Highlights : Entertainment : Music

Subcategory Music contains 15 item(s).

	"Study by Candlelight" 1891 1995.14.03 Parlor music, and piano playing in particular, symbolized good taste and moral respectability throughout the Victorian period.
	Hitchcock Family Phonograph c. 1909 1996.12.2756 Surrounding the phonograph, the early-19th-century technological substitute for live music, are ten members of the Hitchcock family, photographed about 1909.
	John Putnam (c.1817-1895) 1870-1880 1996.29 John Putnam (c.1817-1895) of Greenfield, Massachusetts, was a well-known and accomplished musician, band leader, and dance prompter.
	Pitch pipe c. 1790 1886.17.01 Since church choir members or "singers" generally sang a capella, a pitch pipe like this one that belonged to Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, helped them to find their starting note.
	Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams Apr 11, 1807 L99.020 Twice a year students at Deerfield Academy provided a program of "speeches, declamations, dialogues, and orations" followed by an Exhibition Ball, attended by students and their guests.
	Estey Organ c. 1887 1988.23.01 Parlor organs were fashionable emblems of family and religion in the Victorian home.
	Piano c. 1805 1872.13.01 This early 19th century piano bears the label of the Italian composer and performer, Muzio Clemente (1752-1832).
	Spinet c. 1680 1872.13.02 This c.1680 spinet was made in London and is signed by the maker, Stephanus Keene.
	"Cotillion Party at Whitney Hall! In Shelburne Falls, Friday Dec 17th, 1858" Dec 17, 1858 L00.061 Cotillion dancing was a popular dance form in the 1800s.
	"Amsterdam" 1849 L00.064 This hymn, "Amsterdam", was popular in Britain and America in the 18th and 19th centuries.