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Tunes in General Use

Air V.
Calemba.

Click the Mp3 button below to hear a snippet of the music played by David Kirkland Garner
https://ecda.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Air-5-Calemba.mp3

Images © British Library Board (C.E. Long Papers, Add. MS 12405, ff. 335r-341v)

The Jamaican Airs

  • Introduction
  • Author’s Notes on Music
  • Tunes in General Use
    • Air I: Johnny O’, come, my Name so.
    • Air II: Guinea Corn.
    • Air III: Untitled.
    • Air IV: Ranger.
    • Air V: Calemba.
  • Airs Used by Distinct Sets
    • Air I: Velvet Set.
    • Air II: Garnet Set. (1775)
    • Air III: Garnet Set. (1776)
    • Air IV: Golden Set.
  • African Music
    • The Myal
    • The Colymba
  • Long’s Notes on Music
  • Complete Manuscript Pages
  • Columbian Magazine Excerpt
  • Exhibit Bibliography
  • Exhibit Contributors
  • Leigh’s Companion Article Atlantic Studies

This project was created using the CERES: Exhibit Toolkit with help from the Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library.

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