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Music publishers have kindly cooperated in supplying lists of music in their catalogues, and it is upon information they have sup, plied that Chapters II and III are based - the catalogues of Authentic Eighteenth Century Music in Modem Editions and of Modem Music Commemorating George Washington, or Otherwise Appropriate for Use in Washington Celebrations.
Thanks are also due to Thomas Y. Crowell Company of New York for permission to use some of the material contained in the author's book, Our American Music.
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