }}, [https://www.facebook.com/events/134881293254433/ 2011], [https://www.facebook.com/events/347833635273242/ 2012]; minutes: [http://fasola.org/minutes/search/?q=(ICH)&n=2150 2005], [http://fasola.org/minutes/search/?q=(ICH)&n=2381 2006], [http://fasola.org/minutes/search/?q=(ICH)&n=2620 2007], [http://fasola.org/minutes/search/?n=2856 2008], [http://fasola.org/minutes/search/?q=(ICH)&n=3118 2009] * Music in Massachusetts [http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/mamusic.htm]
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