TALLEY, JOHN BARRY - Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis the Tuesday Club 1745-56

Urbana, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. 0252014022; Very minor wear on the clean, sound, 'tho very slightly cocked binding. Minkor top edge soil/foxing. Contents are almost like new. ; 10-1/8" Tall, 313pp. Blue cloth, bright silver lettering. MUSIC. A volume in the series Music in American Life. "This study is divided into two sections: Part I is a detailed examination of music in colonial Annapolis, relying on contemporaneous newspapers, letters, journals, estate inventories, and, in particular, the voluminous documents that describe the activities of the Tuesday Club, a social club that flourished in the Maryland capital from 1745 - 1756. Part II is a modern edition of music composed by various members of the Tuesday Club, together with a transcripton of the manuscript book of minutes, dated 1758, belonging to the Annapolis dancing master John Ormsby. " Index. ;. Very Good- .