Holyoke, Samuel (Adams)
(1762–1820)
Holyoke, Samuel (Adams). Boxford, Massachusetts, 15 October 1762 – East Concord, New Hampshire, February 1820 Holyoke, a graduate of Harvard College (1789), endeavored to improve on the church music of William Billings and the other “primitives.” He published Harmonia Americana in Boston in 1791 and a large collection of church music, The Columbian Repository of Sacred Music in 1802. With Oliver Holden he published another collection of sacred music, The Massachusetts Compiler in 1795. Two…