Malcolm, I got this from JSTOR: Early American Manuscript Music-Books
Author(s): William Dinneen
Source: The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, (Jan., 1944), pp. 50-62
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/739535

Eunice Carew lived in the typical small New England town
of Norwich, Connecticut, located up the Thames River from New
London. Town records list two Carews resident in Norwich at
this time, Joseph, a "trader", and Simeon, or Simon, who had a
book-shop and bindery near the green between I790 and i8oo.4
Since Eunice compiled at least four manuscript music-books and
seems to have been interested in books generally, it is more than
probable that she was the daughter of Simeon, the book-dealer,
and was able to copy from music sold in the shop. Three of these
books copied in her hand are hymnals, one of which5 reveals a
definite interest in "fuging" tunes of the sort made famous by
William Billings.6 The fourth volume shows an interest in secular
music, as Miss Carew carefully wrote out 47 secular texts, including
music for 9 numbers, with the music usually a melody or a melody with accompanying bass line. The title-page of this volume
is decorated with rather elaborate scroll work and boldly marked
"Eunice Carew's Song Book, Jan., 1790". Two other dates in
1792, which appear in the same hand,7 indicate that this was not
a selection gathered in haste, but rather a carefully chosen group
of secular items, each with a definite appeal for the young lady.
The procedure of setting down only occasional melodies shows
the direct influence of method but not content of the "Select Songster", known to have been in the Carew library ...

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