Index to Henry Livingston, Jr.'s Music Manuscript

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Music Manuscript Notation Analysis of the Music Manuscript

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Lowland Lads * Henry's Source *	Cardeloon De Dunkirk
Robin Gray	Pat
Miss Leslie's Rant	Miss Hedge's Minuet
Lord Cavandish's March	Miss Moore's Rant
Thro the wood Laddie	Lady Coventry's Minuet
Woman	Song in Thomas and Sally
Le Ballet Hollandais	Britannia

1-20	101-120
21-40	121-140
41-60	141-160
61-80	161-180
81-100	181-200
201-209

FAVORITE MIDI FILES
Farewell to Lochaber	Amo Amas
When Sable Night * Henry's Source *	Birks of Envermay * Henry's Source *
Song in the Duenna * Henry's Source *	Had I A Heart * Henry's Source *
Yankee Doodle	Deel Take the Wars
Cherokee Chiefs	Livingston's March
Ladies Breast Knot	A Rose Tree in Full Bearing
Tweed Side	Rosalind Castle
Sukie Bids Me	Successful Campaign
Dans Votre Lit	Guardian Angels

PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
1	Larry O'Lee MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
1	Fayette's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
1	Miss Brett's Minuet	YES	NO	Damaged, notes missing	x
2	Charles XII March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
3	Liberty MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
3	Saw Ye John Acoming MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
3	Woe's My Heart MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
3	Smirking Nan MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
3	Jacky Stewart's New Reel	YES	NO	Damaged, notes missing	x
4	Verses of the Medeine (Cont.)	NO	YES	Missing page probably precedes	x
5	Highland ...	NO	NO	Fragment	x
6	x	NO	NO	Fragment	x
7	Restoration March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
7	March in Solomon MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
7	Nursing Tune in Ye Elopement MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
7	Happy Club MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
8	Fair Hebe MIDI	YES	YES	x	Fair Hebe I left with a cautious design
9	Lincolnshire March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
9	Sukie Bids Me MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
9	There Was a Jolly Miller MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
9	Miser's Jewel MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
9	Rogue's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
10	Sweet Willy O	NO	YES	x	The pride of all nature is sweet Willy O
10	Sweet Passion of Love	NO	YES	x	The frost nips the land & the rose cannot blow
11	Sweet Passion of Love MIDI	YES	YES	x	This cold flinty heart it is you who have warm'd
11	Sweet Willy O MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
12	Successful Campaign MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
12	Deel Take the Wars MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
12	Lovely Nymph	NO	YES	x	Lovely Nymph assuage my anguish
13	Black Dance MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
13	Dorstream March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
13	Dureling MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
13	Tom the Barber MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
13	Lovely Nymph	YES	NO	x	x
14	Dans Votre Lit MIDI	YES	YES	x	Dans votre lit my Fanny say,
15	Lovely Nancy MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
15	Hounds Are All Out MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
15	My Fond Shepherds MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
15	Suffield	YES	NO	x	x
16	Come bid adieu to fear MIDI	YES	YES	x	Come, come, bid adieu to fear,
17	Yankee Doodle MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
18	Tempest MIDI	YES	YES	x	Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer
19	Tempest (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer
20	Tempest (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Now the dreadful thunders rearing
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
21-25	Tempest (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Now once more on Joy's we're thinking,
21-25	Love MIDI	YES	YES	x	Love's a dream of mighty treasure,
26	Bangor MIDI	YES	NO	Lyrics by Watts; Music by Tan'sur	Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound;
