Record Detail

Title:Polly Elvira Bouchell. No. 1.
Place of Publication:Salem, North Carolina
Date of Publication:1811 July 18
Sub-group:Center for Popular Music
Physical Description:1 score (64 unnumbered pages) ; 23 x 29 cm
Contents:Links open individual songs at Internet Archive.
Still the lark finds repose [First line:] Still the lark finds repose in the full waving corn : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n3/mode/2up
Fly not yet [First line] Fly not yet tis just the horn : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n7/mode/2up
When he who adores thee [First line:] When he who adores thee has left but the name : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n9/mode/2up
Hark the goddess Diana [First line:] Hark the goddess Diana calls out for the chase : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n11/mode/2up
Ah! what is the bossom's commotion [First line:] Ah what is the bossom's commotion in a sea of suspence : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n13/mode/2up
Should danger e'er approach our coast [First line:] Should danger ere approach our coast : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n17/mode/2up
Go where glory waits thee [First line:] Go where glory waits thee : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n19/mode/2up
The wounded hussar [First line:] Alone on the banks of the dark rolling Danube : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n23/mode/2up
Rise Cynthia rise [First line:] Rise Cynthia rise : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n25/mode/2up
General Moreaus march : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n27/mode/2up
St. Senanus and the lady [First line:] Oh haste and leave this sacred isle : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n27/mode/2up
We may roam through this world [First line:] We may roam through this world like a child at a feast : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n33/mode/2up
Sublime was the warning that liberty spoke [First line:] Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n35/mode/2up
I have a heart [First line:] I have a heart, a little heart, that throbs for I know who : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n39/mode/2up
To the last glimpse of Erin [First line:] Tho' the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see: https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n41/mode/2up
The Portuguese hymn for Christmas day [First line:] Hither ye faithful haste with songs of triumph : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n43/mode/2up
Hymn [First line:] Come sound his praise abroad : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n45/mode/2up
Hymn [First line:] Jesus saviour of my soul : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n47/mode/2up
Perry's victory [First line:] O'er the bosom of Erie in fanciful pride : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n49/mode/2up
Decatur's victory [First line:] Arise arise Columbia's sons arise : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n51/mode/2up
Hull & victory [First line:] Hail brave defenders of your country's cause : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n53/mode/2up
The heart should be happy [First line:] How gaily the linuet sings : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n55/mode/2up
Thy banks O tweed [First line:] Far from thy banks O tweed : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n57/mode/2up
Lady of the lake [First line:] Hail to the chief who in triumph advances : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n59/mode/2up
Is there a heart that never lov'd [First line:] Is there a heart that never lov'd / by Braham : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n61/mode/2up
Maid of Erin [First line:] My thoughts delight to wander upon a distant shore : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n63/mode/2up
[Untitled] [First line:] Let poets their mistresses praises rehearse : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n65/mode/2up
Bounding billows [First line:] Bounding billows cease your motion : https://archive.org/stream/MusicBookPollyElviraBouchell1/MUMSS-00028#page/n65/mode/2up

Subject(s):Music -- Manuscripts.
Marches.
Hymns.

Notation:Standard
Notes:1 copybook with 28 pieces including popular songs, hymns, and marches.
Inscription on cover reads, "Elvira Bouchell, Salem, North Carolina, July 18th, [18]11".
Inscription on title page reads, "Katherine A. Erwin" and "Polly Elvira Bouchell, Salem, North Carolina, July 18th 1811".
Inscriptions on page [64] read, "Miss C.R. Carson" and "Miss. E.M. Boudale".
Contents is listed on the verso.
Several hands represented in manuscript.
Title devised by cataloger from inscription on title page.
Includes flower illustrations in pencil.

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Accession No.:89-001
Item ID:MUMSS-00028
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