CONTENTS
SECTION I: SOCIAL DANCE
The Eighteenth-Century Ballroom: A Mirror of Social Change
Kate Van Winkle Keller
SECTION II: MUSICAL THEATER
The American Death of Harlequin: Musical Pantomimes in Boston before 1815
Peter Benes
SECTION III. SINGING SCHOOLS, MUSICAL SOCIETIES, AND SOCIAL FRATERNITIES
Thomas Walter and the Society for Promoting Regular Singing in the Worship of God: Boston, 1720–1723
Alan C. BuechnerSinging 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
SECTION IV: BALLAD TRADITIONS
“How Got the Apples in?”: Individual Creativity and Ballad Tradition
Edward D. Ives
SECTION V: RELIGIOUS MUSIC
Christmas Religious Music in Eighteenth-Century New England
Stephen NissenbaumEvangelical Hymns and Popular Belief
Stephen A. MariniThe Young Convert’s Pocket Companion and Its Relationship to Migration Patterns of American Religious Folk Song
Emily LauranceThe Power of music Enhanced by the Word: Lowell Mason and the Transformation of Sacred Singing in Lyman Beecher’s New England
Martha Dennis Burns
SECTION VI: MILITARY MUSIC AND TOWN BANDS
Military Music and the Roots of the American Band Movement
Raoul F. CamusA Joyful Noise, “Sounding Brass and Tinkling Cymbal”: The Late-Nineteenth-Century New England Town Band
David R. Proper
POSTSCRIPT
Capt. Eliphalet Grover’s “Boon Island Fiddle”: The Folk Violin in New England, 1750–1850
Steven C. Mallory
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of Studies of New England Music before 1900
Conference Program, 21 through 23 June 1996
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors