Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839
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"Framingham Singing Society" [Copybook with tunes and country dances]  Adams, J. MS, 1808  7 with entries 
"No. 27. Vicar and Moses" [Copy book]  Adams, J. Q. MS, 1786  4 ; 4 
"Joseph Akerman's Book" [Copybook]  Akerman MS, 1795  81 
"List of Dances In N.Y. 1730" [Commonplace book with dance figures]  Alexander MS, 1730  5 with dances 
"Jacob Allen's Arithmetic" [Copybook with figures for 27 country dances]  Allen, Ja. MS, 1792  Dances on 131-137 
"Select Harmony" [Copybook]  Allen, Joel, MS, 1800  30 leaves 
"Apollo" [Copybook]  Allen, W. MS, 1790  150 
[Commonplace book with figures of 13 country dances]  Arnold MS, 1797  14 
[Country dance figures In printed book]  Bayer MS, 1749  1 
"A Selection of Airs, Marches, &c" [Musical copybook]  Beach MS, 1801  145 
"Henry Beck's Flute Book" [Commonplace Book]  Beck MS, 1786  23,158 
"Collection of Dance Tunes & Marches" [Commonplace book]  Belknap MS, 1784  60 Lvs 
"Property of the Bellamy Band" [Musical copybook]  Bellamy MS, 1799  82 
"Ebenezer Bevens Esq" [Commonplace book]  Bevens MS, 1825  67 leaves 
"Henry Blake his book" [Commonplace book]  Blake MS, 1776  19 pages with music 
"An Ode to Masonry" [Copybook]  Bolling MS, 1785  55 
"The Graces" [Copybook]  Bolling MS, 1790  68 
"Eli Boynton's Property" [Commonplace book]  Boynton MS, 1799  26 
"Journal of John Bremner" [Commonplace book]  Bremner MS, 1756  9 pp with music entries 
"Woodcutters" [Commonplace book]  Brooks MS, 1805  --- 
"Commonplace Book of Marches and Dances"  Brown, D. MS, 1797  11 pp with music 
"Henry Brown's Property" [Copybook]  Brown, H. MS, 1797  2, 65 
[Commonplace book containing melodies and figures of country dances]  Brown, J. MS, 1782  178 
"Nathl Brown Fife Major of the Fourth Connt Regt" [Copybook]  Brown, N. MS, 1781  49 lvs. 
"To Horse" [Single sheet with melodies of 16 bugle calls]  Bugle MS, 1800  2 
"A New Collection of Songs... From... The Songster's Compan[ion]"  Bush MS, 1779  92 leaves 
"New Instructions for the German Flute" [Commonplace book]  Cabot MS, 1784  34 
"Slow Marches & Quick Steps" [Copybook]  Campbell MS, 1770  1 
"A Choice Selection of Flute Melodies" [Copybook]  Canfield MS, 1823  160 
"Eleazer Cary's Book" [Copybook]  Cary MS, 1797  3, 149 
"Benjamin Clark's Drum Book" [Commonplace book]  Clark Drum MS, 1797  21 pp with notations 
"Ira Clark Jr. His Book" [Copybook]  Clark, I. MS, 1801  60 
[Commonplace Book]  Clarke MS, 1800  27 
"The American Volunteer" [Commonplace book]  Commonplace MS, 1797  54 Lvs 
"God Save the Governor" [Commonplace Book]  Commonplace MS, 1809  11 lvs. 
"Greenfields" [Commonplace Book]  Commonplace MS, 1811  35 
"A Colection of Music In Two Volumes" [Copybook]  Copp MS, 1799  Vol. 2, 25 pp 
[Commonplace Book Containing Rules of Grammar and 13 Country Dance Figures]  Crawford MS, 1794  49 
"A Most Excellent and Elagant Collection..." [Commonplace book]  Curtiss MS, 1800  166 
[Copybook Containing Melodies for One and Two Instruments]  Cushing MS, 1805  91-222 
"Dance Tunes and Marches" [Commonplace book]  Dance Tunes MS, 1798  35 
[Copybook bound with printed Harpsichord Tutor]  Dawes MS, 1790  51pages with music 
"Isaac Day 1st Book" [Commonplace book]  Day Drum MS, 1797  10 leaves 
"St Patricks March" [Commonplace book]  Dean MS, 1800  56 lvs. 
