An Essay On Music. Pronounced Before the Middlesex Musical Society, Sept. 9, A.D. 1807, at Dunstable, (Mass.)

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1808. Book. 4to; a pretty copy in the original marbled wraps. Pp.19. A little foxed; fine. Sole edition of an erudite early American contribution to music criticism, by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. Hubbard examines the elements of melody, harmony, expr ession and accent, citing examples from Haendel. He takes American church composers to task for their predilection for fugues, attacking the practice for its obscuring sense in words and thus discouraging devotion. Imprints 15276..