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The sounds of history : The making of a nation
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- Included Titles
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- Making of a nation
- White cockade
- Johnny has gone for a soldier
- Corn cobs
- Waillie, waillie
- Chester
- American hero
- Yankee notions
- Lamentation over Boston
- Toast to General Washington
- Battle of Trenton
- Ode to the Fourth of July
- President's march
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- March, Fredric, 1897-1975, performer
- Eldridge, Florence, performer
- Collingwood, Charles, performer
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
- Billings, William, 1746-1800. New-England psalm-singer
- Law, Andrew, 1749-1821. Bunker Hill
- Billings, William, 1746-1800. Singing master's assistant
- Peter, Johann Friedrich, 1746-1813. Quintets
- Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791. Toast to General Washington
- Hewitt, James, 1770-1827. Battle of Trenton
- Garnett, Horatio. Ode to the Fourth of July
- Phile, Philip, -1793. President's march
- Publication
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- New York : Time, Inc., [1963]
- ©1963
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm09954697
- Credits
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- Frederic March and Florence Eldridge, narrators ; connective passages read by Charles Collingwood ; original music composed by Virgil Thomson ; various performers in the musical selections
- Documents and music of the revolutionary period.
- Vocal works sung in English.
- Program notes by Virgil Thomson, and texts of selected vocal selections, on container.
- Music of the revolutionary period (The white cockade -- Chester / William Billings -- Johnny has gone for a soldier -- American hero / Andrew Law -- Corn cobs, or Yankee notions). Salon music (Lamentation over Boston / William Billings -- Waillie, waillie -- Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello / John Frederick Peter -- Toast to General Washington / Francis Hopkinson -- Battle of Trenton / James Hewitt). Music of the new nation (Ode to the Fourth of July / Horatio Garnett -- President's march / Philip Phile)
- Documents. Captain Amos Barrett's memoir -- Lt. John Barker's report -- John Adams to William Barrett -- Dr. Joseph Warren's statement -- Abigail Adams to John Adams -- Gen. Thomas Gage's report --Abigail Adams to John Adams -- Sgt. R--'s report -- John Adams to James Warren -- Declaration of Independence -- Tom Paine's "American Crisis" -- Sgt. R--'s report -- Surgeon Waldo's diary -- British officer's report -- George Washington to Henry Lee -- George Washington to John Jay -- Richard Henry Lee speech -- Franklin on the signing of the Constitution -- Preamble to the Constitution