x	Dying Christian	YES	YES	Alexander Pope	Vital spark of heav'nly flame,
27	Lenox	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Ye tribes of Adam join
27	Norwich MIDI	YES	YES	x	My sorrows like a flock, impatient of restraint,
x	Dying Christian (Cont.)	YES	YES	x	Heav'n opens on my eyes,
28	Virginia, Psalm 89 MIDI	YES	YES	Lyrics by Watts; Music by Brownson	Thy words, ye raging wind controul,
28	St. Martin's MIDI	YES	NO	Lyrics by Watts; Music by Tans'ur	Behold the glories of the Lamb
28	St. Michael's MIDI	YES	YES	Brady and Tate; Handel	O praise ye the Lord,
29	Denbigh	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	From all who dwell below the skies,
29	146th Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	I'll praise my maker with my breath,
30	Jubilee MIDI	YES	YES	Lyrics by Wesley; Music by Edson	Blow ye the trumpet, blow;
31	Littleton MIDI	YES	YES	By John Cennick	Lo! he cometh! countless trumpets,
32	Middletown MIDI	YES	YES	By Charles Wesley	Hail the day that sees him rise,
x	136th Psalm	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Hast thou not giv'n thy word,
33	Psalm 89	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	With rev'rence let the saints appear,
33	Amsterdam MIDI	YES	YES	Nares and Seagrave	Rise my soul and stretch thy wings,
x	Wells	YES	NO	Lyrics by Watts; Music by Holdroyd Damaged, notes missing	x
34	Stratford, Psalm 24	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	This spacious earth is all the Lord's,
x	122nd Psalm	YES	YES	x	How pleas'd and blest was I,
35	Denmark	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Before Jehovah's awful throne,
36	Denmark (Cont.)	YES	YES	x	Wide, wide as the world is thy command,
x	Worcester, Hymn 10	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	How beauteous are their feet,
37	Worcester (Cont.)	YES	YES	x	How sweet the tidings are:
x	115th Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Not to our names thou only just & true.
x	Funeral	YES	YES	x	Hark from the tombs a dolesome sound,
38	Greenfield	YES	YES	By Tate and Brady	God is our refuge in distress
x	Hartford	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Glorious Jesus, glorious Jesus:
38	Portsmouth MIDI	YES	NO	Dr. Watts	x
38	Aylesbury MIDI	YES	NO	Dr. Watts	x
38	Angel's Hymn MIDI	YES	NO	Music by Orlando Gibbons	x
38	Warren MIDI	YES	YES	Lyrics by Cennick; Music by Pleyel	Children of the heav'nly King,
39	Bunker Hill MIDI	YES	YES	Lyrics by Niles; Music by Law	Why should vain Mortals tremble
x	Dalston	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	The Lord Jehovah reigns,
39	Boston MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts, music by William Billings	Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes,
x	Helmsley	YES	YES	Charles Wesley	Lo! he comes in clouds descending
39	Old 100th Psalm MIDI	YES	NO	Louis Bourgeois	x
40	Milford MIDI	YES	YES	Arnold	If angels sing a Saviour's birth,
x	Mendon	YES	YES	x	My Redeemer let me be
x	Maryland	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	And must this body die:
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
41	Burton, Psalm 150 MIDI	YES	YES	Brady and Tate	O praise the Lord in that blest place,
41	Rickmansworth, Psalm 101 MIDI	YES	YES	x	Of mercy's never failing spring
41	Little Marlborough, Psalm 98 MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Come sound his praise abroad,
41	Chester MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts, music by William Billings	With all my pow'r of heart & tongue,
41	Watling, 34th Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	I'll bless ye Lord from day to day;
41	White Haven, 45th Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	The king of saints how fair his face
42	Invitation, Hymn 7 MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Let ev'ry mortal ear attend,
x	Oldford	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	With joy we meditate ye grace,
42	Chatham MIDI	YES	YES	Charles Wesley	Thou God of glorious majesty,
42	Hebron, 94th Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	The God Jehovah reigns
42	Buckingham MIDI	YES	NO	Charles Wesley	x
42	Norfolk MIDI	YES	YES	x	Alas the brittle clay,
43	Bethany, 102nd Psalm MIDI	YES	YES	x	Hear me O God, nor hide thy face;
43	Washington, Psalm 68 MIDI	YES	YES	Music by William Billings	Lord when thou didst ascend on high,