[Copybook with Instructions for Cotillions]  Densmore Cots MS, 1810  7 leaves 
"Silas Dickinson's Book" [Copybook]  Dickinson MS, 1800  157 Lvs 
[Country dance figures In MS in printed dance book]  Douglas MS, 1794  1 dance 
"Dance Tunes" [Copybook with tunes and dance figures]]  Duport MS-1, 1780  75 
[Copybook]  Duport MS-2, 1800  33 leaves 
"Miss George Anna Reinagle Music Book for Fancy Dances" [Copybook]  Duport MS-3, 1825  32 
"Early American Dances" [Commonplace book with dance figures]  Early Amer MS, 1795  4 leaves 
"Cushing Eells's Music Book" [Commonplace book]  Eells MS, 1789  122 
"Contra Dance Steps" [Commonplace book with dance figures]  Essex MS, 1830  19 leaves 
"Colonel Peter Gansevoort's Music Book" [Copybook]  Gansevoort MS, 1778  32 
"Benj'n Gardner's Book" [Commonplace book]  Gardner MS, 1788  23 pp with music 
"Majr John Gaylord Jr. Owner of This Musick Book" [Copybook]  Gaylord MS, 1816  25 lvs. 
"Giles Gibbs Jr. His Book for the Fife" [Commonplace book]  Gibbs MS, 1777  38 
"Fishes Hornpipe" [Single Leaf with manuscript music]  Gleason MS, 1800  1 
"John Greenwood" [Commonplace Book]  Greenwood MS, 1785  87 LVS. 
"Micah Hawkin's Book of Notes" [Copybook]  Hawkins MS, 1794  I,3; II,88 
"Hunt the Squirrill" [Commonplace book]  Herreshoff MS, 1790  10 lvs 
"Reb. Hiester" [Copybook]  Hiester MS-1, 1793  86 pp with music 
"Rebecca Hiester" [Copybook]  Hiester MS-2, 1793  76 
"Dea Justin Hitchcock" [Commonplace book]  Hitchcock MS, 1800  20 
"John Hoff's Flute Music" [Copybook]  Hoff MS, 1797  112 
"Joseph Hooves Book" [Commonplace book]  Hooves MS, 1817  27 lvs. 
"Jas B. Hosmer" [Commonplace Book]  Hosmer MS, 1798  8-69 
"Washingtons Grand March" [Copybook]  Hosmer MS, 1799  15 
"Gamut for the Violin" [Commonplace Book]  Hudson MS, 1772  28 
"Preceptor for the Flute" [Copybook]  Huntington MS, 1817  Numbered sections II-IV 
"Eben Irving" [Musical Copybook Containing 137 Airs, Marches, Dance Melodie  Irving MS, 1796  135 with music 
"Infancy and Love" [Musical Copybook]  Ives MS, 1800  65 
"Presented to Mrs. A. Rush by Frank Johnson, a Black Musician"  Johnson, F. MS, 1820  73 [with tunes] 
"Newly Corrected a Sett of the Choicest Country Dances"  Johnson, J. MS, 1769   
"Woburn Fife Book" [Commonplace book]  Johnson, S. MS, 1807  58 pp with music entries 
"Abel Joslens Book" [Commonplace Book]  Joslen MS, 1790  14 
"Luther Kingsley's Property" [Commonplace book]  Kingsley MS, 1795  I,56; II,98 
[Copybook Containing 114 Tunes for Violin]  Litten MS, 1800  32 
"The Rule of the First Roll or Gamut for the Drum" [Commonplace book]  Lovering MS, 1792  60 
[Typescript of Commonplace Book]  Maine MS, 1800  18 
"Sally & Eliza Marchant's" [Musical copybook]  Marchant MS, 1783  85 
"The Marlboro' Medley" [Leaves with lyric to tune of "Black Joke"]  Marlboro MS, 1787  3 
[Commonplace Book with figures of 35 Country Dances]  Mason MS, 1781  --- 
"Stony Point" [Musical Copybook]  Mass. MS, 1790  40 
"New Country Dances" [Commonplace Book]  Merrill MS, 1795  Dances on pp. 6-20 
"William Morris First Regament Hunterdon" [Commonplace book]  Morris MS, 1776  37 leaves 
[A Manuscript Collection of Music]  Morse MS, 1811  84 
"Edward Murphey" [Copybook bound with fife, flute and violin tutors]  Murphey MS, 1790  40 
[Commonplace Book with figures of Country Dances]  Muzzey MS, 1795   
"Square Dances" [Commonplace book with figures of country dances.]  New Hampshire MS, 1795  14 
"Community Dances" [Copybook with tunes and dance figures]  New Harmony MS, 1826  25 
"John Niles His Book" [Commonplace book]  Niles MS, 1813  87 
"Thomas Nixon Jun, His Fife Book" [Commonplace book]  Nixon MS, 1776  104 
"Ex Libris Johannis Ormsby" [Copybook Containing Melodies of 55 Minuets]  Ormsby MS, 1758  26 
"Collection of Music by George Otis" [Copybook]  Otis MS, 1793  46 
"Singing Book" [Commonplace book]  Parkman MS, 1721  43 Lvs. 
