Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839
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Text Incipit  Gnr-Cntry  Short Title Page Instrument 
Beschleunigung der Bewegung (t)  //13/53//111/15-//13/53  IC-G  Hanoverian Inf, 1821  53  HN 
Beside the calm retreat (fl)  //13/5671+//7/71+//2+7/5654//43  AI-A  American SS-SM  1  VO,KB 
Besogne, La (t)  //5/671+//5/1//424/313//  DA-N  Echo, 1758  81  KB 
Bess and Her Spinning Wheel (t)  //3-5-6-/5-1//6-5-6-1/65//5653/2123
 		 SC-S  Scots MM-4, 1792  371  VO,PF 
Bess, Bess, Bess, Betty, Betty, Bett (bt)  //34/51+//76/56//51+/71+//2+  SS-E  SS, Folger-C42.3  75  VO,KB+FL 
Bess Haggice (t)  //5-1/135//6543/25//13/15  DA-E  Johnson CD-2, 1742  20  MI 
Bess of Bedlam (t)  //23/43//35/7776//655  SS-E  SS, Folger-C42.1  142,2-143,1 & 177,2-17  VO,KB+FL 
Bess of Bedlam (t)  //565/31//456/67//1+2+1+  SS-E  SS, Folger-C42.4  318,2-319,1  VO,KB+FL 
Bess the Gawkie (t)  //5-1/5-3-4-//5-6-7-1/5-4-//3-2-1-/
17- 		 AI-A  Caladonian Muse, 1798  44  VO/PF/VN 
Bess the Gawkie (t)  //51+/534//5671+76/54//321/1+7  SC-S  Edinburgh MM-1, 1792  316-318  VO 
Bess the Gawkie (t)  //51+/534//5671+/54//321/1+7//6  AI-A  Scots MM, 1797  44L-R  VO,HA/PF 
Bess the Gawkie (t)  //51+/534//5671+76//54//321/1+7  SC-S  Scots MM-1, 1787  4  VO,PF 
Bess the Gawkie (t), or Favourite Scotch Song, A (at)  //51+/534//5671+76/54//321/1+  SS-E  SS, Harvard  1  BO,KB+GT 
Bess the Gawkie, Scotch (t)    AM-A  Huntington MS, 1817  II.33  FL/VN 
Bess-bell (t)  //345/51+//6565/44//345/565//  IC-E  Scotch Tunes (P), 1700  8-9  VN/FL 
Bessee Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //7-2/234//323/11//7-2/232//  MS-E  Vickers MS, 1770  38  MI 
Bessey Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44//656/44  DA-E  Johnson CD-1, 1740  13  MI 
Bessey Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/531  DA-E  Walsh CD-3.3, 1749  50  VN/OB/GF 
Bessey Bell and Mary Gray (at). Song 25 (t), or  //345/567//656/44//345/565  SC-E  Calliope, 1788  46  VO 
Bessey-Bell (t)  //7-12/234//323/11//7-12/27-5-  DA-E  Walsh CD-2.3, 1735  38  VN/OB/GF/CF 
Bessey's Haggies (it)  //132/15//6543/2//132/15  SC-S  Scots MM-1, 1787  31  VO,PF 
Bessie Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44//3456/531//  IC-S  Craig Scots Tunes, 1730  5  HA/SP 
Bessie Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44/3456/531//  IC-S  Scots Tunes (C), 1730  5  HA/SP/VN/GF 
Bessie Bell & Mary Gray (t)  //345/567//654/54654//345/54+3+2+  AM-A  Wilson MS, 1782  9V  FL/OB 
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //3-4-5-/5-6-7-//6-5-6-/4-4-//3-4-5
-/5-6-5- 		 IC-S  Stewart Airs, 1788  3:146  GF/VN/FI 
Bessie's Hagges (t)  //532/35//6543/23/532/35//  IC-S  Scots Tunes (C), 1730  4  HA/SP/VN/GF 
Bessie's Hassies (t)  //532/35//6543/23//532/35//  IC-S  Craig Scots Tunes, 1730  4  HA/SP 
Bessies Shigges (t)  //132/15//6543/23//132/15  IC-E  Caledonian PC, 1760  III,22  GF/VN 
Bessy Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44//345  SC-E  Calliope, 1746  II,8  VO,B+FL 
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Cure For Scold, 1735  35   
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Genuine Grub, 1731  17   
