Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839:
Bibliography Data-Treat MS, 1779

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Title "Gamut for the Fifes" [Commonplace book bound with printed song book] 
Number C104 
Short Title Treat MS, 1779 
Pages 36 leaves with music 
Date [c.1779-1802?] 
Dance Figures  
Instruments  FI/GF 
Authors Treat, John? (c) 
Country 
Performers  
Publisher  
Theatre Works  
Genre  AM 
Place Durham? [see p. 29v] 
Location Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University 
Nota Bene Three or four hands represented in manuscript. Bound with fragment of Eliphalet Mason, "The Complete Pocket Song Book" (Northampton: Andrew Wright for the compiler, 1802). Wolfe 5633. Ll 1-19 for fife, 20-36 for German flute, incl instructions in MS 
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