43	Untitled Hymn MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
43	Lebanon MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Rejoice ye shining worlds on high,
44	Feversham MIDI	YES	YES	Martin Maden	Now begin the heav'nly theme,
44	Hexham MIDI	YES	YES	x	Come to Jesus, come away,
44	Sinai MIDI	YES	YES	x	O the immense th' amazing height!
44	New Eagle Street MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Great is the Lord our God,
44	St. Thomas MIDI	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	My God, permit my tongue,
44	Stroud MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
45	Edinburgh	YES	YES	x	Hail holy holy, holy Lord!
x	Rainbow	YES	YES	Dr. Watts	Tie by thy strength the mountains stand,
x	Worthington	YES	YES	Charles Wesley	Thee we adore eternal name,
x	Brookfield	YES	YES	Dr. Watts, music by William Billings	Show pity Lord, O Lord forgive,
45	Sherborne MIDI	YES	YES	Nahum Tate	While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night,
46	When Sable Night MIDI Midi of Henry's Source	YES	YES	From The Duenna by Sheridan	When sable night each drooping plant restoring,
47	Rosalind Castle MIDI	YES	YES	x	'Twas in that season of the year,
48	Guardian Angels MIDI	YES	YES	x	Guardian angels now protect me
49	Birks of Envermay MIDI Midi of Henry's Source	YES	YES	From The Duenna by Sheridan	How oft Louisa hast thou said,
49	General Warren's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
49	McPherson's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
50	Tom & Kate MIDI	YES	YES	x	Tho the fate of battle on to Moscow wait,
51	The sun from the east MIDI	YES	YES	x	The sun from the east tips the mountains with gold,
52	Laughing Song MIDI	YES	YES	From Tom the Barber	Now's the time for mirth and glee,
53	Sweet Poll of Plymouth MIDI	YES	YES	x	Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear,
54	Amo Amas MIDI	YES	YES	By John O'Keffe	Amo, amas, I love a lass
55	Columbian Muse	NO	YES	By Timothy Dwight	Columbia, Columbia to glory arise
56	Columbian Muse (Cont.)	NO	YES	By Timothy Dwight	Thy fleets to all regions thy pow'r shall display
57	Forever Fortune	NO	YES	By James Thomson	Forever fortune wilt thou prove
x	Winter Song	NO	YES	x	When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen
58	Tarry Woo	NO	YES	x	Tarry woo, and Tarry woo,
59	British Muse MIDI	YES	YES	x	O could the various force of sound,
60	Highland Queen	NO	YES	x	No more my song shall be, ye swains,
60	Allemand Swisse MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
60	Sophronia MIDI	YES	YES	x	Forebear my friend, forbear, & ask no more
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
61	Highland Queen MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
61	Country Frolic MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
61	Free Mason's Health MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
62	The Young Man's Wish MIDI	YES	YES	x	Free from the bustle, care, and strife,
63	O What a Simpleton MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
64	Nancy Whiting's Frish MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
65	Hungarian Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
65	Come Haste to the Wedding MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
65	Le Ballet Hollandris MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
66	Come Haste to the Wedding (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Haste, haste to the wedding
67	Miss Dove's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
67	Aurettie's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
67	Lord Cathcart's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
68	My Jackey MIDI	YES	YES	x	My Jackey is the blythest lad
69	Mear Tune	YES	NO	x	x
x	Windsor	YES	NO	x	x
x	Brunswick	YES	NO	x	x
x	Kingsbridge	YES	NO	x	x
x	108th Psalm Tune	YES	NO	x	x
x	Old 100th	YES	NO	x	x
x	Bedford	YES	NO	x	x
70	Robin Gray MIDI	YES	YES	x	Young Jemmie lov'd me well,
71	Day of Judgment MIDI	YES	YES	x	When the fierce north wind,
71	Gentle Sailor MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
71	Hob or Nob MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
71	Gavot by Correlli MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
72	There's Nae Luck About the House MIDI	YES	YES	x	Are you sure the news is true
73	Thro the Wood Laddie MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
