Music in Early America
Nancy Dawson - 18th Century

Peas Upon a Trencher - 18th Century

Bob and Joan - 18th Century

Staten Island Hornpipe - 18th Century

Durang's Hornpipe - Music During George Washington's Life

Money in Both Pockets - 18th Century

Roast Beef of Old England - 18th Century

Johnny Cope - 18th Century

Fishar's Hornpipe - 18th Century

The Revenge - 18th Century

Felton's Gavot - 18th Century

Charles Street Bank - 18th Century

Queen of Hearts - 18th Century

Pioneer's March - 18th Century
With your computer speakers turned on, please click
on any of the above to hear the music.
Maynard and Sara Johnson have given HMPF permission to add the above
tunes to this music link. The tunes are from their CD “Pass’d Times".   The
music is very appropriate for our website, for all are tunes that were
played in 18th century America.  We are grateful to Mr. & Mrs. Johnson for
allowing us to enhance our website with these charming tunes.

So that the real significance of their music is better understood, we have
asked Mr. & Mrs. Johnson to provide the following information:

Maynard and Sara Johnson perform popular music of the 18th to early 19th
century on fiddle, hammer dulcimer, recorders, flageolets, citterns, cello,
dancing master’s pocket fiddle, and sundry other instruments. We have
been researching this music for several years, and Sara produces books
of tune collections containing many of these tunes and historical
information about them. We have produced two albums with our musical
friends, who make up "Rogues' Consort", a loose-knit group of fellow 18th
century musicians. Several of us perform in 18th century attire at historical
sites and reenactments in the Midwest, or have performed at Colonial
Williamsburg, Valley Forge, and sites from Kentucky to Pennsylvania. A
consort is an old musical term for several instrumentalists playing
together, to entertain themselves, and a consort could be for large
gatherings of friends and family. This is an apt description of "Rogues'
Consort", though we won't say which of us are the Rogues.

For information about music and history in early America, see our website
at www.kitchenmusician.net.
Maynard and Sara Johnson,
playing  the recorder and  
harpsicord
In the tavern, Colonial
Williamsburg, Virginia
John Turner, Sara
Johnson, and Maynard
Johnson with cello