Subcategory Music contains 15 item(s).
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"Study by Candlelight"
1891
1995.14.03
Parlor music, and piano playing in particular, symbolized good taste and moral respectability throughout the Victorian period. |
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Hitchcock Family Phonograph
c. 1909
1996.12.2756
Surrounding the phonograph, the early-19th-century technological substitute for live music, are ten members of the Hitchcock family, photographed about 1909. |
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John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
1870-1880
1996.29
John Putnam (c.1817-1895) of Greenfield, Massachusetts, was a well-known and accomplished musician, band leader, and dance prompter. |
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Pitch pipe
c. 1790
1886.17.01
Since church choir members or "singers" generally sang a capella, a pitch pipe like this one that belonged to Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, helped them to find their starting note. |
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Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
Apr 11, 1807
L99.020
Twice a year students at Deerfield Academy provided a program of "speeches, declamations, dialogues, and orations" followed by an Exhibition Ball, attended by students and their guests. |
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Estey Organ
c. 1887
1988.23.01
Parlor organs were fashionable emblems of family and religion in the Victorian home. |
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Piano
c. 1805
1872.13.01
This early 19th century piano bears the label of the Italian composer and performer, Muzio Clemente (1752-1832). |
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Spinet
c. 1680
1872.13.02
This c.1680 spinet was made in London and is signed by the maker, Stephanus Keene. |
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"Cotillion Party at Whitney Hall! In Shelburne Falls, Friday Dec 17th, 1858"
Dec 17, 1858
L00.061
Cotillion dancing was a popular dance form in the 1800s. |
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"Amsterdam"
1849
L00.064
This hymn, "Amsterdam", was popular in Britain and America in the 18th and 19th centuries. |