Title New England music : the public sphere, 1600-1900 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.

Publication Info.	Boston : Boston University, [1998]
	©1998

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML200 .N52 N3 1998	Available	---

Description	208 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Series	Dublin seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings ; 1996
	Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 1996.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
	"Bibliography of studies of New England music before 1900": pages 191-203.
Contents	Eighteenth-century ballroom : a mirror of social change / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- American death of Harlequin : musical pantomimes in Boston before 1815 / Peter Benes -- Thomas Walter and the society for promoting regular singing in the worship of God : Boston, 1720-1723 / Alan C. Buechner -- Singing and reading : Cooper's Public Presentation of Psalmody in The last of the Mohicans / Cheryl C. Boots -- "Village harmony" : music and popular culture in Portsmouth, New Hampshire / James Kences -- "I sing the Mason's glory" : freemasonry and musical life in early New England / Steven C. Bullock -- "How got the apples in?" : individual creativity and ballad tradition / Edward D. Ives -- Christmas religious music in eighteenth-century New England / Stephen Nissenbaum -- Evangelical hymns and popular belief / Stephen A. Marini -- Young convert's pocket companion and its relationship to migration patterns of American religious folk song / Emily Laurance -- Power of music enhanced by the word : Lowell Mason and the transformation of sacred singing in Lyman Beecher's New England / Martha Dennis Burns -- Military music and the roots of the American band movement / Raoul F. Camus -- A joyful noise : "Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal" : the late-nineteenth-century New England town band / David R. Proper -- Capt. Eliphalet Grover's "Boon island fiddle" : the folk violin in New England, 1750-1850 / Steven C. Mallory.
Subject	Music -- New England -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
	Music.
	New England.
	Music -- New England -- History and criticism -- Bibliography.
Genre/Form	Bibliographies.
Subject	Popular music -- Social aspects -- New England -- Congresses.
	Popular music -- Social aspects.
	Popular music.
	Popular culture -- New England -- Congresses.
	Popular culture.
	New England -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
	Manners and customs.
Genre/Form	Conference papers and proceedings.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
	Bibliographies.
Added Author	Benes, Peter.
	Benes, Jane Montague.

Title New England music : the public sphere, 1600-1900 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.

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