Compiled by Robert M. Keller
Annapolis, MD: The Colonial Music Institute, 2010
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This is an index of all extant songsters published in America before 1821 and includes 35,384 songs from 621 songsters. The list was developed from Irving Lowens’s Bibliography of Songsters Printed in America before 1821 (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1976) and draws on this work for titles, locations, and other bibliographical information. Lowens defined a songster as “a collection of three or more secular poems intended to be sung.” Most of the songsters do not include music, although many contain references to the names of tunes to which the song could be sung. Many of the songsters have been microfilmed or digitized and are available through Early American Imprints Series I and II microform editions or the on-line Archive of Americana.

Sample Pages    Texts: Text Index    Names: Names Index    Bibliography: Bibliography    Song: Song

Contents: Indexes:    Texts: First lines, Titles, Burdens, Refrains, Theatre Works/Venues    Names: Performers, Authors, Composers    Bibliography: Source data & locations, with Tables of Contents User's Manual