Henry Livingston, Jr.
Music Book

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Sheridan's The Duenna

NEW SINCE 12/5/04
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

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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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