A good selection of marches, and other pieces : autograph manuscript, 1785.
Record ID:
220237
Creator:
Pike, James, 1703-1792, compiler.
Biographical Data:
American composer.
Title:
A good selection of marches, and other pieces : autograph manuscript, 1785.
Date:
1785.
Credit Line:
James Fuld Collection.
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).
Provenance:
The Rev. James Pike, pastor in Somersworth, New Hampshire, in 1730; James Fuld.
Associated names:
Pike, James, former owner.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: