[American musical manuscript, early 19th century (pre-1814) : mostly secular]
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| Other title: | Tune Book Collection. |
| Format: | Musical Score Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloger. Contemporary sheepskin. Binding quite soiled and worn, with wormholes. Browning and staining throughout; many leaves considerably frayed at lower and outer margins with some loss, primarily to text; significant fading to text and/or notation to some leaves; lower portion of page 61 cut away. Pages 1-57 musical manuscript; Pages 58-64 unrelated textual manuscript musings (page 63 blank). Page numbering penciled in. Contains text and music to approximately 40 tunes. With printed excerpt from the Domestic Intelligencer dated October 4, 1814 to front pastedown and contemporary ownership annotations to page 58 including "Mary Garland," "Wm. Garland," "Lydia G. Barnstead," and "Boston," including the following: "William Garland is my name America is my nation, Montville is my dwelling place and Christ is my Salvation, When I am dead and in the grave and all my hours are nothing, [?] in this book my name is writ that it may not be forgotten." "Of particular interest is the touching "An elegy on Sophronia who died of the small pox," pages 14-15, with a total of 12 verses, cited with a date of 1711 in The British Poets (Chiswick, 1822) ... The reference to Montville may be to the township of Montville in Morris County, New Jersey."--Lubrano prospectus. |
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| Physical Description: | [United States] : [Garland family] ; [between 1800 and 1813] |