S. B. Ball

Stephen B. Ball (died 1881) was an American church musician associated with the Universalist denomination. He supplied the musical editing for The Gospel Psalmist (1861), the hymn-and-tune book he produced jointly with John Greenleaf Adams, and hymnals credit him with a number of hymn tunes. Little else appears to have been recorded about his life.

A complete hymn-and-tune book 'for public, social, and private devotion,' compiled for Universalist congregations on the eve of the Civil War. Adams — the denomination's most industrious hymnal editor — gathered standard psalmody alongside hymns by Universalist writers, with the music printed above the words in the manner of the New England singing tradition. A window on how the denomination actually sounded on a Sunday morning.

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A later Universalist Publishing House printing of Adams and Ball's hymn-and-tune book of 1861 (see the 1861 edition in this collection for a full account), issued in the years just before Church Harmonies replaced it as the congregational standard.

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