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"John Wyeth (1770-1858) was a printer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who is best- known for printing Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (Harrisburg, PA: 1813), which marks an important transition in American music. Like the original Repository of 1810, Part Second used the four-shape system of Little and Smith in The Easy Instructor (Philadelphia, PA: 1801) to appeal to a wider audience; but its pioneering inclusion American folk tunes influenced all subsequent folk hymn, camp meeting, and shape note collections. Musicologist Warren Steel sees Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second as marking "the end of the age of New England composer-compilers (1770-1810) and the beginning of the age of southern collector-compilers (1816-1860)."David Warren Steel, "John Wyeth and the Development of Southern Folk Hymnody", Music from the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century: Essays in Honor of Gwynn McPeek, Carmelo P. Comberiati and Matthew C. Steel, eds. (London: Gordon & Breach, 1988), pp. 357-374. Available on-line at Biography John Wyeth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Ebenezer Wyeth, II, who fought at Bunker Hill, and Mary Wyeth, and the younger brother (by 12 years) of Joshua Wyeth who at the age of 16 participated in the Boston Tea Party. He learned printing through an apprenticeship. He worked as a printer in Santo Domingo. With the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, he moved to Philadelphia, and finally settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1792 he became the publisher of a newspaper, The Oracle of Dauphin (Dauphin County)."The first number of _The Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburg Advertiser_ was issued October 20, 1792, by John W. Allen and John Wyeth." The bulk of the article relates to _The Harrisburgh Journal and the Weekly Advertiser_ , which preceded the _Oracle of Dauphin_ as the first Harrisburgh newspaper. The following year he was appointed postmaster by George Washington, but in 1798 John Adams, who saw a conflict of interest in having a newspaper man also act as postmaster, dismissed him, although they were both Federalists. There is no record of Wyeth having any musical training or activity, but he discovered a market for tunebooks (with printed music) of sacred music at a time when "hymnal" referred to a book with words only. In 1810 when he published Joseph Doll's Der leichte Unterricht in der Vokal Musik for the German-speaking market, and Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, for moderate evangelical Christians. In 1813 he published a Second Part of the Repository of Sacred Music, containing songs for Methodists and Baptists. In 1818 he published Choral Harmonie enthaltend Kirchen-Melodien for German Lutherans. His wife was Louisa Wyeth (Weiss), together they had three children. His son Louis Wyeth (1812-1889) became a county judge of Marshall County, Alabama. Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second Although published in the north, Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813), had a profound influence on Southern shape note tune-books. Of the 41 folk-hymns introduced here, 10 were used by Ananias Davisson in the Kentucky Harmony (1816), 20 by William Walker in the Southern Harmony (1835), and six in the Sacred Harp (1844).Recordings of one such anonymous folk tune, "Vienna" (p. 105 in Part Two) can be found on YouTube by searching for "Shenandoah Harmony 321b Vienna". The tune, now known as "Nettleton," with the words "Come Thou Font Of Every Blessing" first appears here on page 112 in two parts (tenor and bass); it is now used in 397 hymnals. Note that the tune name used in the Repository is "Hallelujah," which, being used in countless other tunes, was replaced by a distinctive name at some later time. One element of Part Second, the appearance of English hymnody, such as the ten tunes attributed to Martin Madan, was part of an on-going trend in the northern states,Irving Lowens, "Introduction" to Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second Irving Lowens, ed. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964), p. xiv. but ignored by Southern tunebook compilers, who increasingly turned to regional folk tunes as sources of inspiration. Lack of musical training John Wyeth describes his musical qualifications in the last sentence of the Preface to the first part of the Repository: > In short, if many years attention to the charms of church music, if an > extensive acquaintance with the taste of teachers of the first emininence in > the United States, and with the possession of some thousand pages of > selected music to cull from, be considerations, which may added to the merit > of the editor's undertaking... Wyeth does not claim any musical training or attendance at one of the singing schools typical of the time; he limits himself to (1) liking church music; (2) knowing the "taste" of teachers (but not studying under them), and (3) owning a collection of books from which to cull. Musicologist Irving Lowens suggests that his motivations may have been strictly business.Irving Lowens, "Introduction" to Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Irving Lowens, ed. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1974), p. vii. Ross Ellison mentions the shrewdness in discovering a newly emerging musical market (revival music and camp meeting songs) as the significance of Wyeth's his contribution to American music."John Wyeth has earned a niche in the history of American music not because he was a musician, but rather because he was a shrewd enough publisher to recognize the cultural and musical forces at work in Pennsylvania..." Ross W. Ellison, "John Wyeth, Early American Tunebook Publisher", The American Music Teacher, Vol. 25, No. 1, (Sep 1, 1975), p. 22. Warren Steel qualifies this assessment by drawing attention to the fact that Wyeth grew up in the Boston-Cambridge area at a time when singing-schools were popular, and when William Billings and others were creating American choral music. The lack of musical skills did not matter for the original Repository, in which Wyeth merely reprinted material from earlier, successful publications. The innovative aspects of Part Second are attributed Elkanah Kelsey Dare, who was hired as music-editor, and contributed 16 of his own compositions (his entire known work). Dare may have been assisted by others, but their names have not been recorded. References External links * John Wyeth page on ChoralWiki. Category:Shape note Category:Hymnals Category:1813 in music Category:1813 books Category:Music publishers (people) Category:Hymnal editors "
