The National Music of America - online book
The Sources & Factors Influential In Forming America's Music.
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the other side. The fife and drum attached to Colonel Pickering's regiment, as it marched from Salem to Lexington, April 19, 1775, played a tune called " The Black Sloven." It is preserved in an old book of manuÂscript music still existing in the Essex InÂstitute at Salem. It is as follows : |
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COL. PICKERING'S MARCH TO LEXINGTON. |
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It will be seen that neither side had much advantage in the quality of its music. |
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But the subject of national music ought not to be finally judged by the analytical tests of the technical musician. When a |
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