📚 Anthems

The song that claims a group: national and sacred settings, and the arguments about which words stay.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject anthems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The psalm-singer's amusement	Billings, William	1781	10
	Templi carmina	Bartholomew Brown	1821	10
	The New-England psalm-singer	Billings, William	1770	9
	The Columbian harmonist	Daniel Read	1793	8
	Laus Deo. The New-England harmonist	Stephen Jenks	1800	8
	Select harmony	Andrew Law	1779	7
	Musica sacra; or Utica and Springfield collections united	Thomas Hastings	1822	6
	The American singing book, or a new and easy guide to the art of Psalmody	Daniel Read	1785	5
	Lyra Catholica	Edward Caswall	1818	5
	Jacob French	Daniel C. Jones	2014	5
	Samuel Babcock	Laurie Sampsel	2014	5
	Select harmony	Oliver Brownson	1783	4
	Leslie's temple anthems	C. E. Leslie	1891	4
	The New Church Anthem Book	Lionel Dakers	1992	4
	Old colony collection of anthems	Old Colony Musical Society	1818	3
	Sing! Make a joyful sound	Billy Souther	1954	3
	The anthem in England and America	Elwyn A. Wienandt	1970	3
	The Gostling manuscript	John Gostling	1977	3
	Thomas Lupo	Thomas Lupo	1982	3
	The congregational psalmist (3rd sec.).	Henry Allon	1873	2
	Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee	Unknown author	1897	2
	Winnowed anthems	M. L. McPhail	1916	2
	Der Chorstil Henry Purcell's	Fritz de Quervain	1935	2
	The Anglican anthems and Roman Catholic motets of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)	Holmes Ambrose	1969	2
	Bring Us Back	Mosie Lister	2001	2
	Gimny Rossii	G. V. Kalashnikov	2005	2
	Divine harmony, or, A new collection of selects anthems, us'd at Her Majesty's Chappels Royal ... and most cathedrals in Her Majesty's dominions : designed for the use of such as a	Unknown author	1712	1
	Anthems: for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices	Thomas Ellway	1753	1
	Psalms, hymns and anthems for the use of the children of the hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children	Foundling Hospital (London, England)	1765	1
	A collection of anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal, and most cathedral churches in England and Ireland	Anselm Bayly	1769	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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