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(MUSIC AND THEATRE.) TROTTER, JAMES M[ONROE], COMPILER. Music and Some Highly Musical People. Engraved portrait frontispiece from a daguerreotype. 353 pages of text, followed by 152 pages of printed music; thick 8vo, original deep green cloth stamped in gilt with a harp on the upper cover; re-cased with new endpapers and the original spine aid down. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1885
'Seventh thousand", the probable second or third edition of the first collection of classical music by african Americans. an important work. Includes William Brady's 'Anthem for Christmas, an 18 page work for chorus and orchestra, printed here in piano reduction with vocal parts. Other works: Andante for classical guitar by Justin Holland, the author of the first method book for guitar by an African American composer.
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