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Wilmington and the Cape Fear. Exploration and settlement ; Interest in music and other cultural pursuits -- Music in the educational system. Private academic tutors and European educators ; Private academies outside the Lower Cape Fear region ; Private academies in Wilmington and the Cape Fear region ; Free or common schools in Wilmington ; Singing schools ; Music teachers. Mrs. L. H. Whitaker ; Hermann Lawrence Schreiner ; New music teachers in 1856-57 -- Teaching materials and instruction books -- Music as a social pastime. The plantation society ; Music in "Cultured" homes. Laura Harriss Howell and the Howell collection -- The grand balls ; Dance frolics and fiddlers ; Steamboat excursions ; Music and taverns ; Dancing schools, instructors, and dance types ; Band music and musicians. Instrumental music in the eighteenth century ; Antebellum bands -- Popular songs and ballads published in local newspapers ; Folk songs in the Cape Fear region -- Music in community organizations and events. Musical societies. Whistling society ; Harmonic society ; Glee club ; Other musical organizations -- Military companies and parades ; Temperance societies ; Secret societies and fraternal groups. The John Kuners ; Masonry, music, and St. John's lodge ; The independent order of odd fellows (I.O.O.F), Wilmington lodge -- Music in community events. Washington's birthday, February 22 ; May day festivities ; May 20, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence celebration ; Celebration of the national anniversary (fourth of July) -- Other commemorative and patriotic celebrations ; Music and politics ; Other music in the community -- Music in religious life. Religious life along the Cape Fear before the "Great awakening" ; Choirs and organs in the churches ; St. James Episcopal church ; First Presbyterian church ; First Baptist church ; Other churches in Wilmington ; The slave and Christianity ; The founding of the Methodist church in Wilmington ; Afro-American religious music ; Camp meetings and folk hymnody, black and white -- Music as professional entertainment. Performance halls ; Professional concert performances. Performing families ; Swiss bell ringers ; Popular ballad singers ; Other European and American performers -- Local amateur concerts ; Music in theatrical presentations ; Eighteenth-century theatre. Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763), early American playwright and poet ; Other original dramas of or about Wilmington -- Nineteenth-century theatre. The Thalian association ; Other amateur theatrical activity along the Cape Fear -- Musical performances on the theatrical stages ; Minstrel shows -- Appendixes. Commencement, June 1855, address of J. Love -- Music teachers in Wilmington. Mr. P. Benjamin ; Miss Beze ; Mrs. Sarah Ann Cooke ; Mr. G. F. B. Leighton and associates Merrill and Browne ; Francis Maurice ; Alexander C. Miller ; Thomas Rooks ; Mr. Wall -- Works by L. H. Whitaker in Howell collection. Athalia waltz ; Cumberland polka ; Henrietta waltz ; Palo Alto waltz ; Sylph polka -- Essay "Music" ; Works composed or arranged by Hermann L. Schreiner ; Works by H. L. Schreiner in Howell collection. Adonis polka ; Cornelia waltz ; Louise grand waltz ; Loved of other years, the ; Now is the hour of parting ; Schottisch di Bravura ; Wilmington Schottisch -- Popular sacred and secular sheet music and collections in the Wilmington area arranged chronologically according to dates in newspaper advertisements and household or church inventories -- The Howell collection. Piano music: solos and duets ; Operatic excerpts ; Solo songs with piano, non-operatic ; Vocal secular and sacred collections and teaching methods ; Solo songs with guitar ; Miscellaneous bound collections and fragments. Collection A ; Collection B ; Collection C ; Collection D ; Collection E ; Collection F ; Collection G ; Collection H ; Collection J ; Collection K ; Collection L ; Piano fragments ; Manuscript collection ; Miscellaneous fragments and pieces -- Bands and band musicians. Philip Bazadier ; Wilmington's city band ; Frank Johnson's band ; The amateur brass band ; Allen's rosebud brass band ; The Wilmington cornet band ; Other Wilmington bands ; New Hanover county musicians in the confederate Army -- Complete song texts, chapter three -- Some dance instructors in the Wilmington area ; Concert performers ; Concerts listed in Wilmington newspapers ; Concert programs published in newspapers ; Theatrical and operatic performers listed in Wilmington newspapers or mentioned in other documents -- Thalian association memberships -- A chronological list of theatrical performances by the Thalian association as taken from Wilmington newspapers -- Professional theatrical performances in Wilmington, North Carolina through 1860 -- Newspaper announcements of minstrel show performances in Wilmington. |