"The Dzhagdy Range () is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. Geography The Dzhagdy is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the northeast of Amur Oblast and the western side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges (which also includes the Turan Range), being the easternmost of the group. The Upper Zeya Plain lies between this alignment of ranges and the Stanovoy Range to the north.Dzhagdy // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : (in 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The Dzhagdy Range is limited by the Zeya River valley to the north and west, where Zeya town is located. The Tukuringra Range joins the Soktakhan and the Dzhagdy on the area of the Zeya Dam. To the north flows the Uda River and in the south lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland. To the southeast the Selemdzha Range continues further eastwards.Google Earth The highest point of the Dzhagdy is an unnamed peak reaching .Kytay Topographic map N-52; M 1: 1 000 000 (in Russian) Flora and fauna The slopes of the range are covered by conifer forests, part of the Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests ecoregion, together with the Greater Khingan (Da Hinggan) Range of Manchuria, China. The Zeya Nature Reserve is located at the eastern end of the Tukuringra Range, where it joins the Dzhagdy. The lower altitudes of the range provide a habitat for the Siberian Salamander.JSTOR - Emmett Reid Dunn, The Salamanders of the Family Hynobiidae See also *Northeast Siberian taiga *Palearctic realm *Temperate coniferous forest References External links *Gorny Journal, 1905 Category:Landforms of Amur Oblast Category:Landforms of Khabarovsk Krai Category:Mountain ranges of Russia "
"The murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond occurred in early May 2014. Russell Dermond was found dead on May 6, 2014, in the garage of the house he owned next to Lake Oconee in Putnam County, Georgia. His body had been decapitated when it was found, and his head could not be found in the house. Russell's wife, Shirley Dermond, could not be located in the house either. More than a week later, her body was discovered at the bottom of Lake Oconee, about five miles from her house. She appeared to have died from a blow to her head, and her body had been weighted down with concrete blocks. Unlike her husband, she had not been decapitated. At the time of their deaths, Russell was 88 years old and Shirley was 87. As of August 2020, the murders have remained unsolved, and Russell's head still had not been found. Background Russell Dermond was originally from Hackensack, New Jersey. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He married Shirley on December 15, 1950. They went on to have four children and nine grandchildren. After working in the fast food industry, including owning several Hardee's locations in Atlanta, he retired in 1994. Russell and Shirley went on to move to the Great Waters Reynolds Lake Oconee gated community, about 12 miles northeast of Eatonton. In 2000, their oldest son Mark was killed in Atlanta while attempting to purchase crack cocaine. Investigators believe that there is no connection between this crime and the subsequent murder of Mark's parents. Russell Dermond was last seen alive on May 1, 2014, running errands at a grocery store and bank in Eatonton. Along with Shirley, he spoke with his son, Brad, over the phone later that day. Russell and Shirley were expected to attend a party for the 2014 Kentucky Derby the following weekend with their neighbors, who grew concerned when the Dermonds did not show up. On May 6, one of their neighbors went to the Dermonds' house to check on them. The neighbor found the door unlocked and went on to enter the house. Russell's dead, decapitated body was found on the floor of his two-car garage, lying in a small pool of blood. When police were unable to locate Shirley at the house, they initially suspected that she had been kidnapped. Ten days later, her body was found by fishermen on Lake Oconee. A subsequent autopsy found that she had died from either two or three deep wounds to the head from a blunt object. Investigations Initially, investigators were pursuing multiple potential leads to find the perpetrator (or perpetrators) and their motive for killing the Dermonds. However, this eventually led nowhere, and over time the leads gradually declined in frequency. Although the perpetrator and motive remain unknown, Putnam County sheriff Howard Sills has said he is convinced that multiple people were involved. Because gunshot residue was found on Russell's collar, Sills also believes that Russell was decapitated after having been shot in the head in an attempt to prevent police from finding the bullet, and that the perpetrators went to the Dermonds' home intending to obtain money, despite the fact that nothing in the home was stolen. See also * Crime in Georgia (U.S. state) * List of unsolved murders References External links * Category:Unsolved murders in the United States Category:2014 crimes in the United States Category:Crimes in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:2014 in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:2014 murders in the United States Category:Deaths by decapitation Category:Putnam County, Georgia "