73	Woes My Heart MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
74	Green Fields MIDI	YES	YES	x	Farewell ye green fields and sweet groves,
75	Col. Reid's March	YES	NO	x	x
75	The Lads of Bonny Time MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
75	Tweedside Variation MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
76	The Parting Lovers MIDI	YES	YES	Lyrics by Shenstone; Music by Arne	When forc'd from dear Hebe to go,
77	Livingston's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
x	When First I Saw MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
x	General Blakney's Jigg MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
x	Cherokee Chiefs MIDI	YES	NO	By H. Howard, 1762.	x
78	Sally MIDI	YES	YES	x	No nymph that trips the verdant plains,
79	Ye Fair Married Dames MIDI	YES	YES	By Dr. Arne	Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore,
80	Black Seven MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
80	Paddy Whack MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
x	Green Fields	YES	YES	See previous version	Farewell ye green fields & ye groves
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
81	Miss Leslie's Rant MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
81	An Irish Lilt MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
81	Over the Hills & Far Away MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
81	St. Patrick's Day in the Morning MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
82	The Wild Irishman MIDI	YES	NO	x	As Daphne sat beneath a shade,
83	When Blushes Dy'd MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
83	Ally Croaker MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
83	P. Loose MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
84	The Happy Pair MIDI	YES	YES	x	Ianthe the lovely, the joy of her swain,
85	French Trumpet Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
85	Minuet in Nancy MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
85	Fickle Jenny MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
85	I Love Sue MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
86	A Dawn of Hope	NO	YES	x	A Dawn of Hope my soul revives,
87	A Dawn of Hope MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
87	Royal Wedding MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
87	Nancy Dawson MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
88	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
89	I've Something Else To Do MIDI	YES	YES	x	The sun was sleeping in the main
89	Serenade MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
89	Hope Garden MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
90	Plague of Love MIDI	YES	NO	Lyrics by Whitehead; Music by Arne	Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now,
91	Over the Water to Charlie MIDI	YES	NO	By Robert Burns, 3 variations	Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er,
92	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
93	The Ladies Breast Knot MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
93	So Merrily Danced the Quakers MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
93	Flowers of Edinburgh MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
93	Colinett MIDI	YES	NO	x	As Colinet and Phebe sat
94	As Down on Banna's Banks I Stray'd MIDI	YES	YES	x	As down on Banna's banks I stray'd
95	Damon and Silvia, A Dialog MIDI	YES	YES	x	Dear Silvia no longer my passion despise,
95	Damon and Florrella MIDI	YES	YES	x	Cast my Love thine eyes around,
95	Cotillion Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
96	Fifty Fine Maids MIDI	YES	YES	x	I've kiss'd and I've prattled
97	Thro the Woods Laddie MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
97	General Handishe's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
97	Malbrook MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
98	Thro the Woods Laddie	NO	YES	x	Oh Sawney, why Leav'st thou thy Nelly
99	The Disconsolate Lover	YES	YES	x	Why heaves my fond Bosom
x	Kissing Hunting	YES	NO	x	x
100	How Much Superior Beauty Awes MIDI	YES	YES	x	How much superior beauty awes
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
101	March MIDI	NO	YES	x	x
101	Lord Cavandish's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
101	Miss Moore's Rant MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
