9-1106: Silliman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aldine Silliman Kieffer (1840–1904), American musician Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), American chemist Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885), American chemist Benjamin D. Silliman (1805–1901), American lawyer and politician Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), American attorney and Revolutionary War figure Horace Brinsmade Silliman (1825-1910), founder of Silliman University Jael Silliman , American writer Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886–1918), American writer Robert Hillyer aka Robert Silliman Hillyer (1895–1961), American poet Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet See also [ edit ] Silliman College at Yale University Silliman University , Dumaguete City, Philippines USC&GS Silliman See also [ edit ] Sillimanite [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
18-635: Is buried in historic Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Reader (with Theodore Seward, 1880) , The Choral Standard (1895), Fillmore's School Singer for Day Schools, Juvenile Classes and Teachers' Institutes (with J. H. Fillmore, 1895), and Progress in Song (with E. T. Hildebrand, 1911). B. C. Unseld prepared the rudiments of music for A. S. Kieffer's popular Temple Star . Unseld's tunes accompany hymns by James Rowe and Fanny J. Crosby . His most popular musical piece
27-622: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Aldine Silliman Kieffer Aldine Silliman Kieffer (August 1, 1840 – November 30, 1904) was a leading 19th century proponent of shape note musical notation, music teacher and publisher. Kieffer was born near Miami , Saline County, Missouri . He died in Dayton, Virginia , and is buried there. Kieffer was the grandson of Mennonite musician Joseph Funk . After Funk's death, he and Ephraim Ruebush took over Funk's publishing company. With Ruebush and John W. Howe, Kieffer founded
36-413: The surname Silliman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silliman&oldid=1055936736 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
45-619: The Kieffer, Ruebush, & Company music company circa 1873, which was moved from Singers Glen to Dayton, Virginia , in 1878. Kieffer was editor of the Musical Million and Fireside Friend periodical. The Musical Million , published from 1870 until 1914, was one of the leading tools promoting shape note music for almost a half century. It helped link teachers and students across the country, and published many songs in its pages. Kieffer taught singing schools and used his songbooks in
54-603: The Lorenz Publishing Company ( Dayton, Ohio ). In 1911, Unseld moved to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, to serve as dean of the new James D. Vaughan School of Music, one part of that famed entrepreneur's publishing enterprise. After 1914 he also served as editor of The Vaughan Family Visitor , the company's monthly house periodical. Unseld died in Lawrenceburg on November 19, 1923, but was not buried there. His wife returned with his body to "Old Virginia." He
63-791: The school's first secretary. Later he taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee , and was the first principal of the Virginia Normal School of Music. Unseld and Seward, with Biglow and Main publishers, imported John Curwen 's Tonic Sol-fa method of shape note music and promoted it. The method was never widely received in the United States. During his lifetime, he worked with the Biglow & Main Company (New York City), Fillmore Music House ( Cincinnati , Ohio) and
72-590: The schools. One of Kieffer's most popular song books was The Temple Star , published at Singer's Glen in 1877. One of his most popular songs was his poem Twilight is Stealing , set to music by B. C. Unseld in 1877 and published in the Temple Star. Benjamin Carl Unseld Benjamin Carl Unseld (October 18, 1843 – November 19, 1923), better known as B. C. Unseld , was a gospel music teacher, composer, and publisher. Unseld
81-714: Was born October 18, 1843, in Shepherdstown, Virginia . In the early 1860s, he moved to Pennsylvania. Though mostly self-taught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania . He studied music under Eben Tourjée and Theodore F. Seward . B. C. Unseld taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston , Massachusetts, and was
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