"William Patten's Book"  Patten MS, 1800  28 
[Commonplace Book with figures of country dances]  Pennsylvania MS, 1790  5 
"A Collection of Dancing Tunes, Marches, & Song Tunes" [Commonplace book]  Perkins MS, 1790  61 
"Betsey Perkins" [Commonplace Book with figures of country dances]  Perkins MS, 1800  8 leaves 
"The First Assembly" [Single Sheet with 3 tunes and 1 dance]  Philadelphia MS, 1783  1 leaf 
"Sally Pickman's" [Musical copybook]  Pickman MS, 1785  81 
"Selection of Music As Performed by the Pierian Sodality" [Copybook]  Pierian MS, 1810  p. 21 indexed 
"Ralph Pomeroy Jun. Owner" [Leaves bound with printed flute tutor]  Pomeroy MS, 1790  1, 27 
"Psalmody" [Copybook]  Psalmody MS, 1798  137 
"Bathshua Pynchon's Book" [Copybook with 27 Songs]  Pynchon MS, 1797  29 leaves with inserts 
[Leaves bound with printed book]  Read MS, 1798  11 
"Hiwell Taptoe for Lordsday Evening" [Commonplace book]  Remington MS, 1778  18 
"Richmond Dancing Assemblies: Fishers Hornpipe" [Sheet with dance figures]  Richmond MS-1, 1790  1 
"Richmond Dancing Assemblies: Fair Hybernian" [Sheets with dance figures]  Richmond MS-2, 1790  2 
[Commonplace Book with dance figures]  Ridgely MS, 1799  17 
[Copybook containing Music and 3 Dances.]  Roth MS, 1790  3 
"A Shattucks Book" [Commonplace book]  Shattuck MS, 1801  3-114 
"Nancy Shepley's Book" [Commonplace Book with dance figures]  Shepley MS, 1794  6 
[Leaves bound with printed tutor]  Simpson MS, 1750  I,8; II,23 
"Twenty Four Country Dances" [Commonplace Book with dance figures]  Skillern MS, 1782  25 
"Spicer's Pocket Companion" [Commonplace book]  Spicer MS, 1797  216 
[Half Sheet with Figures for 8 Country Dances In Manuscript]  St. Armand MS, 1793  1 
"John W. Stiles" [Copybook]  Stiles MS, 1807  102 
"Timothy Swan" [Commonplace book]  Swan MS, 1775  41 leaves 
[Commonplace Book]  Swetland MS, 1780  250-255 
"A Table of Time" [Commonplace Book]  Thompson MS, 1777  3-127 
"A Collection of Songs" [Commonplace book]  Thompson MS, 1790  80 
"Gamut for the Fifes" [Commonplace book bound with printed song book]  Treat MS, 1779  36 leaves with music 
"Adam's March" [Copybook]  Trumbull MS, 1801  15, 12 lvs, 2 lvs. 
"The History of the Tuesday Club"  Tuesday Club MS, 1745  Varied 
"John Turner's Liber" [Commonplace book]  Turner MS, 1788  I,136;II,26 
[Ship's Log, USS Concord: Bugle & Boat Calls]  USS Concord MS, 1831  8 pp with music 
[Ship's Log, USS N. Carolina: Bugle & Boat Calls]  USS N. Carolina MS, 1825  9 pp. with music 
"Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Her Music Book" [Musical Copybook]  Van Renssel. MS, 1782  I,74; II,16 
"Music Book" [Copybook]  Van Schaack MS, 1820  66 
"A Selection of Marches, Dances, Airs &c." [Copybook]  Washburn MS, 1816  20 
"Country Dances" [Commonplace Book]  Webb MS, 1798  11 with dances 
"A Collection of Dances" [Commonplace Book]  Weeks MS, 1783  29 
"The Scale of the Gamut for the Violin" [Commonplace book]  White, G. MS, 1790  1-100,105-131,133-142, 1 
"Behind the Bush" [Commonplace book]  White, O. MS, 1775  23 
"The Property of Asa Willcox" [Commonplace Book]  Willcox MS, 1793  37 
"Clarionet Primo" [Commonplace book]  Williams, J. MS, 1799  96 
"Sally Williams" [Copy book]  Williams, S. MS, 1795  29 with music 
"Ladys Brest Knott" [Commonplace Book]  Williams, W. MS, 1775  63 
"George Willis Book" [Leaves bound with printed tutor for German Flute]  Willis MS, 1795  17 
"Brose and Butter" [Commonplace book]  Wilson MS, 1782  25 
[Musical copybook containing 60 pieces for keyboard, four with dance figure  Winnington MS, 1810  77 
"Air by Gardner" [Musical Copybook]  Woodruff MS, 1803  105 
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