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Recent Researches in American Music

James Hewitt
Selected Compositions
Edited by John W. Wagner
 
 
A 7 ISBN 0-89579-112-9 (1980) xix+106 pp. $47.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-112-2
(13-digit)
   
Through his many activities as composer, publisher, performer, and conductor, Hewitt was a major force in the concert and theater life of New York and Boston from 1795 until 1820. This volume presents a sampling of his compositions, including songs, marches, waltzes, variations, sonatas, and battle pieces.

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Contents
Advice to the Ladies; Deep in My Soul; Ho! for the Grecian Isles; Hope; How Blithly Passed the Summer's Day; In a Far Distant Clime I Have Left a Sweet Rose; Kitty Maggs and Jolter Giles; None But the Brave Deserve the Fair; On the Rock Where Hangs the Willow; Primroses; A Rural Life; The Star Spangled Banner; Sweet are the Flowers; Thou Art False as the Zephyr That Flies; Time

 To Neptune Enthroned as He Governed the Sea; The Wampum Belt; When First the Sun; The Wounded Hussar; Federal Street; Lang; The Boston Brigade March; Four Quick Marches; LaFayette's Quick Step; Three Marches; The Augusta Waltz; The New Medley Overture; Mark My Alford; A Sonata for the Piano Forte; Sonata I from Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte; The Battle of Trenton