102	Kate of Abderdeen MIDI	YES	YES	William Shield	The silver moons enamour'd beam
103	Cardeloon de Dunkirk MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
103	Captain Read's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
x	Miss Hedge's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
104	Cotillion Song MIDI	YES	YES	x	Long young Jockey toy'd and sported,
105	Pat MIDI	YES	YES	x	Let heroes boast of deeds of arms,
105	Ragged Sailor MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
105	Highland Laddie MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
105	Inconstant Fair One	YES	NO	x	How can you lovely Nancy thus cruelly slight
106	Pat (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	In her the Graces all combine,
107	Song in Thomas and Sally MIDI	YES	YES	Squire - Act I, Scene 3	When late I wander'd o'er the fields,
107	Woman MIDI	YES	YES	x	No longer let whimsical songsters compare,
108	Song in Thomas and Sally (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Yet the unkind one damps my joy
108	Woman (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	The pleasure of drinking henceforth I resign
109	The Way to Keep Him MIDI	YES	YES	x	Ye fair, possest of every charm,
109	Grano's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
110	The Way to Keep Him (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	Great is your pow'r and greater yet,
111	Lady Coventry's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
111	Colledge Hornpipe MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
112	Rule Brittannia	NO	YES	x	When Britain first, at heav'ns command
113	Rule Brittannia MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
113	To an Arbor of Woodbine	YES	NO	x	x
113	The Lowland Lads MIDI	YES	NO	Based on The Duenna	x
114	How Imperfect Is Expression MIDI	YES	YES	From Twelfth Night	How imperfect is expression
114-2	Shambuy MIDI	YES	NO	Page Misnumbering by Henry	x
114-2	The Bagpipe's MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
114-2	Shuter's Humour MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
115	Mary Weep No More For Me MIDI	YES	YES	x	The moon had climb'd the highest hill,
116	Horse Grenadier March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
116	King of France's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
116	The Tempest of War MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
116	From the Man Whom I Love MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
116	Last Monday Morning I Sail'd From Cork MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
117	Horse Grenadier March	NO	YES	x	x
118	Prince Eugene's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
118	Duke's March	YES	NO	x	x
118	The Belisle March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
118	Lady Coventry's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
118	The Battle of Culloden MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
119	Farewell to Lochabor	NO	YES	x	Farewell to Lochabor & farewell my Jane
120	Farewell to Lochaber MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
121	Rakes of Mallow (Cont.)	NO	YES	x	One time nought with claret drinking
122	Britannia MIDI	YES	YES	x	He comes, he comes, the hero comes
122	Rakes of Mallow MIDI	YES	YES	x	Beauxing, belling, dancing, drinking,
123	Since Love is the Plan MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
123	How Happy the Soldier MIDI	YES	NO	William Shield	How happy the soldier who lives on his pay,
123	The Wealthy Fool MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
123	A Rose Tree in Full Bearing MIDI	YES	NO	John O'Keefe	A rose tree in full bearing,
124	Miss Gunning's Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
124	French Minuet MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
124	Major Reed's March MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
124	Bonny Jean MIDI	YES	NO	x	x
124a	Auld Robin Gray	NO	YES	x	I laid poor Robin in the grave
125	Auld Robin Gray (Cont.)	YES	YES	x	The summer it was smiling,
126	Katharine Oggie	NO	YES	x	While Beauxs to please the ladies
127	Katharine Oggie	YES	NO	x	x
x	The Lass of Peaty's Mill	YES	NO	x	x
x	The Retreat	YES	NO	x	x
x	Lovely Nancy	YES	NO	x	x
128	Kitty Fell	YES	NO	x	x
x	Young, Healthy, Brisky and Gaily Free	YES	NO	x	x
x	When first I saw the gracefull move	YES	NO	x	x
x	Sir Charles Sedley's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
x	Dusty Miller	YES	NO	x	x
129	In Infancy	NO	YES	x	In infancy our hopes and fears
130	In Infancy	YES	NO	x	x
x	In vain I every art essay	YES	NO	x	x
x	Miss Bowl's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
132	Gavot in Thomas and Sally	YES	NO	x	x
132	All I Wish in Her Obtaining	YES	NO	x	x
132	Hearts of Oak	YES	NO	x	x
132	Young Strephon He Went	YES	NO	x	x
132	Make Haste & Away	YES	NO	x	x
133	Chorus of Hearts of Oak	YES	NO	x	x
134	College Hornpipe for the Violin	YES	NO	x	x
134	Marshall Saxes Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
134	A Plague on These Wenches	YES	NO	x	x
135	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
136	Count Saxes March	YES	NO	x	x
136	Lord Mark Kerr's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
136	Sure Sally is the Loveliest Lass	YES	NO	x	x
137	Here's to the maiden	YES	YES	x	Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen
138	Duke of Marlborough's March	YES	NO	x	x
138	Prince of Brunswick's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
138	German Spa Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
138	Bonny Broom	YES	NO	x	x
139	Come now all ye social pow'rs	YES	YES	x	Come now all ye social pow'rs
140	Bath Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
140	Ye Chearful Virgins	YES	NO	x	x
140	My Fond Shepherd	YES	NO	x	x
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
141	Jack Lattin	YES	NO	x	x
141	Tambourin	YES	NO	x	x
141	Tambourin 2nd	YES	NO	x	x
142	My Fond Shepherd	NO	YES	x	My fond Shepherds of late
143	As Blythe as the Linnet	YES	NO	x	x
143	King of Prussia's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
143	German Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
144	The Storm	YES	YES	x	When storms and clouds obscure the sky
145	Handel' Water Piece	YES	NO	x	x
146	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
147	Pease Upon a Trencher	YES	NO	x	x
147	The Wild Irishman	YES	NO	x	x
147	The Oister Wench	YES	NO	x	x
147	Wellcome Wellcome Brother Debtor	YES	NO	x	x
148	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
149	The Dorsetshire March	YES	NO	x	x
149	Lord Carmarthen's March	YES	NO	x	x
149	March in Rinaldo	YES	NO	x	x
150	Miss Hamilton's March	YES	NO	x	x
150	King of Prussia's March	YES	NO	x	x
151	The Black Joke	YES	NO	x	x
151	White Joke	YES	NO	x	x
151	Andrew Kerr	YES	NO	x	x
152	The Hermit	NO	YES	x	At the close of the day when the hamlet is still
153	The --- Glin	YES	NO	x	x
153	The Ladies Plaything	YES	NO	x	x
153	The Hens March	YES	NO	x	x
154	There Was a Frog	YES	NO	x	x
154	Love For Ever	YES	NO	x	x
154	Hermit	YES	NO	x	x
155	Bellisle March	YES	NO	x	x
155	Dear Chloe Come Give Me Sweet Kisses	YES	NO	x	x
155	Grenadier's March	YES	NO	x	x
156	The Son of Alnomac MIDI	YES	YES	x	The sun sets in night and the stars shun the day
157	From the Man that I Love	NO	YES	x	From the man that I love, tho my heart I disguise
158	The Sun was Sleeping	NO	YES	x	The sun was sleeping in the main
158-2	A Song	NO	YES	by Dr. Watts	Say mighty Lord and Teach my song
159	Dusky Night	NO	YES	x	The dusky night rides down the sky
160	The Bird	YES	NO	x	x
160	The Newflown Bird	YES	NO	x	x
160	Dick Grimstead	YES	NO	x	x
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
161	On Lucinda's Death	NO	YES	x	Who now have lost - but oh how much?
162	On Lucinda's Death	YES	YES	x	Come all ye doleful dismal cares
162	Minuet in Ariadne	YES	NO	x	x
163	Plato's Advice	YES	YES	x	Says Plato why should man be vain
164	Belsoy's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
164	Standish Psalm Tune	YES	NO	x	x
164	Southwell New	YES	NO	x	x
164	Cambridge	YES	NO	x	x
165	Echoing Horn	YES	YES	From "Thomas and Sally" Squire - Act I, Scene 2	The echoing horn calls the sportsman abroad
166	Young Corydon MIDI	YES	YES	x	Young Corydon Aminta lov'd
167	Death of General Wolfe MIDI	YES	YES	x	In a mouldering cave where the wretched retreat
168	Contented All Day	YES	YES	x	Contented all day I cou'd sit by your side
169	The Spring with Smiling Face	YES	YES	x	The spring with smiling face is seen
170	She Comes, My Goddess Comes	YES	YES	x	She comes, my goddess comes
171	White Cockade	YES	NO	x	x
172	When Maids Live to Thirty	YES	YES	x	When maids live to thirty yet never repented
173	Smile, smile Brittania	YES	YES	x	Smile, smile Brittania, smile
174	When Sawney First	YES	YES	x	When Sawney first did woo me
175	Foot's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
176	Amelia's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
176	French Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
177	Sweet Willyo MIDI	YES	YES	x	The pride of all nature
178	Tweedside MIDI	YES	NO	x	What Beauties does Flora disclose
179	Cackling Hens	YES	NO	x	x
180	Tumbling Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
180	Young Philoret	YES	NO	x	x
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
181	Never Till Now	YES	YES	x	Never till now I knew love's smart
182	God Save the Congress MIDI	YES	YES	x	God save our gracious queen
182	Free Mason's Health	YES	NO	x	x
183	Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms	YES	NO	x	x
184	Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms	YES	NO	x	x
185	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
186	Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms	YES	NO	x	x
187	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
188	Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms	YES	NO	x	x
189	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
190	The Dorsetshire March	YES	NO	x	x
191	The Fragrant Lily	YES	YES	x	The fragrant lily of the vale
192	A Tailor	YES	YES	x	A tailor I once was
193	Merry Beggars	YES	NO	x	x
193	Today let us never be slaves	YES	NO	x	x
193	All night by moonlight	YES	NO	x	x
194	A Song in The Duenna MIDI Midi of Henry's Source	YES	YES	Sheridan's The Duenna	O had my love ne'er smil'd on me
195	He That Will Not Merry Merry Be	YES	NO	x	x
195	Let Pleasure Go Round	YES	NO	x	x
196	Slow March in Bluebeard	YES	NO	x	x
196	Washington's March	YES	NO	x	x
197	The Tunefull Lark	YES	NO	x	x
197	That All Men are Beggars	YES	NO	x	x
197	There Was a Maid	YES	NO	x	x
198	Had I a Heart MIDI Midi of Henry's Source	YES	YES	Sheridan's The Duenna	Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd
199	Old Sack and Old Songs	YES	NO	x	x
199	Sure by That Smile	YES	NO	x	x
199	Britons Strike Home	YES	NO	x	x
199	Miss Loam's Minuet	YES	NO	x	x
200	He Stole My Tender Heart Away MIDI	YES	YES	"Henry" appears on page	The fields were green, the hills were gay
PAGE BKGRND	NAME	MUSIC	LYRICS	DESCRIPTIVE	FIRST LINE
201	The Airs in the Beggar's Opera	YES	NO	x	x
201	The Bonny Grey-Ey'd Morn MIDI	YES	NO	Act I Scene II	'Tis woman that seduces all mankind
201	Hither Dear Husband MIDI	YES	NO	Act III Scene XI	Hither, dear Husband, turn your Eyes.
202	To Ease His Heart	YES	YES	Overture, Thomas and Sally	To ease his heart and own his flame
203	When You Censure the Age MIDI	YES	NO	Act II Scene X	When you censure the Age,
203	If Then His Fate's Decreed MIDI	YES	NO	Act II Scene XI	Is then his Fate decreed,Sir?
203	How Cruel are the Traytors MIDI	YES	NO	Act II Scene IX	How cruel are the Traytors,
203	Pretty Polly Say MIDI	YES	NO	Act I Scene XIII	Pretty Polly, say,
204	How Sweet in the Woodlands	YES	YES	x	How sweet in the woodlands with fleet hound and horn, To awaken shrill echo, And taste the fresh morn
204	Master Tommy's Married	YES	NO	songsheet	Boys before you marry,
205	I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean Tost	YES	NO	Act III Scene VII	I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean tost,
205	A Fox May Steal Your Hens	YES	NO	Act I Scene IX	A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir,
205	No Power on Earth Can E'er Divide	YES	NO	Act II Scene XV	No Power on Earth can e'er divide,
206	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
207	Among the Men Coquets We Find	YES	NO	Act III Scene VIII	x
207	But Can I Leave my Pretty Hussey's	YES	NO	Act III Scene XIII	But can I leave my pretty Hussies,
207	Can Love be Controul'd by Advice	YES	NO	Act I Scene VIII	Can Love be controul'd by Advice?
207	I'm Bubbled	YES	NO	Act II Scene XIII	I'm bubbled.
207	How Happy Cou'd I Be With Either	YES	NO	Act II Scene XII	How happy could I be with either,
208	Blank	NO	NO	x	x
209	Tom Tinker's My True Love	YES	NO	Act III Scene XI	Which way shall I turn me?
209	Gamesters United in Friendship Are Grown	YES	NO	Act III Scene II	Thus Gamesters united in Friendship are found,
209	Thro All the Employments of Life	YES	NO	Act I Scene I	Through all the employments of life
209	What Gudgeons Are We Men	YES	NO	Act III Scene V	What Gudgeons are we Men!

