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Sounds of history : The making of a nation.

Title
Sounds of history : The making of a nation.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Time, Inc., [1963], ©1963.

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  • March, Fredric, 1897-1975
  • Eldridge, Florence
  • Collingwood, Charles
  • Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
  • Billings, William, 1746-1800.
  • Law, Andrew, 1749-1821.
  • Peter, Johann Friedrich, 1746-1813.
  • Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
  • Hewitt, James, 1770-1827.
  • Garnett, Horatio.
  • Phile, Philip, -1793.
Description
1 audio disc : 33 1/3 rpm, mono; 12 in.
Series Statement
Life history of the United States. Supplement ; Record 2, 1775 to 1789
Uniform Title
Life history of the United States. Supplement ; Record 2, 1775 to 1789.
Alternative Title
  • Making of a nation.
  • White cockade.
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier.
  • Corn cobs.
  • Waillie, waillie.
Subject
  • Music > United States > 18th century
  • United States > History > Sources
  • United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Songs and music
Note
  • Documents and music of the revolutionary period.
  • Vocal works sung in English.
  • Program notes by Virgil Thomson, and texts of selected vocal selections, on container.
  • Contents (cont.). Side 2: Music of the revolutionary period (The white cockade -- Chester / William Billings -- Johnny has gone for a soldier -- American hero / Andrew Law -- Corn cobs, or Yankee notions). Salon music (Lamentation over Boston / William Billings -- Waillie, waillie -- Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello / John Frederick Peter -- Toast to General Washington / Francis Hopkinson -- Battle of Trenton / James Hewitt). Music of the new nation (Ode to the Fourth of July / Horatio Garnett -- President's march / Philip Phile)
Contents
Side 1: Documents. Captain Amos Barrett's memoir -- Lt. John Barker's report -- John Adams to William Barrett -- Dr. Joseph Warren's statement -- Abigail Adams to John Adams -- Gen. Thomas Gage's report --Abigail Adams to John Adams -- Sgt. R--'s report -- John Adams to James Warren -- Declaration of Independence -- Tom Paine's "American Crisis" -- Sgt. R--'s report -- Surgeon Waldo's diary -- British officer's report -- George Washington to Henry Lee -- George Washington to John Jay -- Richard Henry Lee speech -- Franklin on the signing of the Constitution -- Preamble to the Constitution.
OCLC
ocm09954697
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries