Joseph Funk

6 April 1778—24 December 1862

Featured Tunes:

PROTECTION

Collections of Tunes:

Die allgemein nützliche Choral-Music (1816): WorldCat

[New][Harmonia Sacra:] A Compilation of Genuine Church Music

1st ed. (1832): WorldCat
2nd ed. (1835): Archive.org
3rd ed. (1842): WorldCat
4th ed. (1847): WorldCat
5th ed. (1851): WorldCat
6th ed. (1854): WorldCat
7th ed. (1856): WorldCat
8th ed. (1857): WorldCat
9th ed. (1858): WorldCat
10th ed. (1860): Archive.org
11th ed. (1866): WorldCat
12th ed. (1867): WorldCat
13th ed. (1869): Archive.org
14th ed. (1871): WorldCat
15th ed. (1876): Archive.org
18th ed. (1915): Archive.org
19th ed. (1923): WorldCat
20th ed. (1942): Archive.org
21st ed. (1951): WorldCat
22nd ed. (1959): WorldCat
23rd ed. (1972): WorldCat
24th ed., Legacy (1980): WorldCat
25th ed. (1993): WorldCat
26th ed. (2008): WorldCat
Legacy ed., rev. (2010): WorldCat

see also:

 A Map or General Scale of Music (1847)

The Southern Musical Advocate and Singer’s Friend (July 1859–April 1861): WorldCat

Related Resources:

John W. Wayland, “Joseph Funk: The Father of Song in Northern Virginia,” The Pennsylvania-German, vol. 12 (Oct. 1911), pp. 580–594: HathiTrust

I.B. Horst, “Joseph Funk, Early Mennonite Printer and Publisher,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. 31 (1957), pp. 260–80.

I.B. Horst, “Singers Glen, Virginia, Imprints, 1847–1878, a Checklist,” Eastern Mennonite College Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 2 (1965), pp. 6–14.

Harry Eskew, “Joseph Funk’s Allgemein nützliche Choral-Music (1816),” Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 32 (1966), pp. 38–46.

Harry Eskew, Shape-Note Hymnody in the Shenandoah Valley, 1816–1860, dissertation (Tulane, 1966).

John W. Wayland & Bruce Souders, “Joseph Funk,” Virginia United Methodist Heritage, vol. 19, no. 2 (Fall 1993), pp 7–19: WorldCat

Harry Eskew, Two Notable Shaped-Note Leaders: Joseph Funk and Aldine S. Kieffer (Wytheville, Virginia: Jim Presgraves, Bookworm & Silverfish, 1995): WorldCat

Harry Eskew, “Joseph Funk,” Grove Music Online (20 January 2001):
https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10392

Stephen Shearon, “Joseph Funk,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/j/joseph-funk