Nym CookeNym Cooke began studying shape-note music over forty years ago as an undergraduate at Harvard, and is now a leading scholar of early American sacred music. His publications include an edition of the complete music of Timothy Swan for the natioal series Music of the United States of America, a chapter on sacred music to 1800 in the Cambridge History of American Music, and two volumes of carols and part-songs, Awake to Joy!. An accomplished choral conductor and arranger of music, he has taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Brandeis University, and Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less