Read, Daniel
composer, was born Nov. 16, 1757, in Attleborough, Mass. He published in 1791 The American Singing- Book, or a New and Easy Guide to the Art of Psalmody; and in 1793 Columbian Harmony, a collection of devotional music. Subsequently he published a New Collection of Psalm-Tunes, which came to be known as the Litchfield Collection, containing many tunes of his own composition (Dedham, 1805), Windham, Greenwich, Sherburne, Russia, Stafford, and others of Read's hymn-tunes are still in general use in American churches. He died in 1841, in New Haven, Conn.