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A good selection of marches, and other pieces : autograph manuscript, 1785.

Record ID
220237
Creator
Pike, James, 1703-1792, compiler.
Biographical Data
American composer.
Object title

A good selection of marches, and other pieces : autograph manuscript, 1785.

Date
1785.
Credit line
James Fuld Collection.
Provenance
The Rev. James Pike, pastor in Somersworth, New Hampshire, in 1730; James Fuld.
Notes
American music manuscript, ca. 1785, containing 27 melodies (one with words), including Yankey Doodle (leaf 10) and Irish Washerwoman (leaf 11). The only names present, possibly composers, are King (An Elegy on Sophronia, "who died of the Small-Pox 1711") and Smith (Spring. L.M., leaf 14).
Associated names
Pike, James, former owner.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.
Composer