Holyoke, Samuel

1771-1816

American composer of churchmusic and a teacher of both vocal and instrumental music. He was born at Boxford, Mass., and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. When twenty years of age he published Harmonia Americana, a collection of hymn-tunes and other pieces. He also published The Instrumental Assistant; The Columbian Repository of Sacred Harmony; and, with Oliver Holden, The Massachusetts Compiler. One of his tunes, Arnheim, is still sung. He died at Concord.