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- Title
Sarah Cunningham's Music Book: A Manuscript Collection of Music for a Young Girl of Scottish Descent in Savannah, ca. 1840.
- Authors
BAILEY, CANDACE
- Abstract
Cunningham, an uncatalogued manuscript of piano music discovered in 2005 in the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, constitutes one of very few surviving handwritten volumes of keyboard music for amateur consumption in the United States. The manuscript includes much of the music that one finds in bound sheet music collections surviving in library collections throughout the United States, but the fact that someone took the pains to copy this repertory by hand singles out this particular source. Moreover, the provenance of Cunningham has been traced through surviving documents to Charleston, SC, or Savannah, GA, ca. 1840. Other factors point to a Scottish bent among the collection. This, in turn, allows for an examination of what a young woman, Sarah Cunningham, played during this period.
- Subjects
CUNNINGHAM, Sarah; MUSIC; KEYBOARD instrument music; PIANO music; MUSICAL notation; MANUSCRIPTS
- Publication
Early Keyboard Journal, 2010, Vol 25/26, p7
- ISSN
0899-8132
- Publication type
Article