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Abner Jones

Short Name: Abner Jones
Full Name: Jones, Abner

Jones, Abner. An American Professor of Music. [No. 286.] 19th Century

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Jones was apparently living in Carroll, New York, in 1815. By 1835, he was director of the New York Institute of Sacred Music. His works include:

Psalmodia Evangelica (New York: 1830)
Melodies of the Church, 1832
Evening Melodies, 1834
The Psalms of David, 1854
The Psalter Defined and Explained, 1860

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