style that he exemplified and helped define. Three of the six works of his in the 1818 New Haven Collection were "corrected" to more closely conform to European standards before reprinting in that volume; his later manuscripts are works imitating the styles of European devotional music. Several of Read's tunes, such as "Greenwich", "Windham", and "Sherburne", are still sung in American churches; in addition to those tunes, "Judgment", "Lisbon", "Russia", "Stafford", "Windham", and "Winter" appear in The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody, a scholarly anthology of the 101 most often reprinted sacred tunes in pre-1810 America, as compiled by Richard Crawford. His work is also popular among Sacred Harp singers; eleven of his tunes appear in The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Read was one of the favorite composers performed by the Stoughton Musical Society. There are fourteen of his tunes in The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, reprinted in 1980, with a new Introduction by Roger L. Hall. Read's surviving writings and portrait may be found today at the New Haven Museum and Historical Society in New Haven, Connecticut. Example "Windham" is a 1785 song by Daniel Read, and one of his best-known works. Verse 2, 3 and 4 follow. V 2 Deny thyself and take thy cross, Is the Redeemers great command; Nature must count her gold but dross, If she would gain this heavenly land. V 3 The fearful soul that tires and faints, And walks the ways of God no more, Is but esteemed almost a saint, And makes his own destruction sure. V 4 Lord, Let not all my hopes be vain, Create my heart entirely new, Which hypocrites could ne'er attain, Which false apostates never knew. See also Music of the United States before 1900 American classical music Fuguing tune References Richard Crawford, Nym Cooke: "Daniel Read". Grove Music Online (subscription access) . Roger Hall, editor. The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, 1878 (reprint, DaCapo Press, 1980) H. Wiley Hitchcock (1969). Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Kroeger, Karl, ed. (1995). Daniel Read, Collected Works. Music of the United States of America (MUSA) vol. 4. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions. External links New England Composers Biography at the Cyber Hymnal Chicago World's Exposition Concerts Daniel Read at Music of the United States of America (MUSA)