The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, annual proceedings, 21 through 23 June 1996.

Bibliography of studies of New England music before 1900: p. 191-203.

The eighteenth century ballroom : a mirror of social change / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- The American death of Harlequin: musical pantomimes in Boston before 1815 / Peter Benes -- Thomas Walter and the Society for Promoting Regular Singing in the Worship of God: Boston, 1720-1723 / Alan C. Buechner -- Singing and reading: Cooper's public presentation of psalmody in The last of the Mohicans / Cheryl C. Boots -- Village harmony: music and popular culture in Portsmouth, New Hampshire / James Kences -- I sing the mason's glory: freemasonry and musical life in early New England / Steven C. Bullock -- "How got the apples in?": individual creativity and ballad tradition / Edward D. Ives -- Christmas religious music in eighteenth century New England / Stephen Nissenbaum -- Evangelical hymns and popular belief / Stephen A. Marini -- The Young convert's pocket companion and its relationship to migration patterns of American religious folk song / Emily Laurance -- The power of music enhanced by the word: Lowell Mason and the transformation of sacred singing in Lyman Beecher's New England / Martha Dennis Burns -- Military music and of the American band movement / Raoul F. Camus -- A joyful noise, "sounding brass and tinkling cymbal": the late nineteenth century New England town band / David R. Proper -- Capt. Eliphalet Grover's "Boon Island fiddle": the folk violin in New England, 1750-1850 / Steven C. Mallory