Bessy Bell (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  MS-E  Hammersley MS, 1790  27B  MI 
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Humours/Court, 1732  59   
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Intriguing Cour, 1732  58   
Bessy Bell (it)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  BA-E  Mock Doctor-1, 1732  2-3  VO 
Bessy Bell (it)  //345/567//656/44//345/565//3+/4+1+
 		 BA-E  Mock Doctor-2, 1732  2  VO 
Bessy Bell (it)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  BA-E  Old Man-2, 1735  14  VO 
Bessy Bell (it)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  BA-E  Plot, 1735  13  VO 
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Rome Excis'd, 1733  12   
Bessy Bell (it)    BA-E  Welsh Opera, 1731  9   
Bessy Bell & Mary Gray.(scotch).(also a C. D.) (t)  //34/57//61+6/44//34/55  AM-A  Cary MS, 1797  81-82  VO 
Bessy Bell & Mary Grey (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  IC-S  Stuart, 1724  V,106-107  HA 
Bessy Bell and Marry Gray (t)  //7-12/234//323/11//7-12/232  IC-S  Aird 2, 1785  24  FI/VN/GF 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (it)    BA-E  Calista, 1731  7   
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (it)    BA-S  Disappointed G, 1738  33   
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //345/567//65664//345/565//1+/3+  SC-S  Edinburgh MM-1, 1792  280-281  VO 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (it)    BA-E  Grub St.opera, 1731  8   
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (it)    BA-E  Jew Decoy'd, 1733  16-17   
Bessy Bell, and Mary Gray (it)    BA-E  Lord Blunder's, 1733  56   
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //323/11//7-12/232  AI-A  Scots MM, 1797  127-28  VO,HA/PF 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  SC-S  Scots MM-2, 1788  134  VO,PFF 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  SC-E  Watts MM-1, 1729  158-60  VO/VN+FL 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (it)    BA-S  William & Lucy, 1780  8   
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (t), or Song 2 (at)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  SC-E  Orpheus Cal-1, 1733  TI,3-4MOPI,3  VO,HA 
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray(ed) (t)    AI-A  Caladonian Muse, 1798  127-28  VO/PF/VN 
Bessy Bell and Mary Grey (it)  //345/567//656/44//345/565  BA-E  Highland Fair, 1731  45  VO 
Bessy Bell, &c (it)    BA-E  Court Legacy, 1733  13   
Bessy Bell, &c (it)    BA-S  Marches Day, 1771  68   
Bessy Bell &c (it)    BA-E  Vanelia, 1732  3   
Bessy Bell. with Variations (t)  //345/567//656/44//345/535  IC-E  Caledonian PC, 1760  III,6-7  GF/VN 
Bessy's beauties shine sae bright (fl)  //132/15//6543/2//132/15  SC-E  Orpheus Cal-2, 1733  T69-70MOP70  VO,HA 
Bessy's beauties shine sae bright (fl)  //132/15//6543/2//132/15  SC-S  Scots MM-1, 1787  31  VO,PF 
Bessy's Haggice (it)  //5-1/135//6543/23//13/15//671+5/35
 		 BA-E  Highland Fair, 1731  71-72  VO 
Bessy's Haggies (it)  //132/15//6543/2//132/15  SC-E  Orpheus Cal-2, 1733  T69-70MOP70  VO,HA 
Bessy's Haggies (t), or Song 30 (at)  //132/15//6543/2//132/15  SC-E  Orpheus Cal-2, 1733  T69-70MOP70  VO,HA 
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