Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839
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Text Incipit  Gnr-Cntry  Short Title Page Instrument 
Before I Became a Free Mason (t)  //534/2332//16-6-/123//365/6  AM-A  Spicer MS, 1797  72-73  VO 
Before I Became a Free Mason (it)    AM-A  Spicer MS, 1797  T131M72  VO 
Before I became a free mason (fl)  //534/2332//16-6-/123//365/6  AM-A  Spicer MS, 1797  72-73  VO 
Before I was Married (t)  //533/321//533/31+//533/323//  AM-A  Brown, J. MS, 1782  1:37   
Before I Was Married (t)  //533/321//533/3//1+533/313  AM-A  Dickinson MS, 1800  27  2CL/2GF/2OB 
Before I Was Married (t)  //533/321//533/31+//533/323  AM-A  Mass. MS, 1790  7  FL 
Before I Was Married (t)  //533/321//533/31+//533/323  AM-A  Murphey MS, 1790  31  MI 
Before I'll quit my Molly (fl)    BA-E  Rival Milliners, 1737  34   
Before Jehovah's awful throne (fl)    AM-A  Dawes MS, 1790  51  HA 
Before Jehovah's awful throne (fl)  //1/1//1/123//2/2  AM-A  Pickman MS, 1785  1-4  VO,KB 
Before Jehovah's awful throne (fl)  //3-5-//3-1//11//7-1//11  AM-A  Van Renssel. MS, 1782  II,14-15  3VO:S(T)B 
Before my sad presaging soul (fl)  //1+7654//436555671+//6544332//2336
543//32234//435 		 IC-E  Houghton Airs, 1791  2-3  2HN,2MI/VO,B 
Before the barn door crowing (fl)  //55/55//5/545//65/45//6/671+//75/5
5 		 BA-E  Beggar's Opera, 1765  48-49  VO 
Before the barn-door crowing (fl)  //55/55//5/545//65/45  BA-E  Beggar's Opera, 1728  T25M7  VO 
Before the barn-door crowing (fl)  //55/55//5/545//65/45//6  BA-E  Beggar's Opera, 1777  59  VO 
Before the urchin well cou'd go (fl)  //351+531+//2462+76//51+5321  SC-E  Clio-1, 1758  137  VO,HAF 
Before the urchin well cou'd go (fl)  //351+/531//2462+/76//51+/5321  SS-E  SS, Huntington-1  26  VO,KBF 
Before the urchin well could go (fl)  //351+/531//2462+/76//51+/5321  SC-E  Muses Delight, 1754  150  VO,HA 
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