Peter Beemer Music Manuscript circa 1864

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Peter Beemer Music Manuscript circa 1864

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04782

Manuscript book containing the scores of dance tunes from Warren’s Diggins, Idaho in the 1860’s. Peter Beemer, a musician with a small dance orchestra, wrote down and arranged the songs which were whistled, hummed or sung to him by various residents of the area.

0.25 linear feet; 1 item

eng,

Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6364708

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Beemer, Peter

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The first written history of the Beemer manuscript is found in a manuscript by Taylor Smith donated by Smith to the Idaho State Historical Society in 1961. Smith's history is published as an appendix in The Peter Beemer manuscript : dance music collected in the gold mining camp of Warren’s Diggins, Idaho in the 1860’s, edited by Vivian Williams (Seattle, Wash.: Voyager Recordings and Publications, 2008), which also contains transcripts of the music. Other histories are found in: The Warren colle...