ABOUT THE MANUSCRIPT BOOK

This music manuscript book of Henry Livingston, Jr.'s was given by Henry's granddaughter, Gertrude Thomas, to her nephew, William Sturgis Thomas, the same year that she gave him Henry's poetry manuscript book. The book was then given by William S. Thomas to his son, W. Stephen Thomas, and is now owned by his son, Stephen Livingston Thomas, as part of The Thomas Collection.

Since Henry Livingston's poetry manuscript passed to Gertrude Thomas from her sister Susan by accident (it was thought by Susan's daughter to have burned, but Gertrude found it in a bookcase she inherited from Susan), the poetry manuscript might have been come into Gertrude's possession in the same way. The music manuscript has Henry's son Edwin's signature on the back, and Edwin lived with his sister Susan.

There are 207 pages in the manuscript book, but only the pages above are currently prepared for inclusion in this website. The others will be added soon.

NOTES FROM MARY S. VAN DEUSEN

Transcribing Henry's manuscript has been a labor of love. My thanks to the owner of the manuscript, Stephen Livingston Thomas, my cousin, for his kindness in making it available for the enjoyment and study of researchers, as well as for those who simply enjoy Henry's world of Colonial music. For those wanting to see the pages as Henry wrote them, Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie NY invites you to visit its computer exhibit, where Henry's manuscript is available online thanks, again, to Stephen Thomas.

Paging through this manuscript was an exercise in frustration, since I hadn't touched music since choir groups in high school and college. With no instrument training, these notes just sat on the pages of Henry's manuscript, taunting me with a world that I knew would be fascinating - if I could only enter it. Thanks to David Webber's Mozart program, I found the doorway. Learning to transcribe 18th century music has been almost as exciting a journey as learning Colonial poetry with Don Foster! The music notation files included in this site exist to teach me some of the fundamentals, and I thought you might find them of interest, as well.

Finding Bar Biszick, who had worked on a master's project analyzing Henry's manuscript in 1984, led me to Mary Jane Corry, who had been Bar's teacher. And this really being the best of all possible worlds, Mary Jane was available and excited at the prospect of a huge new project. So here you will see the growing transcription of Henry's copybook as it changes day by day. With each new transcription and creation of a midi file, you'll find a new "midi" note appearing on the song in the index above. We hope you'll come back again and again to see the progress we're making on a significant, and important, piece of research into Colonial music.
Mary S. Lansing Van Deusen,
Retired computer researcher

NOTES FROM MARY JANE CORRY

18th century ornamentation symbols and ornamentation practice varied with time period in that century, and location...i.e., north Germany, south Germany, France, and Italy each had unique traditions. J.S. Bach (1685-1750) was different from his sons, Karl Ph. Emmanuel Bach, W. F.Bach, and John Christian Bach.

Mozart (1756-1791) learned from his father Leopold, who insisted on the North German tradition, but the son spent time in Italy and was influenced also by that tradition, and many people find the Mozart's keyboard works sound best if the trill begins on the main note.

So it's really up in the air. Frederick Neumann's Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music spends over 600 pages talking about the differences.

A lot of Henry's music comes from England, and ornamentation there in the 18th century is an unsolved mystery! K/P.

Bach wrote a lengthy treatise on performance, but in the end said something like "Do whatever is in good taste!"
Mary Jane Corry,
Professor Emerita at the State University of New York at New Paltz

New York Mercury
24 Oct 1774

New-York Dancing Assembly, 1774.

The subscribers are acquainted, that on Thursday next, the first assembly will be held at the usual place. If any of the subscribers to the last assembly are not called upon with the subscription book before the next assembly, or any mistake or neglect shall arise in delivering the tickets for the ladies, they will be pleased to attribute it to the shortness of thetime, and favour the assembly with their company. Tickets for the gentlemen strangers are to be left at the bar, with Mr. Hull, deliverable for the first time, to a subscriber or his order, and afterwards upon the gentleman's own application:

And should there be any neglect in sending tickets to ladies who are strangers, or do not reside in the city, their acquaintances who are subscribers, are desired to make application for them to one of the managers.

[Signed] John Jay, John Watts, jun., Henry Livingston.
Managers elected for this season.
New-York 22d October, 1774.

From The Performing Arts in Colonial Newspapers, 1690-1783)

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