Contents

• Eighteenth-century ballroom : a mirror of social change /Kate Van Winkle Keller
• American death of Harlequin : musical pantomimes in Boston before 1815 /Peter Benes
• Thomas Walter and the society for promoting regular singing in the worship of God : Boston, 1720-1723 /Alan C. Buechner
• Singing and reading : Cooper’s Public Presentation of Psalmody in The last of the Mohicans / Cheryl C. Boots
• "Village harmony" : music and popular culture in Portsmouth, New Hampshire /James Kences
• "I sing the Mason’s glory" : freemasonry and musical life in early New England /Steven C. Bullock
• "How got the apples in?" : individual creativity and ballad tradition /Edward D. Ives
• Christmas religious music in eighteenth-century New England /Stephen Nissenbaum
• Evangelical hymns and popular belief / Stephen A. Marini
• The young convert’s pocket companion and its relationship to migration patterns of American religious folk song /Emily Laurance
• The power of music enhanced by the word : Lowell Mason and the transformation of sacred singing in Lyman Beecher’s New England /Martha Dennis Burns
• Military music and the roots of the American band movement /Raoul F. Camus
• A joyful noise : "Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal" : the late-nineteenth-century New England town band /David R. Proper
• Capt. Eliphalet Grover’s "Boon island fiddle" : the folk violin in New England, 1750-1850 / Steven C. Mallory