[AMERICAN MANUSCRIPT MUSIC]. TRACY, F[anning] (1773-1857). Manuscript Music Book. [New Haven, CT:] Yale College, July 11, 1793. Oblong 16mo. 104 pp., each hand-numbered, with manuscript music completed to p. 90. Leaves with music notes or with fair manuscript copies of lyrics of period songbook ballads. These are likely transcribed for fife or flute. Contemporary pasteboard binding.
These songs are on a variety of subjects, including one with patriotic fervor that mentions George Washington.
Condition
Binding heavily worn, scuffed, creased, hinges starting, text toned, worn, soiled, scuffed, foxed. Still, a very good example of a rare and unique artifact of post-Revolutionary War America.
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With Fanning Tracy's ownership block signature on the fp. Tracy graduated Yale in 1796. He was a teacher and farmer in Connecticut and Virginia.