Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839:
Bibliography Data-Beck MS, 1786

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Title "Henry Beck's Flute Book" [Commonplace Book] 
Number A5 
Short Title Beck MS, 1786 
Pages 23,158 
Date 1786 
Dance Figures  
Instruments  GF 
Authors Beck, Henry (c) 
Country 
Performers  
Publisher  
Theatre Works  
Genre  AM 
Place  
Location Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Facs,M63.B4 Case 
Nota Bene Title pages now lost. Pp. 4-20: MS copy of The Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (London: Chas & Saml Thompson, [ca. 1765]), copy in Shippen Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Ms music begins with second paging. 
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