Hall

COLLECTION: James W. Hall papers and facsimiles related to American tunebooks

LOCATION: West wall of Music Library, on top of LP shelving

PROVENANCE: Gift of James W. Hall, chancellor emeritus, Antioch University

WHEN ACQUIRED: May 2002

DESCRIPTION: Facsimiles of tunebooks and other publications about music from the period, assembled by Hall while researching his dissertation "The Tunebook in America 1800-1820" (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1967). The dissertation extends from 1800 to 1820 a bibliography of American tunebooks compiled by Allan P. Britton for the period 1780-1800.

ARRANGEMENT: Unprocessed

ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: None; correspondence may be found in the Collections files.

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