Isaac N. Young

Isaac Newton Young was a Shaker from New Lebanon, New York. He kept detailed records of his life with the Shakers, and more than four thousand pages are known to have survived. They constitute a major historical document. [Wergland]

His "A Short Abridgement of the Rules of Music", published in 1843, was the first historically notable collection of Shaker music to be published. [Rycenga, Jennifer, Denise A. Seachrist and Elaine Keillor, "Snapshot: Three Views of Music and Religion", pgs. 129 - 139, in the "Garland Encyclopedia of World Music"]

References

*cite book|title=One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865|first=Glendyne R.|last=Wergland|year=2006|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|location=New Lebanon|isbn=1558495231
* cite book
last = Koskoff
first = Ellen (ed.)
id = ISBN 0-8240-4944-6
publisher = Garland Publishing
title = Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada
year = 2000

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