Box 116: Harvey Cockeram Music Book, 1877
Abstract
This box contains (1) book of handwritten music for waltzes, polkas, jigs, quadrilles, reels, marches, schottisches. The book is inscribed in the front cover " Febrary 5, 1877. Mr. Harvey W. Cockeram's Book, Oakland, Douglas County, Oregon." This book was donated to the Llyod Shaw Foundation in 2003 by John Anderson who knew the Cockeram family since the 1930s.
Dates
- 1877
Creator
- Cockeram, Harvey W., 1858-1909 (Person)
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Extent
1 Items : (1) flat box
Scope and Contents
Contains 33 pages of printed staves with manuscript melody lines, often with multiple dance tunes per page. The remainder of the 9 x 11.5 inch pages in the book are blank. There are no dance instructions with the music, but there are some tunes with well-known dance titles like Money Musk, Tempest, and Haste to the Wedding. The source of the tunes is not given, but some have been corrected buy a person with the initals "G.R.". As of the date on the inside cover, Mr. Cockeram would have been 19 or 20 years old.
Scope and Contents
On the first page are: Buy a Broom (a waltz derived from the German melody "O Du Lieber Augustin"), the Caledonian Quadrilles, and Midnight Hour (another quadrille). The rest of the tunes present are (in order of appearance): The Devil's Dream (quadrille), KinLock (quadrille),Irish 'Wash' Woman (quadrille), Money Musk (quadrille), Soldiers Joy (quadrille), Swiss Waltz, Life Let Us Cherish (quadrille), Tempest (quadrille), Haste to the Wedding (quadrille), Miss McLeod's Reel, Grand Opera Reel, The Real Reel, Captain Jinks (quadrille), Charley Over the Waters (quadrille), Chorus Jig, Constitution Hornpipe, The New Linden Waltz,Glen Titus Reel, [untitled] (quadrille), Shattuck's Reel, Split Wood Hornpipe, Put Me in My Little Bed, Wedding Bells Polka, The Sack Waltz, Silver Bell Waltz, Calley Polka, Lily and Violet Polka, Red White & Blue, Jenny Lind Polka, English March, Lebanon Waltz, Maxwell Polka, Big Injin Hornpipe, Melrose Schottische, Grand Military & Contra Dance Sets, Harmonic Sets, Coquette Set, Darthmouth Set, No.2 Darthmouth Set, Pick-Wick Set, Click-Pick Set, Polka Set, Douglass's Favorite, Grand Military & Contra Dance Set No. 2, No.3 Darthmouth Set, Johnny Jump Up Polka, Some One Will Miss Me While I Am Away, Crystal Schottishe, Gov. Jones' March, Buonaparte's March, Handsome Louise, Old Darkys Lament - or Uncle Ned, Mountain Maid's Invitation, Magic Flute, Beaux of Oak Hill, Liverpool Hornpipe, Durang's Hornpipe, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, Flowers of Edinburg, Lamplighter's Hornpipe, St. Clair's Hornpipe, Fred Wilson's Clog Dance, Clog Dance, Gipsy Hornpipe, Loony McTwotter, Shula Na Guira, Bardner's Reel, Oregon Hornpipe, Old Countryman's Reel, Bennett's Favorite Reel, Camptown Reel, La Napoleonienne, Detroit Schottische, Linda Polka, Norton's Best Hornpipe, Jig - Irishman's Heart to the Ladies, Jig - The Maid on the Green, La Catina, Charles Street Bath. Reel, Sam Hyde's Quickstep.
Custodial History
According to the donation letter dated March 10, 2003 included in this box, Harvey Cockerham's brother Roland (Ralph Rowland Cockerham, 1874-1955) gave this book to John Anderson with the advice to "play the music as a FIDDLER and NOT as a classical violinist."
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository