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

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 --The young convert's pocket companion and its relationship to migration patterns of American religious folk song / Emily Laurance --The 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.OMallory

Boston : Boston University, c1998

1998

208 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references

"Bibliography of studies of New England music before 1900": pages 191-203